Depend what you read, Sanderson is very uneven writer in terms of technique, but what draws people to him is rather his originality than his workshop. For example, i think his highest acclaimed series, the “Mistborn” is boring (still original but boring), first book have incredibly tedious action scenes and later ones while fixing it to large extent, don’t manage to fit in something good instead so it’s the same words but spreaded. On the other hand, Stormlight Archives, while much more wordy, are for me one of the best series i read lately. I also love his early single books, Elantris and Warbreaker. Also The Rithmatist, his version of scholomance genre, but better than anyhing i read in it. Lately in Poland they been publishing Skyward and its continuations but i think it absolute crap, his worst book.
I also hate Wheel of Time, Jordan was third rate scribbler who can’t make interesting characters and instead is flooding readers with his sexual frustrations.
I am willing to give him another go. Maybe my issue comes from two places:
I took a break from WoT (can’t blame him for dying, I suppose) and picked up the first Sanderson book a few years later. Maybe it was Jordan’s writing that I disliked as I had matured. I was also pissed off that I would have to wade through two more books of this shit. I don’t think I finished even the first finale book.
Curious as to whether the problem was Jordan leaving a mess of notes or whether the problem was Sanderson, I picked up Mistborn. I gave it a good go. I have a rule not to dismiss books before 50 pages (sometimes I forget them after fewer, but that’s because I get busy and intend to go back later), but for this one I gave it a hundred pages or so.
Thanks for the recommendation. Tbh, I hear such good things about him that I have wondered what I was missing. So I’ll give a few of his other series/novels a go.
Depend what you read, Sanderson is very uneven writer in terms of technique, but what draws people to him is rather his originality than his workshop. For example, i think his highest acclaimed series, the “Mistborn” is boring (still original but boring), first book have incredibly tedious action scenes and later ones while fixing it to large extent, don’t manage to fit in something good instead so it’s the same words but spreaded. On the other hand, Stormlight Archives, while much more wordy, are for me one of the best series i read lately. I also love his early single books, Elantris and Warbreaker. Also The Rithmatist, his version of scholomance genre, but better than anyhing i read in it. Lately in Poland they been publishing Skyward and its continuations but i think it absolute crap, his worst book.
I also hate Wheel of Time, Jordan was third rate scribbler who can’t make interesting characters and instead is flooding readers with his sexual frustrations.
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I am willing to give him another go. Maybe my issue comes from two places:
Thanks for the recommendation. Tbh, I hear such good things about him that I have wondered what I was missing. So I’ll give a few of his other series/novels a go.
Go for Elantris first. It’s his novel debut and it’s really most in character. Still my favourite book of his.
Also adding to previous post he did wrote pretty decent young adult postapocalyptic superhero trilogy Calamity-Firefight-Steelheart.
That’s where I’ll start, then. Thanks.