the assassin guy everyone says looks like a fat moronic baby is white, his huge eyes are just normal unslitted ones. the place he lives is also the only one with earth flora and fauna like grass or birds. most of the weirder parts of the world are only mentioned once in the entire series and easy to miss
How are Brandon Sanderson’s books? I’ve never read any, but I’m impressed by his productivity, he’s on a “furry brony smash brothers + fallout fan fiction writer” level of graphomania.
Stormlight Archives is medieval capeshit, with some heavy themes of mental illnesses.
Book 1 is mid, and book 3 is a snore, but books 2 and 4 are some of my favourite pieces of fantasy.
Elantris is fricking garbage.
Warbreaker is pretty fun.
They are what you might call the essence of mediocrity. Purpose built to do X, Y, and Z. Part of it is because he is himself a fairly straightforward writer, but more recently he has - because his series has exploded into popularity - begun using committees to workshop drafts. Which makes them all feel more mechanical, much like Marvel movies did over time. Which is why people will call them capeshit. He also gets involved, sometimes far too much involved, in his magic systems, to the point where they are basically just fantasy science. He will also sometimes belabor a point so long that I just start rolling my eyes and skim reading, like some of the mental illness stuff in the most recent Stormlight book. It becomes a drag to read, and depressing in its own right.
I can acknowledge that he writes a frickload, and they are okay while being FANTASY rather than most of the Game of Thrones flavoured pseudo-historical shit that floods the genre, but he is no Tolkien, or Stephen King. He's better than Gurm or Rothfuss though.
Stormlight Archives is medieval capeshit, with some heavy themes of mental illnesses.
Book 1 is mid, and book 3 is a snore, but books 2 and 4 are some of my favourite pieces of fantasy.
Elantris is fricking garbage.
Warbreaker is pretty fun.
Elantris was his very first published novel, and it shows.
Warbreaker was his unpublished one, which also shows in the early drafts, but he released a Ute range of drafts, with annotations, and ultimately the entire book for free, and you can track how he improved as he went along. Vasher is based, frick Hoid.
it was just a fricking drag man, and boring besides, he literally just copy/paste infodumps shit from webmd. everyone also keeps backsliding into it, and i don't care if that's how mental illness really works it's dull to read the exact same arcs over and over in a story
Even I haven't read much of him, but can confirm and tldr this one:
He writes quite well, but it has no purpose or greater ideas. It's just series of events with twists that resolve some way or another. The settings are actificially made for you to think "OK, that's cool and rather unique". But it won't touch you on deeper level.
I approve of this message on all points and now understand why everything felt off with the last one. I got bored and stopped reading around the time adolin was in upside down walking justice prison and decided to just do a full reread when he drops next book.
I would say they’re above average, mediocre seems a bit low. Of all his books I’ve read I think his og mistborn was his leanest and best work, Stormlight seems to be getting a bit draggy with the fourth book, but this is not uncommon with longer series, hopefully he can get his pacing better and not so backended by the 5th. As I know it will be rough for me if I have to read another book paced like book four.
It isn't helped that his preferred style is a very, very slow build. If you're reading his books, then once you hit the last 100-200 pages it will always become a non-stop race from climax to climax, and a lot of threads throughout the book will get tied up, but actually getting to that point can take a long fricking time, even worse when it's a huge book or it's a particular slog. The latest book of his had that issue because huge long sections were devoted to exposition on how magic works with tones and colours and rhythms, which while interesting in a worldbuilding supplement is a long, heavy drag on the story progression.
They're ok-ish. Like the literary equivalent of a cheeseburger. He has a tendency to overexplain things as if his audience was too moronic to use its imagination.
Native American kid on Reservoir Dogs show would be good for Kaladin
Katherine McNamara as Shallan
Liam Hemsworth as Adolin
Someone like Vin Diesel but not Vin Diesel as Dalinar
Probably the best genre fiction out there. Cinemaphilegays will tell you it's trash but they pretend to hate all genre fiction
I think a live-action adaptation could work but the odds are stacked against it. It would need a lot of money up front, and it would require a lot of patience. Just to do TWoK would be a 20+ episode season of hour-long episodes and you also have to hope the audience doesn't get bored before any of the exciting stuff happens. Mistborn would be a safer bet all around.
It's a massive fricking shame that the most productive writer also has the worst prose and dialogue. Or maybe those concepts are directly related.
I read Mistborn, and was bored to tears. It was AI slop before AI slop, littered with cliches with dialogue that was both inauthentic AND boring. Like how redditors think people talk. I haven't read anything else from him.
His books are better to be adapted into video games. Cool ideas that can be complemented by good gameplay. But there is not much worth making a film about, it would just be cool and interesting schlock with no eternal truths being told.
Gardens of moon was originally a screenplay and reads like one, Anomader Rake is so fricking cool I'd rather it be an anime though.
Stormlight should get the League of Legends show treatment, hell it's gonna be tumblr ESGslop anyhow but BS wont let them Wheel of SHIT it
Oh God please no. Sanderson is "1 medium book of content stretched in 3 long books", but Erikson is pure undistilled shit. Tried reading it due to lockdown boredom, but I gave up after 100 pages of book 3 because reading shouldn't be painful
Not really, he uses WAAAAAAY too much foreshadowing and asspulls ("Blades are keys now, and shardblades WILL kill you... but NOT if you're important to the plot! TWEEEEST!"
does anyone else wish that instead of 'safehands' they instead had safefeet? and there were scenes were shallan had to reveal her safefeet to men and was incredibly embarrassed. perhaps even be forced to give a safefootjob
Any "guy who dies" role this guy can play?
it's not a good book. So forgettable.
Yeah if I recall there is so dickhead he could play, betray the king, and die
Indians and asians? Not how I pictured it
the assassin guy everyone says looks like a fat moronic baby is white, his huge eyes are just normal unslitted ones. the place he lives is also the only one with earth flora and fauna like grass or birds. most of the weirder parts of the world are only mentioned once in the entire series and easy to miss
>Indians and asians? Not how I pictured it
everyones explicitly some kind of asian, its like avatar the last airbender in there.
Sadeas
>basically dies offscreen
went out like such a b***h
He gets directly ganked by Adolin in a chapter, there is no off-screen about it
Sadaes
No. Hollywood ruins everything
unfilmable. The world is a muddy rock desert with weird tendril grass and every animal is a giant crab. It would be 90% CGI.
The cast also is apparently some hybrid asiatic look. They'd be all asian/indian.
But when I read it, Stannis the Mannis for Dalinar, Zachary quinto for Kaladin, Sansa stark for Shallan, marion cotillard for jasna.
You mean Sean Bean for Dalinar.
Shallan will be Zendaya, you know this.
You can get some pretty light skinned Indians in the northern regions.
hmm my name's sanderson what should i call my kid, i know, branderson
You're moronic
>Cast it
Into the fire Isildur?
How are Brandon Sanderson’s books? I’ve never read any, but I’m impressed by his productivity, he’s on a “furry brony smash brothers + fallout fan fiction writer” level of graphomania.
Stormlight Archives is medieval capeshit, with some heavy themes of mental illnesses.
Book 1 is mid, and book 3 is a snore, but books 2 and 4 are some of my favourite pieces of fantasy.
Elantris is fricking garbage.
Warbreaker is pretty fun.
They are what you might call the essence of mediocrity. Purpose built to do X, Y, and Z. Part of it is because he is himself a fairly straightforward writer, but more recently he has - because his series has exploded into popularity - begun using committees to workshop drafts. Which makes them all feel more mechanical, much like Marvel movies did over time. Which is why people will call them capeshit. He also gets involved, sometimes far too much involved, in his magic systems, to the point where they are basically just fantasy science. He will also sometimes belabor a point so long that I just start rolling my eyes and skim reading, like some of the mental illness stuff in the most recent Stormlight book. It becomes a drag to read, and depressing in its own right.
I can acknowledge that he writes a frickload, and they are okay while being FANTASY rather than most of the Game of Thrones flavoured pseudo-historical shit that floods the genre, but he is no Tolkien, or Stephen King. He's better than Gurm or Rothfuss though.
Elantris was his very first published novel, and it shows.
Warbreaker was his unpublished one, which also shows in the early drafts, but he released a Ute range of drafts, with annotations, and ultimately the entire book for free, and you can track how he improved as he went along. Vasher is based, frick Hoid.
I liked the mental illness bits though (minus Shallan's). But Shallan confronting Pattern was great though.
There's not a single example in all of fiction where "mental illness" isn't cringe. Of course, things like madness are based.
it was just a fricking drag man, and boring besides, he literally just copy/paste infodumps shit from webmd. everyone also keeps backsliding into it, and i don't care if that's how mental illness really works it's dull to read the exact same arcs over and over in a story
Robert Jordan did much better mental illness with his character PoVs than Sanderson has ever done. Most importantly, he made them engaging.
Even I haven't read much of him, but can confirm and tldr this one:
He writes quite well, but it has no purpose or greater ideas. It's just series of events with twists that resolve some way or another. The settings are actificially made for you to think "OK, that's cool and rather unique". But it won't touch you on deeper level.
I approve of this message on all points and now understand why everything felt off with the last one. I got bored and stopped reading around the time adolin was in upside down walking justice prison and decided to just do a full reread when he drops next book.
I would say they’re above average, mediocre seems a bit low. Of all his books I’ve read I think his og mistborn was his leanest and best work, Stormlight seems to be getting a bit draggy with the fourth book, but this is not uncommon with longer series, hopefully he can get his pacing better and not so backended by the 5th. As I know it will be rough for me if I have to read another book paced like book four.
It isn't helped that his preferred style is a very, very slow build. If you're reading his books, then once you hit the last 100-200 pages it will always become a non-stop race from climax to climax, and a lot of threads throughout the book will get tied up, but actually getting to that point can take a long fricking time, even worse when it's a huge book or it's a particular slog. The latest book of his had that issue because huge long sections were devoted to exposition on how magic works with tones and colours and rhythms, which while interesting in a worldbuilding supplement is a long, heavy drag on the story progression.
Name of the wind was fricking awful.
They're ok-ish. Like the literary equivalent of a cheeseburger. He has a tendency to overexplain things as if his audience was too moronic to use its imagination.
>food analogy
>for fricking books of all things
you must not read a lot of books if you think it isn't valid
>He has a tendency to overexplain things
reminds me how every novel is literally a 1000 pages and I can never remember what happens
they are airport novels without the selfawarness necessary to make them work
Native American kid on Reservoir Dogs show would be good for Kaladin
Katherine McNamara as Shallan
Liam Hemsworth as Adolin
Someone like Vin Diesel but not Vin Diesel as Dalinar
Probably the best genre fiction out there. Cinemaphilegays will tell you it's trash but they pretend to hate all genre fiction
Dalinar has a wide range of emotion so Vin ain't it.
Cast Vin as the stormfather though...
I don't think a live adaptation would do it justice. But a video game based on the IP could be good like the other anon above said.
I recently finished oathbringer and there were some kino moments but words of radiance was the best so far.
Sando has said that that is designed to feel like a marvel style Avengers team up and each book is focused on one of the new 10 heralds aka Avengers.
I think a better series to adapt for live action would mistborn era 1. The kandra would be sick on screen.
I think a live-action adaptation could work but the odds are stacked against it. It would need a lot of money up front, and it would require a lot of patience. Just to do TWoK would be a 20+ episode season of hour-long episodes and you also have to hope the audience doesn't get bored before any of the exciting stuff happens. Mistborn would be a safer bet all around.
It's a massive fricking shame that the most productive writer also has the worst prose and dialogue. Or maybe those concepts are directly related.
I read Mistborn, and was bored to tears. It was AI slop before AI slop, littered with cliches with dialogue that was both inauthentic AND boring. Like how redditors think people talk. I haven't read anything else from him.
Mistborn was his babby's first series and is pretty classically shit, same as Elantris. He did improve over time.
It's basically Young Adult material, so easy to consume and not think too hard about it. It's the McDonalds of the Fantasy genre.
Sorry, I flushed the perfect person to play the role down the toilet this morning.
His books are better to be adapted into video games. Cool ideas that can be complemented by good gameplay. But there is not much worth making a film about, it would just be cool and interesting schlock with no eternal truths being told.
Film it.
Kruppe prounced (Cruh-puh) and not Kroop in audiobook made me sad, read Gardens lst month and Deadhouse gates drastic imporvement on a 7/10 fun read
LITERALLY impossible without dumbing it down and without tens of billions
Gardens of moon was originally a screenplay and reads like one, Anomader Rake is so fricking cool I'd rather it be an anime though.
Stormlight should get the League of Legends show treatment, hell it's gonna be tumblr ESGslop anyhow but BS wont let them Wheel of SHIT it
Oh God please no. Sanderson is "1 medium book of content stretched in 3 long books", but Erikson is pure undistilled shit. Tried reading it due to lockdown boredom, but I gave up after 100 pages of book 3 because reading shouldn't be painful
I'm halfway through Way of Kings
does it ever get good? so far it's just misery porn for Kaladin
Kaladin will go through far, far more misery porn. And stupid moments. And occasionally some great moments.
But Dalinar and Adolin are the ones you should be keeping up with. They have the better plot.
The ending chapters are pretty good
Not good enough for me to read the rest of the series though
You're gonna hit page 650 before anything exciting happens. The ending pays off though in my opinion.
thats pretty much every book, first half is unremarkable slop but the last 1/3 makes it all worth it.
Not really, he uses WAAAAAAY too much foreshadowing and asspulls ("Blades are keys now, and shardblades WILL kill you... but NOT if you're important to the plot! TWEEEEST!"
>and shardblades WILL kill you... but NOT if you're important to the plot! TWEEEEST!"
That never happened though
All I want a Mistborn video game so I can coin jump, is that too much to ask?
i want to not cry when i think of the original crew in book 1
the girl that played domino in deadpool 2 as vin in mistborn the well of ascension
just a minor gender swap.
Jews loathe this man so you're never getting a high budget adaptation
does anyone else wish that instead of 'safehands' they instead had safefeet? and there were scenes were shallan had to reveal her safefeet to men and was incredibly embarrassed. perhaps even be forced to give a safefootjob
arent most of the important characters brown with clear eyes and colorful hair
its going to look ridiculous on film
yeah. But a Sanderson anime would work.
cast him
Kevin Spacey
isn't that the homosexual who ruined WoT ending and opened the doors to SJWs to completely destroy the WoT community?