i know he's not a great writer but how do you fumble a story this badly?
low standards and deadlines
>book five of The Stormlight ArchiveAnd these books are supposedly thousands of pages long? And there's FIVE more on the way?How the fuck do people enjoy this shit? Good grief, at least The Lord of the Rings was only like a thousand pages long just for that one story. Can't imagine reading ten thousand pages of fantasy that isn't even well-written.
>>25378328I used to drive 3-5 hours a day and would burn through dogshit like the OP on audiobook quickly.
>>25378338Yeah and I bet you were listening on 2.5x speed.
I don't think I've ever actually held a physical book lol
>>25378342Obviously lol sometimes 3 iirc. It's slop, I'd get bored between words otherwise.
>>25378343Sorry wrong thread.
>>25378343>>25378345Kys. I really like audiobooks, personally, but holy shit you could be listening to such more edifying texts.
>>25378349Uhh not when I'm working 10-12 (counting driving) hours a day and depressed, no. The point of it was idle entertainment to distract me from how miserable things were.
>>25378349I care more about learning proper writing and story structure not your pseudophilisophical drek. That's why I read Sanderson.
>>25378354Based alert
>>25378354>Brandon Sanderson>proper writing Lol?
>>25378354There is a middle ground it's not like you can only choose from something very poorly written like the bible and Sanderson
>>25378362Compared to the average bibli/philitard it may as well be the Sistine Chapel ceiling
>>25378365>>25378368Thank you retarded ESL.
Every time I see Sanderson posted about it's just blind shitting on him with zero context. I've read enough of him to know he's likely more popular than he deserves but the way fags on this board post about him makes it seem like they hate him just because he's so popular.
>>25377451How speciality seems to be in a very narrow part of world building: monster creation. He's very good at making interesting monsters. When you go in to it looking forward to the beasties you don't get disappointed, but when you're looking for a payoff from a twist or turn it's a bit above average most of the time. Enough to feel like a twist. At least it's generally sticking to adventure themes.
>>25377451No one in the thread is talking about the failing of that specific book.
>reading Stormlight Archive series>"Ooh, new book just dropped">it's 1,300 pages of shit>"Well, maybe the next one will be better" I couldn't possibly handle it.
Tried listening this series for mindless entertainment, but it wasn't even good for that. It was tedious and not fun. Unironically what do people enjoy about it?
>>25378354Nigga thats not your first round pick bro be fr right now
>>25377451How do you even get that far? I couldn't make it through two chapters of the second mistborn book.
>>25380250Listen while driving seems to be the most common piece of advice.
>>25379118stormlight 1-3 are very good booksmistborn first trilogy is entertaining stormlight 4-5 and mistborn trilogy 2 are preachy indulgent slopfest YA-tier self-help books masquerading as genre fiction
>>25380631stormlight 2 is the worst book of that mediocre series, anon. Only one I dreaded getting through.
>>25379118>with zero contextSomeone post the "I'm his therapist" passage.
>>25380641Did you not read Wind and Truth?
>>25379118My main issue with these books, and the reason I don't like them despite havinglistened to most of the cosmere stuff, is that nothing happens for 95% of the fucking book, and then everything happens all at once at the end.He sets upt he status quo at the start of it, does nothing exceot "Character work" for the whole book, setting up things, and then it all happens in like 5 minutes.>>25380645I did. I stand by book 2 was the worst.
>>25378353keep honking, then
>>25378354fat and smelly take, buy sandals for the incoming gout
>>25378338>OP on audiobook quickly.>>25378345if you are listening at 3x how would someone read it at 3x? its such a stupid comment. You act like its fast but you are fast forwarding through it. A reader cant do that.
I have various issues with Sanderson. They mostly come down to him being a massive industry plant, his actually awful prose, which just summarizes the plot. His rabid fanbase of cock sucklers that think he actually invented things like ""hard magic"" systems when they've existed in Eastern literature and religions for three thousand years. He also writes with MCU dialogue and "movie epic cinematic moments." Like when Rand uses the True Power in the Gathering Storm he literally thinks>I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN REEEEEin all caps and then channels it. Complete cringe. That said, he does know how to write good hype moments. Perrin vs. Slayer in Tar Valon and Lan vs. Demandred were great.
>>25382006>A reader cant do that.1), some can 2), who cares? I don't think anyone should read Sanderson or any of the other slop (mostly wh40k novels) I was listening to. But if they must, best as low effort background noise.
>>25378345>3x times speed>audiobookWhy even bother at all at that point?
Someone told me about this guy and I proceeded to read about 15 pages of one of his books. I got the overwhelming sense that I was reading the writing of a retarded Mormon. It felt like the knowledge of him being a big fat Mormon was being beamed directly into my brain. I closed the book, looked it up, and there it was. Brandon Sanderson is a big fat dumb Mormon who sucks at writing. Sometimes you just have to trust your intuition I guess.
>>25379118Here is your context, bro.
>>25383479This is written like a shitty romance novel without the romance.I don't care how anyone tries to defend him. Everything he writes is YA trash. No he did not mature after The Wheel of Time
>>25382902The actual content/meaning of his writing is so sparse that nothing is lost. It's popcorn, you're supposed to stuff it in your mouth if you eat it at all.
>>25380307I was listening at work. Switched to Shannara and actually enjoyed what I was listening to.
>>25384432It's like popcorn without salt or butter.
>>25383479Jesus Christ. This reads like a podcast
>>25378328originally it was supposed to be 10 but I think he got it down to 7-8. I dropped it at the third one though, that book sucked.
His writing is almost the same as andy weir and the dungeon crawler carl asshole.
>>25378328my job involves a lot of time looking out a windows doing pretty much nothing without giving a lot of details, so these type of books are great for audio in my case
>>25378342in my case I've found my sweet spot at 1.7x, it's fast enough but not too fast
>>25380631>mistborn first trilogy is entertainingI guess you're 13
>>25383479Tbh that was cringekino until the Reddit moment where the buildup was entirely undercut.“Nothin personnel” type prose has… a certain appeal. Self-aware millennial prose? Fuck off.
*spins and raises an eyebrow*
>>25377451I wouldn't be surprised if this gets a revised edition, since Sanderson more or less conceded all of the criticism. He keeps getting worse and I cannot imagine another 5 books on the level of Wind and Truth.
