touch foxglove NOW I really don't know anything about this author (I read one of his books when I was younger and that's it) BUT I do know that a seething WIRED journocel wrote a very angry expose about how he is an neurodivergent and a total loser for various ill-defined reasons (didn't read). RDrama post here (if ur wondering why it says "heeheehaahaa" so much, its because the post author was chudded when he wrote it 
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Basically, the WIRED journo hates the fact that BrandoSando...
has an air of confidence
made the author drive all the way from SanFran
is resistant to pain and refuses pain medication
anywho, BrandoSando fires back very gently. I thought it was well-written, if a bit mopey. It also makes the journo look like a complete butthole without focusing on the journo himself, which is amazing.
Summary:
Brando relates his experiences as being an "outsider", due to his faith and general autism
Brando explains that his numbness to pain is probably a result of his autism
Brando says that he doesn't want sympathy for this.
He says he writes because he feels things when he writes.
He is against "gatekeeping"
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Book 4 really disappointed me. I will stick around for book 5. I’ve got no clue how he plans to wrap things up in the literal 10, in-universe days, he has to do it. Curious to see how it goes down. It seems impossible without some real shenanigans. The pace of these last few books has been disgustingly slow. Maybe he will figure it out tho. Hopefully!
Book 5 is supposed to be the finale to this arc. He’s got another 5 books planned that are supposed to be a different arc. If this book 5 is trash, i might just be done.
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Book 4 was the most
thing possible, where he completely abandoned the fairly compelling conflict he'd spent three books building in favour of 
world building at the reader to establish a cinematic universe. Which really annoys me because he is a pretty good author otherwise, as far as fantasy authors go.
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I can forgive some of it because the idea of an MCU fantasy universe is interesting on its own (I can’t think of another author who attempted it) . I agree that It’s a shame we have to sacrifice the interesting plot he’d been working for (I thought book 3 was already losing a ton of steam).
The more problematic parts of book 4 are the fricking interminable flashbacks with those horrendous parshendi characters. Jesus Christ man, no one gives a shit. Then he shakes salt into the wound with a terrible scientist plot line, rehashes the kaladin suicide arc (payoff on that was cool but it was cool the last couple times u did it Brando!) . Disappointing!
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honestly if shallan didn't exist it would be a top series. Way of Kings unironically is 10/10 for me cause shallan is barely in it and when she is she is fairly normal. Next books have great moments but overall nothing comes close to the overall consistency of way of kings.
IMO just wait for next mistborn series set in more modern times.
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I wanna read #5 but I genuinely can't remember shit from book 4 besides something about magic whistling into glass spheres
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