"I waited 7 years to read this book. 7 years. And I am not going to finish it."

Can't speak to it getting redditier or whatever, but I used to read a lot of Sanderson until Stormlight book 4 was so ungodly slow and boeing it totally killed my interest in his work. A good five hundred pages of fricking nothing happening at all.

Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon author that specializes in writing fantasy for people that believe video games are art

like bread scraped over too much butter.

"I'm more put off by gays!"

"No, I'M more put off by gays!! That makes me da alpha!!!"

I have no point to make other than my disgust reaction to people becoming incontinent from random shit in my preferred flavor of worldbuilding wank

I remember I was talking to a woman once and she tried to shill Sanderson to me and was talking about how all of his characters go to therapy or whatever and I was like "darn that sounds worthless."

Its not just the chuds though. Pretty much all of book Reddit dislikes the book, including Sanderson's own subreddits. Pretty much all the book-youtubers dislike/hate the book. These are people who're almost all very liberal, who made their careers in large part through sucking Sanderson's peepee.

It's gotten so bad that Sanderson has had to come and defend the book on Reddit.

Also reading through the complaints it doesn't really seem focused on chud-adjacent things. People aren't complaining about the progressive elements existing, they're complaining about how awfully incompetently and boringly they're handled.

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I enjoyed the one Sanderson book I read.

It got progressively more obvious with each new book

Is this a pun?

>holy heck I've invested so much time in this garbage

Me reading Black House

Took two attempts to finally finish it.

I'm going to blow your minds here. All fantasy is trash, and all for the same reasons, which go back all the way to the grandfather of the genre, Lord of the Rings.

1. All fantasy novels try to tell an epic story involving multiple groups of people working toward a common goal. You think this sounds ok if all you read is sci fi or fantasy, or you don't ordinarily read at all, so you want your books to resemble your favorite TV series. For visual media, or anything episodic, it's necessary to have a cast of characters doing different things, and to switch between points of view to keep the audience engaged, but it isn't nearly as common in fiction, where your audience should be expected to have the attention span to follow a single point of view for a few hundred pages. Even great TV shows like Twin Peaks suffer from their multiple points of view by having at least one group of people who are clearly the show's B-squad (Donna and her idiot motorcycle boyfriend in the case of Twin Peaks). Every single fantasy novel ever written (even Lord of the Rings) has huge swaths of pages where you start asking yourself "why am I reading about this butthole? where is the main character?". It's the number one crime of all fantasy as a genre.

2. Fantasy novels love extraneous characters. A sane author of fiction will not name a character unless this serves a purpose, either because their name is significant to the plot or because they're going to appear multiple times throughout the story. It's along the same lines as that rule that you shouldn't show a gun in a movie unless it's going to be fired at some point. Why are you telling me that the waiter's name at the local tavern is Bradigar or whatever? Who the frick cares? Fantasy authors think you need to know everyone's name because they are all neurodivergent and they think more irrelevant things to memorize makes the world deeper and more three dimensional. They are confused and believe an abundance of pointless details is what makes a story complex, instead of characterizing only important people through their thoughts and dialogue like a real author.

3. Fantasy authors think they can rely on all the tropes created before them, copying every single one of them, yet somehow they're going to do it better. Let's be fair and leave out the stuff that is lifted from LOTR, which was published like 80 years ago. How about fantasy battles among armies, a key component of just about every fantasy novel, and not something Tolkien spent a lot of time on. Pick up a history book and read about how Alexander the Great and/or Julius Caesar fought battles, and if you haven't done so before, a light bulb should go off over your head as you notice that every single battle fought in any fantasy novel is based on like 4 or 5 battles those two fought in real life.

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I read one Sanderson's books (it was suggested to me) and it was probably the blandest thing I've ever read. Every character was a trope and none of them were interesting in the slightest. And the main character had zero personality outside of being whiny and sad

The funniest shit was mormons and christians attacking him for saying maybe gays can be loved after all as is he was the great satan.

His pros are slock and his editor needs to beat him more. There are some scenes that hit, and there are scenes that are fricking cringe, like kaladin being a thearpist and shit

I read the sunlit man because one of the characters from the book was the lead in it, and it was alright.

The good parts of sanderson is a willingness try. And he does try. And fricking fail sometimes.

I read the first stormlight book when i was in middleschool, and it seemed deep then, but as an adult ...

Hes writing like 1000 paged books that are supposed to be epic fantasy, so sometime it sucks. Ive read worse, and ive read better but if i wanted great pros i dont dont id be reading fantast slop.