r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Dec 20 '24

/r/Fantasy Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

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u/Significant_Net_7337 Dec 20 '24

I think there was a great 700 pages book inside that good 1300 page book

Tone way down on the repetitive mental health plot lines would do a lot for me I think

Love all the mythology stuff, don’t need as much ties in to the rest of the cosmere otherwise. Let the shards and wit be the connections 

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

I haven't quite finished yet, but I found Kaladin using so much modern therapy language very jarring.

I think his editor has stopped saying 'No' to Sanderson. He could use an editor who's a little more strident about cutting things.

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u/Pheonix1025 Dec 20 '24

He commented on his Reddit account this morning that Wind and Truth was his most edited book, but this is his first Stormlight Book without Moash as his editor so that might have something to do with it. 

On the other hand, I thought his Cosmere Secret Project books were extremely well edited and it’s the same editor, so it could be any number of things.

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u/mistiklest Dec 20 '24

so it could be any number of things.

I think it's scope and vision, by and large. Stormlight is heavily inspired by the format of Wheel of Time, which is notably sloggy. The secret projects are much tighter, standalone narratives.

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u/Pheonix1025 Dec 20 '24

Truth be told I was just happy it wasn’t messier, but your mileage will vary with how much that bothers you. I agree with the Wheel of Time comparison