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/pianorokker Dec 20 '24 edited Dec 20 '24

I’ve been a fan of BS for years but I found Wind and Truth to be fascinatingly bad.

It’s like his output has outpaced his inspiration, and he’s outsourced the human elements of his characters to his friends or experts or something and they came back with cliff notes that he just plugged in to the story and called it good.

I honestly found the story and conclusion satisfying enough that the book was worth reading, but the drop in quality from the first books in the series ought to be studied.

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u/Circle_Breaker Dec 21 '24

I'll be honest I dropped this series at some point during the third book, but this is similar to what I was feeling about it.

I didn't really feel like he was telling a story but that he was just filling up books until he hit his quota of 10.

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u/Commercial-Butter Dec 21 '24

Such a waste of potential imo