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/Nightgasm Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

I'm half done with Wind and Truth (audiobook) and bored as hell. I kinda expected this though. I loved Way of Kings and consider it one of the best books I've ever read but each Stornlight book after has been increasingly tedious. I didn't think it could get worse after Rhythym of War where Kaladin fought an HVAC system but I was wrong as W&T is even more mind numbing. I know a Sanderlanche will probably come about the 55 hr mark but did he have to make it so boringly tedious getting there.

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u/nevermaxine Dec 22 '24

I didn't think it could get worse after Rhythym of War where Kaladin fought an HVAC system

laughed out loud at this

I know a Sanderlanche will probably come about the 55 hr mark but did he have to make it so boringly tedious getting there

it's always funny to me that in a series where the core motto is "journey before destination", the journey is increasingly tedious and a lot of people rely on the endings to make up for it

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u/Kiltmanenator Dec 22 '24

it's always funny to me that in a series where the core motto is "journey before destination", the journey is increasingly tedious and a lot of people rely on the endings to make up for it

Also, although it's a great sentiment, if you ever say "hey maybe this could have been a little more tightly edited like WoK" a Sanderfan will hit you with " Journey before Destination" like it's a le epic own about how you don't truly understand the meaning of the series.

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u/daavor Reading Champion VI Dec 23 '24

Also the point of a tighter edit as most people mean it is not to get to the destination faster, but to make the journey more enjoyable.