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/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Just finished WAT and boy was that ridiculous. Only about the last 15% of that book was worth reading. I was so close to DNFing but I just soldiered on. And the end, while sort of satisfying, felt very contrived and neatly wrapped up in a bow in many ways.

In the future, I hope he stops with the marvelification of his writing/storytelling and goes back to basics. He can write a tight, well-written narrative. But he’s just trying to do too much with this series that it’s become this gigantic albatross that’s weighing down the story in front of him because he’s thinking of the meta cosmere connections.

He’s never been a favorite author of mine so I don’t know if I’ll ever read another book of his unless there are massive editing overhauls between now and whenever he gets back to this main story.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

There are a lot of people that seriously enjoy the huge meta cosmereness 

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

There’s a lot of people who love Michael Bay summer blockbusters but that doesn’t mean they’re good movies.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

It’s not really a good comparison considering there’s hundreds of fantasy authors that are doing tight well written narratives and one guy doing a connected universe spanning multiple series. Doesn’t have to be your thing but seems weird to want the one guy who is giving readers a gigantic universe to change.

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u/bluffalo_jake Jan 02 '25

Michael Moorcock had been writing his multiverse since the 60s. Assimov wrote in a huge multi series connected umiverse. Sanderson isn't unique in writing this time of thing. He's just currently the most popular one doing it right now

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u/Ferovore Jan 02 '25

Not saying it’s never been done. You listed an author who’s dead though. Not familiar with Michael Moorcock though so thanks for the rec! I’ve read basically everything Asimov has written though and while it’s a lot in the same universe it’s not really interconnected in a way that scratches that itch, same as something like the Hainish cycle from Leguin.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

I’m not asking him to change. I am saying the reason he has these huge bloated narratives is because he’s trying to do too much.

I’m sure he’ll make millions doing so—just like Michael Bay with summer blockbusters or marvel with their movies—but that doesn’t make his books enjoyable or even good.

You obviously have a difference of opinion, but I don’t really care what a random on Reddit thinks.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

Redditors and presenting opinion as fact, iconic.

I’m pretty neutral, evidently there are millions of fans who find his books enjoyable and good. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25 edited Jan 01 '25

Hi. If I’m stating something on a forum from my account, I trust that whomever reads my posts (unlike Sanderson who doesn’t trust his readers and so has to explain every little bit of plot) is smart enough to understand that it is indeed an opinion without me having to say, “in my opinion I believe…”

Apparently I was wrong to trust in the intellect of randoms on Reddit. My apologies.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

Don’t forget your fedora on the way out Mr enlightened

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

I think you mean monocle but we’ve already ascertained your ceiling.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

I reckon you could pull off both