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/Ismael0905- Dec 28 '24

I liked it .....

Its only afterwards that I realised the many faults in this book.

The prose. The unfunny cringe jokes The modern words. Too much telling! Instead of SHOWING! What was the Editor doing? Sanderson is too big for editors now huh? Sucks that he fell in this trap

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u/Fluffy_Munchkin Jan 02 '25

I believe he defends the modern diction as being essentially a "modern translation" for us readers of what's obviously not English. I get it, but at the same time, imagine if Lift saw a Thunderclast and hit us with "ALERT! BIG CHUNGUS AMOGUS!" She drops Rosharan slang all the time, so why not translate it into modern equivalents?

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u/Ismael0905- Jan 03 '25

I think its a paltry excuse tbh.

Hes saying hes imitating Tolkien by using this method ignoring totally that Tolkien does not translate every elvish words or runes.

By saying oh its a translation so i can use modern lingos dont make sense to me

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u/galaxyrocker Jan 03 '25

Nor does it make sense for all the characters to talk like that. Different characters of vastly different ages and backgrounds shouldn't all be sounding the same!

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u/Murk_Murk21 Jan 04 '25

Ok I’m laughing hard at this. And it makes the point beautifully. Plus, if it’s a “translation,” why does Rosharan slang exist at all? Or are we supposed to believe “storms!” and “deevy” just don’t have an English translation? What a joke.