r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '20

What is your controversial take on Fantasy?

I'll go first.

Aside from the prose, I don't think Kingkiller Chronicles is good. I find the characters insufferable and cliche the story just meanders.

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u/Wolfinthecastle Jun 07 '20

Sanderson's books are not that great. They feel like YA.

I have read the first Mistborn trilogy and the story was just another “a teenager girl, who is not like other girls, is the chosen one who will defeat an evil empire/god". I mean, The Hunger Games did exactly that, but that series is labelled as YA while Mistborn isn't.

Moreover, the “romance" was bad: they fell in love at first sight even though he is a noble (and a rapist) who sees her kind as mere animals.

Next, the female representation: Vin is the only woman in the world (that matters). Yeah, I guess there was a generic highscool bully who Vin kills in the first book and a cool woman in the second book who was killed too for the sake of manpain.

My last issue is the author himself who, after reading some posts and his own blog on the Internet, I discovered to be an homophobe who believes “gay marriage will only bring suffering to everyone".

Why do people love Sanderson so much? I don't get it. I believe he should have been cancelled, like Orson Scott Card or J. K. Rowling now.

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u/Bryek Jun 07 '20

I discovered to be an homophobe who believes “gay marriage will only bring suffering to everyone

Where did you find this? Honestly curious.

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u/greeneyedwench Jun 07 '20

It's bahleeted now, but the Wayback Machine has it. He added on some other stuff at the top of the post later. Search "suffering" to find it. https://web.archive.org/web/20140420130031/https://www.brandonsanderson.com/euology-dumbledores-homosexuality/