/lit/ - Literature

>>18434355
Not them, but there used to be heated, like borderline thread eating fights over how bad Sanderson is.

I'm in the boat of Snadseron is actually delusional. Pic related.

>>16035853
Hey anon, have a little treat.
Go onto Goodreads and look at Stormlight Archives books 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10.
>But they're not out yet-
People have already given them 5/5s.

Most people don't read Sanderson because they like his work.
They read his work be because he's popular.

>>15972533
Yes, the Shallan chapters.
I don't understand how he went from writing Mistborn with an okayish FeMC to le epic intelligent girl.
Also, isn't that pretty late into the book too? It feels like the editor just gave up at some point between the end of Part 2 and it's interludes.
It still makes me wonder how he was never mocked publicly for writing pic related when Way of Kings is riddled with below YA-level writing.

How the fuck - I am asking this with total sincerity - Can Sanderson write a book with 435k words; and not do the most basic editing, cutting of chaff or just simple reordering of sentences?
And even then, why is his lack of writing-talent not commented on more?

I thought I was being nit-picky when I noticed the constant passive voice, but fuck me, there are some craft issues here that I'd expect a Middle Schooler to make, and it's in a published work.
It felt like I was reading 'And then, and then, and then, and then, and then...' for the past 500 pages.
There's no image, there's nothing but words telling you what shit looks like, I can't see the things he writes.
His character's, bar one - and go figure it's the one that the normies dislike - are so fucking cringeworthy that I'm surprised that it's touted as 'serious' fantasy by so many people.
His animu fight scenes aren't even good. They feel bloated as fuck, and frankly boring to read.

He can teach, whatever that's fine. He might be a nice enough guy irl, got no problem with the dude.
But I just don't see the charm. Alarm bells rang when I read his blog posts to understand his thought process - like, surely something must've gone wrong - and it was just a fucking mess.
I needed to vent, my reading circle seriously gets upset when their idol is given any sort of criticism.