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I was told that this was Brandon Sanderson's best book, but boy does it take its sweet fucking time getting to the actual plot. The whole thing felt like if Tolkien decided to have Frodo dick around in the Shire for the entirety of Fellowship of the Ring with some cutaways to Aragorn dicking around in Bree, Legolas dicking around in Mirkwood and Gimli dicking around in the Lonely Mountain before ending the book with Gandalf revealing the true nature of Bilbo's ring to Frodo as a twist. I'm into the second book now and it still doesn't feel like the actual plot has started yet. Going with the Tolkien analogy, it's like if he waited a good chunk into The Two Towers to actually form the Fellowship and start the quest of the ring.

It might not be so bad if Sanderson hadn't made it abundantly clear that the Shattered Plains is just a pointless forever war that the Alethi's sociopath nobles are using to enrich themselves. I cannot be made to care about this war while both knowing and being reminded constantly that it is a senseless bloodletting. And so far, every time the it seems like the plot is actually going to get started, it trips itself up. Is Kaladin going to lead the slaves on a daring escape? lmoa nope. He saved Dalinar and got promoted to personal bodyguard so that means more pointless war. Is Dalinar going to actually start uniting the nobles? lmoa nope they're all backstabbing, bloodthirsty sociopaths except for him so never ever. Is anything Shallan's doing going to finally start the plot? I wouldn't bet on it.

I just keep reading, getting strung along hoping that the plot will start. It's like those old flash "dating" porn games that made you do hours and hours of bullshit to fuck a girl. Only here, instead of getting to stick your dick in a vagina, it's getting to see the actual fucking plot start. Just have Satan start the fucking apocalypse already goddamn.

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>Kaladin
>WAAAAAH I'M SO DEPRESSED
>WHY CAN'T I SAVE LITERALLY EVERYBODY ON A BATTLEFIELD
>GOTTA THINK OF A NEW PLAN
>WAAAAH MY PLAN GOT PEOPLE KILLED
>Dalinar
>OH MY GOD THE VISIONS I'M GOING INSAAAAAAANE
>HONOR HONOR HONOR
>READ THE BOOK
>GOTTA UNITE THEM
>Shallan
>I GOTTA STEAL THE SOULCASTER
>BUT I WANNA READ BOOKS AND SKETCH SNAILS
>OH NO I RESPECT JASNAH
>THE CONFLICT IN MY HEART
1200 pages of this shit, over and over and over again. He can't write funny characters. He repeats the same shit like he thinks the reader is a ADHD dumbass. His action sequences sound like someone who has watched too much C-tier Hollywood WHEN THEY EVEN HAPPEN. His characters are one dimensional.
Sanderson is fucking trash and is in serious need of an editor.

If this is seriously supposed to be his best work I feel confident I can be done with him after reading this slop

>DOTA battles
>"their eyes smoking as their bodies hit the ground"
>Jasnah raises her eyebrow
>Kaladin
>OOOOH I'M SO DEPRESSED ALL THE TIME
>WHY DOES EVERYONE DIE
>I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF
>Dalinar
>OOOOH MY HONOR
>THE VISIONS ARE MAKING ME INSAAAAANE
>STICK TO THE COOOOODES
>Shallan
>OOOOH I NEED TO STEAL THE SOULCASTER
>BUT I WANT TO READ MY BOOKS AND DRAW SNAILS
>THE CONFLICT IN MY HEART
1200 pages of the same chapter themes for 90% of the book. How did this get past the editor? Why do people like this book?

>Dalinar
>I'm going maaaad I'm going maaaad the visions the visions! Honor! Gotta read the book read the book!
>Shallan
>I need to steal the soulcaster! But I wanna read my books! Arg the conflict in my heart!
>Kaladin
>I need to save them all! Why do they all die! I'm so depressed!
1200 pages of this

how many more hundreds of pages do i need to read about carrying bridges in this fucking book? i'm not even halfway through and i'm sick of the word bridge