/lit/ - Literature

This guy writes some of the worst dialogue ever and THE worst dialogue in a fantasy book that I've ever read. Why does /lit/ like him?

Where does he rank on the list of greatest fantasy authors of all time?

can George RR Martin just die already so that this guy can finish the series for him

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No wonder America is troubled

>successful
>white
>male
>religious
>has white family
>books are solid
>lit hates him
Why?

Thoughts?

Podcast-tier books, you won't get much out of them but they're great to absentmindedly listen to while driving or doing some kind of manual labour since you're not missing out on much if you stop paying attention for a minute or so. If something is important it will be repeated 4 or 5 times so a child could follow along. The marvel of books.

Author seems like a nice guy, shame about him being part of a cult though, you know for a fact that by buying his books at least 11% of the money goes to it through his tithes.

No idea how he got THIS popular since he writes slop to listen to while moving boxes but it serves that purpose really well, as far as entertainment goes i'd say it's 1 notch above listening to your coworker tell you stories about his visits to the grocery store or what he had for dinner.

Are we all in an agreeement on this one?

wait, is he a good author or not?

Anything good (fantasy) from Brandon Sanderson?

Brandon Sanderson said that when you're writing your first book that you should look at a book or a movie that you like and use what you like about that movie as the basis of your story, basically copying your favourite shit. My favourite movie is Fight Club, surely that type of plot twist can't be easy to replicate for a new writer. Thoughts?

why do people hate Brandon Sanderson causeso much? It's okay to hate his work but his mere existence cause so mauch ire from people you'd think he ran over an orphanage

What makes him such a manchild magnet?

What's his endgame?

He will be remembered as a modern day Tolkien.

magic systems are... le good...

>"Magic systems."

>Magic is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval magic system: that if the being is magical, then magic should follow from them. We look at real magic systems and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Gandalf is magical because he's an angel who's been around for thousands of years, and he was powerful and mystical. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Gandalf's magic meter? Did he maintain a tangible cost to his magi? What did he do if his magic meter depleted? And what about all these Witch Kings? By the end of the war, Gandalf is gone but all of the evil magic is not gone – it lingers in many forms. Did the Middle Earth magic system lose them their power? Even the little baby witches dabbling in their dark magic cradles?

>"Magic systems."

What do you think of him?

I can't stand his books. I read Mistborn and kind of liked it but that's because it was a pretty interesting story. When I tried to read his other stuff it's just 20 pages of fight scene after fight scene.

>first he did this
>then he did that
>then did a little magic and went up like that
>used his sword but missed and did a backflip

It's like he's trying to make them sound like what you would do in a videogame.

"There is no one in the game like Bakker, I am obsessed with him. Every day I write and write and write, hoping to achieve a fraction of his glory, but alas I always fall short. From the intense battles, the pitch black lore, or the poignant character psychology, he puts the rest of us to shame " ~ Brandon Sanderson, Interviewed for Men's Health Magazine.

So does he have Down Syndrome or what

What the fuck, Brandon Sanderson is a professor of creative writing?
>Sanderson is adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University, teaching a creative writing course once per year.[50][51]

I was about halfway through the first draft of Oathbriner when a friend brought to my attention the works of Richard Scott Bakker. Being the voracious reader of fanasy literiture that I am I absolutly devoured these tombs in a little over a week. And I kid not when I say that I was thunderstruck by the monsterous, unearthly talent on display. There was the intense battles; so powerfully rendered that the bloody vistas came upon you like a revelation of Biblical magnitude. But it was not merely the masterclass of prose that brought these battles to life, it was the pitch black lore that contextualized these beautiful nightmares with abyssal meaning. This blackness beyond blackness was, of course, achieved only by anchoring this lore-of-lore in themes of a the most highly intellectual nature found in philosophy. Truley the mind of Bakker puts modern "professional" philosophers to shame. Arguably Bakker's greatest achievement is uniting all the above in a poignent study of his characters psychological states as they begin to comprehend both the world Bakker has crafed for them, and the deeper philosophical truths that reach beyond mere fantasy to reveal the real world, almost implications that they hold for us, the readers lucky enough to experience this once in a lifetime tour de force. Implications of an almost Lovecraftian nature.