/lit/ - Literature

>>19921377
I enjoyed Mistborn, and you can just read the first book and stop if you don't want to commit to a series.

He basically writes shounen manga. Make of that what you will.

Mistborn is pretty schlocky and entirely devoted to explaining the magic system. It's like a videogame manual with a narrative.

I gave it a shot because a couple of my friends got in to his books and Mistborn really turned me off from wanting to bother with anything else of his.

I'm not a huge fantasy fan in the first place though, so take that as you will.

He's OK, start with warbreaker into way of kings, the first Mistborn trilogy is by far the worst books of his(those characters oof, but the plots have their moments I guess) but is needed for general world building and the second Mistborn trilogy is kino.

>>19921448
I think first Mistborn was nice but its the only thing I read from him, maybe because its the one I was interested in the most so I started with it.

>>19921377
He's the literary equivalent of diving into a restaurant's dumpster when you're hungry. Lots of stuff, all shit.

He writes at an absurd pace because his style is shit, his characters are shit, his plots are shit, his "le epic magic systems" are shit, etc.

Sanderson's style is simplistic to the point of being a slog to read. I didn't think it was possible.

>>19921417
So he writes high art?

Why does this anger /lit/ so much?

>>19921527
How can someone with a master's degree in creative writing write so badly?

>>19921586
Because of the pozzed sjw trash grabage cucked blacked academic system?

>>19921586
Is a master's degree in creative writing actually a thing? How would taking a streamlined course from a professor who's probably reading off a book make you any more creative. Creativity is intrinsic.

>>19921623
Based, Bakker is the only one who survived the pozzed sjw trash garbage cucked blacked academic system

>>19921377
I dislike how all his books are connected through the cosmos and mormon God.

>>19921639
He didn't survive, they live rent free in his head.

>>19921791
coping academics would rather an essay on social justice pozzed garbage instead of an Epic Adult Fantasy like Bakker.

Cope and seethe,

>>19921797
>Epic Adult Fantasy
Child Fantasy.

>>19921791
Is this dude some kind of trannie? The blog is something a female would write.

>>19921802
>Child Fantasy.
Academic cope, go write an essay on black cock

>>19921812
Just your standard leftist/progressive male feminist blog.

>>19921822
He is non-standard, he is sublime, he writes the best fantasy ever, he is so based women seethe and cope in goodreads eternally

>>19921623
>this fucking post
You have to be 18+ to post here.

>>19921822
>standard leftist/progressive male feminist blog.
Sounds about right. Dude writes like a woman.

>>19921377
He writes to entertain an audience interested in fantasy tropes. If that's you, then yes he is worth reading.

>>19921848
ok sjw boomer, zoomers love Bakker! you would die and we will spread the word of Bakker!

>>19921791
Does anyone know what this meme is called?

>>19921377
I read two Mistborn books in a couple of days when the Internet in my area was down, but when it came back up I couldn't read the third one past 100 pages. And the way of kings is just exceptionally boring, read 400 pages and dropped it.
He can create interesting worlds and plots and characters that sound cool in theory, but the actual books mostly feel lifeless and bleak.

>>19921377
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."

>>19922218
Mistborn was bleak but it had some life affirming moments

>>19922869
You mean Mormon faith affirming moments

>>19922883
I know he is mormon and I hate mormons but what was mormon in his work? beside the work ethics?

>>19921377
I see redditors hate on Sanderson and mistborn so they're probably both good

>>19921377
Good at making up universes, as in he'll provide you with some decent reasons why these universes are how they are. Similarly, good at structuring a plot, as in he'll plant enough causes for the ultimate consequences to make sense. So, he's mechanically good, I guess, but in a Hollywood sense: he focuses on thrills, intrigue, and a shocker at the end, not on building something organical.
Terrible at: writing characters, they all feel like self-absorbed teenagers and act /talk like such; writing in general, his prose is amongst the poorest I've read, and that's saying something when you're, like me, an avid fantasy reader.

>>19921417
Based

>>19921377
Stop reading YA-tier fiction

Absolute shitstorm brap machine tornedo splashed overload shitty aroma

>>19921818
grow up

>>19922895
The entire conclusion of Mistborn trilogy in Heroes of Ages is straight out of the Book of Mormon. The entire cosmere is just like Mormonism. LDS is all over his writing and what connects his book universes.

>>19922943
Cool he did this, I heard he is known to take things and making them his own but never knew he do it with religion too.

>>19922935
What if I like YA fiction?

>>19923171
Noooooo you can’t like things

>>19923180
This but unironically

I gave Way of Kings a shot. The characters are cliche and 2-dimensional, the dialogue is downright shocking, the prose is bland, the writing is frequently technically incompotent and the world-building (for which he gets a bizarre amount of praise) is incoherent, souless and conveyed very poorly. The books are also painfully fucking long and almost nothing of real significance happens until the end where he realises he needs things to happen and scrambles to fix it (lapdog fanboys think this is stylistic choice and call it the Sanderlanch lol)

But the most unforgivable thing is just how souless everything is. Maybe its just not for me, but there's no spirit, no meaning behind any of it, just mary sue action and a string of scenarios way beyond the talent of this bland, bland author. I like pulp and even shonen for what they are, but sanderson can't deliver even them, let alone an "epic" fantasy. disappointing, he seems like a nice enough guy

>>19921377
I recently read the mistborn trilogy and while it was decent the charachters for the most part are not that good or memorable

>>19924198
The Kaladin parts are great, that General guy and his sons is average and the part with the academic foid is terrible, he isnt a philosopher and really struggles to write such a character and it ruins the whole thing.

king of the downies

>>19921567
sandersoi books have no plot though