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This is the highest rated book on Goodreads. Is it deserving of its position?

>> No.20761783

>>20761758
No, but I sincerely enjoyed The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. They were the most enjoyable reads I've had in modern fantasy. Not the best writing mind you. I dropped the series after reading Oathbringer because Sanderson is basically just shitting out padded books with no quality control at this point in time.

>> No.20761823

>>20761758
He's better than Tolstoy and Shakespeare

>> No.20762639

>>20761758
No, but it is better than Harry Potter shit which used to be #1, so a step in the right direction.

>> No.20762649
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20762649

>>20761758

>> No.20763511

It gets pretty DBZ towards the end but it's a great read

>> No.20763568

>>20762649
Feeling sussy about this review...; who wrote it?

>> No.20763652

>>20763568
Looks like that JG Keely guy who makes reddit seethe

>> No.20763751

>>20761758
it's anime in prose form, with less coombait and more "ackchyually". It's ok entertainment.

>> No.20764452

>>20763751
>it's anime in prose form
intrigued
>with less coombait
interested
>more "ackchyually"
I'm sold

>> No.20764492

>>20761758
compared to david gemmell?

>> No.20764546

Read the first two Stormlight books and they remind me of modern television shows, the kind where the opening episode/chapters serves as a hook, then the vast bulk of the book/season is characters spinning their wheels until the last episode/chapter climaxes in a manner that rather than resolving anything acts as a cliff-hanger for the next book/season. A cliffhanger that is inevitably resolved in the first episode/chapters of the next book/season so it can do the same thing all over again.

>> No.20764549

>>20761758
Why is everyone obessed with this dweeb?