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[Anonymous No.22919343]

He SAVED contemporary fantasy after GRRM destroyed any hope of it.

And his masterpiece is coming out THIS year.
(Stormlight 5)

[Anonymous No.22919348]

>>22919343
Sanderson is shit. Martin is a god. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.22919351]

>>22919348
You mean Martin WAS good, too bad you won't see the end of ASoIF unlike Stormlight.

[Anonymous No.22919366]

>>22919343
Stormlight 3 and 4 are terrible and I doubt 5 is going to be any better.

[Anonymous No.22919395]

Sell me on his stuff as someone who's only read GRRM and no other modern fantasy. What's the hook? What does he do well?

[Anonymous No.22919416]

[Anonymous No.22919421]

>>22919416
take this one too

[Anonymous No.22919427]

>>22919351
>unlike Stormlight.
In 20 years (or when he plans to end it) he will die from a heart attack. He is fat and he's tall (unlike Martin).

>You mean Martin WAS good
Martin is a god, he gave us a method to write godlike pseudo-historic fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22919473]

>>22919366
TO BE FAIR; 4 was pretty fucking boring LMAO.

Its like hes writing them to be long, not interesting.

>>22919395
The hook is LONG GOYSLOP writing, with your favourite teenage characters being quirky and OVERPOWERED AS HELL.

>>22919416
>>22919421
Actually well written and fairly correct analysis of the books. Sanderson writes with the "end goal" in focus, and therefore everything before just becomes whatever have to happen to make the end happen.

[Anonymous No.22919512]

>>22919343
Stop shilling this hack. It's not funny even ironically.

[Anonymous No.22919515]

>>22919427
>Martin is a god, he gave us a method to write godlike pseudo-historic fantasy.
His writing method is to mix of thrillers with soap operas. Start every chapter with a rehash of what happened last time, stuff the middle with filler, end with a cliffhanger. Switch to a different perspective for the next chapter and repeat the same trick. He's a TV writing hack.

There is nothing historical about his works. It has only a surface level resemblance to real history. It's just a world with more rape than magic.

[Anonymous No.22919537]

>>22919515
if the start is a rehash, the middle is filler and the end is the cliffhanger how is possible that the plot progresses at all?

[Anonymous No.22919541]

>>22919537
It doesnt, how do you think we are 7 books in and barely covered a year of story time?

[Anonymous No.22919548]

>>22919515
>There is nothing historical about his works. It has only a surface level resemblance to real history.
It shouldn't be a copy of real history. It should be something what uses real historical, social and economic processes. Martin has it, most other authors don't.

>It's just a world with more rape than magic.
Abercrombie also writes about more rapes than magic. But he is not even close to Martin.

>>22919541
>we are 7 books in and barely covered a year of story time?
A dumb argument, there are books which cover a day.

[Anonymous No.22919550]

>be martin
>write book 4
>accidently writes 500 pages of Jaime and brianna in riverlands where nothing happens
>leave it in and split the book in 2.

VERY COOL

[Anonymous No.22919558]

>>22919548
>A dumb argument, there are books which cover a day.
Obviously, but when you outline a story to take place over a few years / decade (his outline). And now you're barely halfway because of expansion creep. Then it is his fault.

[Anonymous No.22919565]

>>22919550
>be sanderson
>write first 95 % of shitty fillers
>end with a cliffhanger
>repeat

[Anonymous No.22919578]

Way of Kings was good. Each book since has gotten progressively worse

[Anonymous No.22919601]

>>22919541
AGoT covers an entire year. I think the other 4 add up to 2 and a bit.

[Anonymous No.22919611]

>>22919548
>It should be something what uses real historical, social and economic processes. Martin has it, most other authors don't.
What real historical, social, and economic processes does Martin use?

Can you point them out in his other works such as Wildcards or CBS's Beauty and the Beast?

[Anonymous No.22919622]

>>22919550
Brienne is legitimately a great story. It's one of those things that, if the series were finished without any major delays, fans would look back on upon re-reads as an underrated gem. But as it stands readers see it only as a barrier in the way of what they want to see.

[Anonymous No.22919926]

>>22919343
You mean it's coming in 1-2 years because any edition of big fantasy chonker must be read in the mass market paperback edition, 7" tall and THICC

I'm more than covered till then with the far superior writer/series to both Brando Sando and the lord of FAT.

[Anonymous No.22920160]

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