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Just thought I'd check in. Pic related is a certified author of classics, up there with the best of them.

>> No.8778996

Exquisite.

>> No.8779009

>>8778983
this man looks like he unironically self-describes as a legend on stormwind

idk who he is and i am too lazy to reverse image search

but he smells of soft and vulnerable manchild and a lover of albums bought from the counter at starbucks

i hate life anon
i hate everything

>> No.8779013

He's one of the few authors that write literary fantasy. Great author.

>> No.8779017

>>8779013
>literary fantasy

There is no such thing.

>> No.8779023

is that garth marengi?

>> No.8779027

>>8779017
You don't know what literature is, then. The literary cannon is full of fantasy.

>> No.8779029

>>8778983
Sanderson doesn't care about our opinions because he isn't trying to write literary fiction in the first place. He's a genre fantasy author. Everything he cranks out tops the bestseller list and rakes in critical acclaim, and he can write his stories at a ridiculously fast rate. If I were in his position I wouldn't give two shits what a bunch of misanthropes on the internet had to say about me.

>>8779009
Projection

>> No.8779038

>>8779029
Critical acclaim? Literature gets critical acclaim for its content. Fantasy does not. Bye.

>> No.8779043

>>8779029
as if that wasn't already perfectly obvious mi amigo

plz be funnier next time, i'm going to kill myself and i'd rather be smirking and tipping my fedora as i plummet towards the cement

>> No.8779049

>>8779027
>tfw literary cannon

hang on lads i've got a great idea for a novel

>> No.8779052

>>8778983
Bad b8

>> No.8779088

>>8779038
Kek. You're so out of touch it's hilarious. Fantasy novels receive acclaim across the board from the vast majority of sources. It's basically /lit/ and Harold Bloom vs everyone else here. I bet you think Harry Potter wasn't hailed as an instant classic too.

>> No.8779619

Just finished Warbreaker. I've also read WoK and WoR. He's formulaic but it works. Build world, establish magic system, put characters in moral dilemmas, have them work out their moral dilemmas as the tension rises, insert a few twists, characters are almost too late in working out their morality as the story builds to a massive twist/climax, good only just triumphs over evil. I'm looking forward to where he takes the Cosmere.