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I just finished my first Sanderson book, The Way of Kings. I really enjoyed it, probably could have used a bit of editing to slim down from 1124 pages. But I was engrossed the whole time. When I finally figured out that they basically live in a coral reef (600 pages in?) I got pretty excited. Maybe this is just me not reading too much fantasy recently or making an unfair comparison - but I kept waiting for a Game of Thrones type turn. It’s like I have a flinch reflex from those books “oh I like this character for the last 1000 pages, time for them to die horribly.” Anyway I was glad that didn’t happen. Made for a nice chill book more in the vein of Lord of the Rings than GOT. space uncle fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Grundulum posted:Sanderson isn’t Martin. He has his own tendencies that you might notice, but he doesn’t seek to write the same kind of fantasy stories Martin does. I never read any Goodkind, from the reactions it sounds like I dodged a bullet. I did finish the first Robert Jordan novel but didn’t really care for it. I think hearing that Sanderson was tied into finishing the series (even though I always heard it in the context of praise) put me off trying his books. I enjoyed Rothfuss, I enjoyed Dresden files, also enjoyed Joe Abercrombie. I read all of the Game of Thrones books and found the latter two fairly weak but wanted to know what was going to happen. I’m not sure if it’s just hitting a point in my life where I’m too old or too stressed out or too strapped for time - but I no longer want to read a Martin-style book where every page is grimmer and darker than the last. I’m sure there’s even more depressing non fiction and people reading that would tease me for avoiding uncomfortable fantasy novels, but whatever. Ok but back to TSA:TWOK thoughts per your excellent book club prompts. Spoilers for the The Way of Kings only: Guesses for what is going to happen further in the series: We need to get the band back together. There’s that very first opening scene with 10 dudes giving up 10 swords (Knights Radiant? dawnbringers? Surgebinders? All of the above). Void bringers / Desolation / Odium will come back. Once the band is back together they can help fight them. If the Desolations are cyclical then we will need to go one step further beyond just fighting the bad guys and break the cycle, which apparently has never happened. Ghostbloods got mentioned at the very end so they gotta figure out what those guys deal is, no idea whose side they are on. I think the the “Unite them” is referring to bringing the humans and the Parshendi/parshmen together. I know the big reveal at the end is that the Parshmen are voidbringers but they seem like reasonable dudes for the most part so I doubt they get set up to be straight up otherworldly evil shadow demons. Important stuff - need to resolve the assassination mission of Szeth against Dalinar and also figure out what the gently caress Taravangian is doing with all these assassinations. Kaladin needs to have a moment of respite and not be on the verge of death / nervous collapse / guilt driven suicide for one thousand straight pages. Renarin needs to do more stuff, not sure what his deal is. Looking forward to Sadeas’s comeuppance which I did unfortunately spoil for myself (I just wanted to see if Dalinar and Adolin were gonna live OK) Shallan started out as irritating when she was an adorkable spoiled child being carried around a city by slaves and pirates. She definitely grew on me with her love of reading and drawing. If she eats any more loving bread or jam I will roll my eyes so hard though. Please diversify your diet lady. I liked her sections with Jasnah, I like learning more about the world through them. The Soulcaster fake caught me totally by surprise. She also mentioned killing her dad which was never explained? Interesting. Marble world (Shadesmar) has been kind of whelming so far but could get cool later.
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Apr 26, 2024 18:41
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