I’m on a kick with this guy lately; his work is interesting and I am amazed by the scope of his undertakings. And also, I’m waiting for him to finish all ten (10!) of his books in the Stormlight series, for which I will be waiting approximately another 15 years. At the rate I’m reading, I should run out of his previously published material in… a couple of weeks.
This isn’t looking good for the rest of the fantasy writing
world.
I’m looking at you, Terry Goodkind and GRRM
Speaking of GRRM, I canNOT have been the only one who
thoroughly enjoyed the Epic Internet Meltdown that happened a couple of weeks
ago over the Red Wedding, can I? AT LAST my wide-eyed, slack-jawed reaction
from 2002 is justified!
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Ok, back to Brandon Sanderson.
This is his first novel, weighing in at a hefty 658 pages
without too much infodumping, which
in itself is pretty impressive. It’s something of a post-apocalyptic novel in
that the world as the inhabitants know it changed cataclysmically 10 years ago
and no one really knows why or what to do about it, and there are plenty of
interesting characters.
I don’t know how to be funny about fantasy novels, you guys.
No one but me seems to read them in our (really awesome) set, and I’m not generally a fan of the SF/F fandom – just the books. And this isn’t the kind of SF/F that I’d
recommend starting with (see above re. 658 pages), soooo…..
I’ll just be over here, reading cheerfully till 3am and
talking to my cat about it.
7.5 of 11 Books You Didn't Write in Grad School, Haters
