Sanderson's writing bothers me much less than it bothers some of the posters here, especially the more expert posters like DomA.
Brandon's style (he has a fairly generic one, IMO) doesn't bother me much, and I appreciate how much he was able to tone it down for WOT (his too heavy reliance on dialogue scenes annoyed me in his books, but for WOT he adapted very well to a more descriptive style). It's different from Jordan enough, but I never expected it would mimic Jordan, so...
What annoys me is much smaller things, like Brandon's mishandling of some WOT terminology (wrong forms of address and so on... Lord for "My Lord", Dragon for Dragon Reborn etc. there's so many) and that not enough of his "too modern" vocabulary was edited out by Harriet for my taste.
I would not notice that if Brandon was the original writer, but in WOT I found it very distracting. It's like I am into the story and forgetful of the fact it's not RJ at the helm, and suddenly there's a "Please, Lord Dragon" instead of "My Lord, please" that makes me wince and throws me out of the book...
I had higher expectations that Harriet would smooth out all those, as it had been mentionned before the book release that she kept a close eye on that (the story about arguing on the way Jordan spelled a verb vs. how Brandon did is one of the things that made me raise my expectations. I thought if they nitpick over that stuff, it meant all the little odditities had been taken care for! Not so). The prose, as such, I expected to be really different and it's actually more in the tone of Jordan than I had expected from reading Brandon's novels.
mistakes sanderson makes that bug you
23/09/2010 05:38:52 PM
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Bael mentioning the Aiel Waste; characters using words that are too sophisticated or techical
23/09/2010 06:11:34 PM
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I completely agree...
23/09/2010 08:54:17 PM
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Re: I completely agree...
24/09/2010 01:57:38 AM
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Re: I completely agree...
24/09/2010 06:39:17 PM
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Oh, sh**, Moiraine! I never thought about that! The comments about her in tGS suggest you're right
26/09/2010 03:23:56 AM
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The entire Graendal scene
23/09/2010 06:27:03 PM
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I think this is the type of info that RJ never got around to revealing.
23/09/2010 08:46:51 PM
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The writing in the Graendal scene surprised me
24/09/2010 12:20:50 AM
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Re: The writing in the Graendal scene surprised me
24/09/2010 06:03:17 PM
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Particularly the way he described sex. It reeked of Mormon discomfort with the topic.
24/09/2010 02:04:08 AM
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Reeked? Great word. It seemed quite in line with RJ's own dealings with the topic. *NM*
24/09/2010 03:42:28 AM
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RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
24/09/2010 11:28:25 PM
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Re: RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
25/09/2010 08:56:47 PM
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RJ said breasts all the time, but in a more clinical manner - folding arms under breasts, etc
26/09/2010 03:33:09 AM
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Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
24/09/2010 04:09:48 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
24/09/2010 05:36:23 PM
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A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
24/09/2010 06:10:35 PM
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Re: A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
24/09/2010 07:54:54 PM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
25/09/2010 10:02:02 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
25/09/2010 08:48:05 PM
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Not really a mistake, I guess
25/09/2010 09:45:54 PM
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Well...
26/09/2010 06:30:54 AM
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Thanks. I think I didn't notice it with RJ because
26/09/2010 06:35:47 AM
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