That's a lot of stuff about the faults of Sanderson, but did you honestly like CoT?
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 17/11/2011 03:39:48 AM
For the most part your arguments about the Sanderson WoT books are well reasoned. I don't know if I agree with them all, but definitely some- although, some of your complaints basically boil down to "Sanderson has a different writing style than Jordan," which you'd get with any writer.
This one really bugged me, though
Sanderson's storytelling has been influenced by Jordan's certainly, but his writing is totally different, and his novels are completely different (it's completely unfair to compare a transitional book like COT to anything Sanderson has written.
No one forced Jordan to make CoT a "transitional book." Maybe he just screwed up the pacing, or he figured it would be worth it to write Knife of Dreams (which is definitely in the top half of my rankings). Maybe he got too bogged down in ancillary characters. I don't know. But I can and certainly will compare CoT to every other book in the Wheel of Time Series. In a ranking, someone has to be last, and for many people, it's Crossroads of Twilight.
Yeah, the character development was good, (what did we have... Rand becoming even MORE dark and MORE stoic for like the third book in a row. Egwene basically the same as she ever was (evil), ...I don't recall what Nynaeve did. Mat was wandering with Tuon, which was nice, although his characterization was basically just "ugh I don't wanna fall in love I don't wanna fall in love" (or was that KoD? Sigh, I should reread). Perrin did some more wandering, Moiraine stayed dead...)
Meh. The fact that I can't even definitively say everything that happened in Crossroads speaks to its blandness. Shadow Rising and Fires of Heaven managed to get in a ton of characterization and still have "things happen."
This one really bugged me, though
Sanderson's storytelling has been influenced by Jordan's certainly, but his writing is totally different, and his novels are completely different (it's completely unfair to compare a transitional book like COT to anything Sanderson has written.
No one forced Jordan to make CoT a "transitional book." Maybe he just screwed up the pacing, or he figured it would be worth it to write Knife of Dreams (which is definitely in the top half of my rankings). Maybe he got too bogged down in ancillary characters. I don't know. But I can and certainly will compare CoT to every other book in the Wheel of Time Series. In a ranking, someone has to be last, and for many people, it's Crossroads of Twilight.
Yeah, the character development was good, (what did we have... Rand becoming even MORE dark and MORE stoic for like the third book in a row. Egwene basically the same as she ever was (evil), ...I don't recall what Nynaeve did. Mat was wandering with Tuon, which was nice, although his characterization was basically just "ugh I don't wanna fall in love I don't wanna fall in love" (or was that KoD? Sigh, I should reread). Perrin did some more wandering, Moiraine stayed dead...)
Meh. The fact that I can't even definitively say everything that happened in Crossroads speaks to its blandness. Shadow Rising and Fires of Heaven managed to get in a ton of characterization and still have "things happen."
I amuse myself.
I propose a new RAFO.com promotion of Alloy of Law (B-Sand's newest book)
- 11/11/2011 05:37:19 PM
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Really? You think Crossroads of Twilight is better than the Sanderson books?
- 14/11/2011 03:45:08 PM
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Re: Really? You think Crossroads of Twilight is better than the Sanderson books?
- 15/11/2011 09:57:09 AM
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That's a lot of stuff about the faults of Sanderson, but did you honestly like CoT?
- 17/11/2011 03:39:48 AM
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Re: That's a lot of stuff about the faults of Sanderson, but did you honestly like CoT?
- 18/11/2011 07:59:41 PM
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I'm looking forward to rereading them for the first time when aMoL comes out
- 15/11/2011 10:23:03 PM
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