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Your crappy taste in books means nothing Cannoli Send a noteboard - 30/09/2012 09:23:51 PM
Jealous, so very jealous.

Do you two know how absurd you sound? First of all, I very much knew who B-Sand was before he took over. Secondly, if WoT helped his fan base, it certainly has nothing to do with his staying power. His books are very good and I really don't care for the WoT books he has done. I much prefer his own work. It disgusts me how you two dismiss his success, as though being a bestseller is some type of fluke. Get off your high horses and write your own successful fantasy series.


Let me get this straight - success at his job does not make Eli Manning a good quarterback. Yet, success at his job means that anyone who is unsatisfied with Brandon Sanderson's performance on a highly subjective scale, must be jealous or have some other motive for criticizing him?

Furthermore, your response to our observation that writing success has a great deal to do with luck - is to demand that we reproduce that fortuitous turn of events that has benefited Sanderson? That's like us saying "Well he won five straight coin flips due to luck" and you responding "Wow, you must be jealous! Shut up until YOU manage to win five flips in a row!"

It's good to see that your one consistent trait is a complete lack of logical consistency, whether in assessing entertainers, or in following arguments.
Cannoli
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- The Crownless

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If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't. Cannoli - 28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM 5786 Views
John McCain has a similar proclivity. *NM* RandAllThor - 28/09/2012 12:26:29 PM 1167 Views
The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors Marshall - 28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM 1136 Views
Potential customer = best kind of friend *NM* Artsapat - 28/09/2012 02:20:29 PM 713 Views
I agree in this particular instance. Nate - 28/09/2012 03:38:15 PM 1467 Views
Maybe they have been Quakers all along? *NM* dadof5 - 28/09/2012 03:39:24 PM 797 Views
Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic.... DomA - 28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM 1339 Views
Now see, here I don't fully agree, or at least think it's a matter of taste. Nate - 28/09/2012 07:21:09 PM 2006 Views
Sorry, that's just not true... fionwe1987 - 28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM 1181 Views
A few things. Nate - 29/09/2012 02:40:47 AM 1423 Views
Great rebuttal! Fionwe got burned! *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:00:41 PM 861 Views
Re: A few things. DomA - 30/09/2012 06:07:57 PM 1673 Views
I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... fionwe1987 - 28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM 1181 Views
Re: I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... Cannoli - 29/09/2012 01:51:20 AM 1400 Views
Yes! fionwe1987 - 29/09/2012 02:26:39 AM 1332 Views
This is one of my biggest pet peeves as well Deadsy - 29/09/2012 04:56:53 AM 1383 Views
There are people who say that? Nate - 29/09/2012 05:16:58 AM 1175 Views
I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter Sidious - 28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM 1433 Views
I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful" darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM 1432 Views
To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM 1156 Views
Which is the question I brought up in another thread darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:29:01 PM 1055 Views
Yes. The last time it happened to me it ended with the taxi driver fined by the NYPD. Tom - 29/09/2012 07:05:26 AM 1143 Views
The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... Shannow - 29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM 1367 Views
Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot? Cannoli - 29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM 1412 Views
Both of you disgust me Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM 1339 Views
This is not jealousy, it's being upset Marshall - 29/09/2012 07:52:51 PM 1213 Views
They could have hired a ghost writer. They chose not to. *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 09:34:27 PM 9849 Views
Your crappy taste in books means nothing Cannoli - 30/09/2012 09:23:51 PM 1724 Views
When did I ever say Eli Manning wasn't a good QB? Dark Knight - 01/10/2012 03:40:21 PM 1117 Views
To be fair... Sidious - 29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM 1213 Views
True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM 1112 Views
B-Sand is not a ghost writer Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM 2486 Views
Didn't say he should. darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM 1782 Views
I mostly agree with this. Nate - 29/09/2012 09:36:38 PM 1399 Views
What is it you want? Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM 1374 Views
We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM 1970 Views
Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM 562 Views
It is what it is darius_sedai - 30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM 935 Views
Those are not remotely the same thing Cannoli - 30/09/2012 09:14:49 PM 1211 Views
But they are the same in this instance darius_sedai - 30/09/2012 10:01:59 PM 1119 Views
You do know this isn't his series, right? Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:19:00 PM 1661 Views
Do you see us going to Mistborn boards to rip his series? Part of the problem is what you say. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 09:57:54 PM 2044 Views
Apologies for not being clear: I'm only referring to WoT. Haven't read any of his other work... Shannow - 30/09/2012 06:56:08 PM 1384 Views
I'd agree that I like his original works more than his WoT books beetnemesis - 01/10/2012 06:17:33 PM 1266 Views
It's fairly simple.... DomA - 30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM 1370 Views
Thanks for that insightful response... Shannow - 30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM 1089 Views
Try reading something instead of judging. I recommend the Mistborn trilogy *NM* Dark Knight - 01/10/2012 01:14:24 AM 530 Views
Forgotten Realms is big on clever spells and magic systems? Fanatic-Templar - 01/10/2012 05:27:05 AM 1051 Views
It's more... DomA - 01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM 1813 Views
Did you read Way of Kings? VTHokie - 03/10/2012 09:14:43 PM 1322 Views
No, nothing but the prologue DomA - 04/10/2012 02:56:14 AM 1068 Views
Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... RugbyPlayingAshaman - 11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM 960 Views
I have an acquaintance who uses "my friend" as punctuation of every sentence. Kaldric - 05/10/2012 02:47:40 PM 1664 Views
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