I am curious to what you thought of that book and if you think Sanderson's writing style has improved with time? I thought his character building of Kaladin was well done, and like how he is formatting his books (building a "main" character in each successive book).
Mostly out of lack of interest in starting yet another long series that will take many years before it's completed.
Maybe later.
I do find the books I read (Mistborn, Elantris) somewhat better than his WOT book. His style is more natural for his own stories, and he plays on his strengths and usually avoid his weaknesses. And for his own stories that he controls completely, he's avoided the kind of structural fiasco he trapped himself into with his WOT books.
I discussed Stormlight a bit with Sanderson after a signing, and the way he described the structure of the series to us sounded interesting.. the first volumes focussing on introducing different characters/storylines each, pretty much as apparent stand alones, and by the mid series it would start to come together and global storylines would start to emerge. At the time he was starting his rewrite of WoK, and he said he was giving a lot of thought to finding ways to avoid the problems of other long series (like WOT) where at some point it became problematic to advance several storylines in parralel and maintain pace. At the time his options were up in the air for the final volumes, he had not decided yet how he'd approach them, more chronologically à la WOT or devoting volumes to some storylines in turn (so, more in the vein of Erikcson).
If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't.
28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM
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The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors
28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM
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Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic....
28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM
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Now see, here I don't fully agree, or at least think it's a matter of taste.
28/09/2012 07:21:09 PM
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Sorry, that's just not true...
28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM
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I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting...
28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM
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I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter
28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM
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I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful"
29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM
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To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit.
29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM
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Yes. The last time it happened to me it ended with the taxi driver fined by the NYPD.
29/09/2012 07:05:26 AM
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The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM
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Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot?
29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM
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Both of you disgust me
29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM
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To be fair...
29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM
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True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices
29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM
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B-Sand is not a ghost writer
29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM
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Didn't say he should.
29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM
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What is it you want?
29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM
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We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh.
29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM
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Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM*
29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM
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It is what it is
30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM
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You do know this isn't his series, right?
29/09/2012 04:19:00 PM
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Do you see us going to Mistborn boards to rip his series? Part of the problem is what you say.
29/09/2012 09:57:54 PM
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Apologies for not being clear: I'm only referring to WoT. Haven't read any of his other work...
30/09/2012 06:56:08 PM
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I'd agree that I like his original works more than his WoT books
01/10/2012 06:17:33 PM
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It's fairly simple....
30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM
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Thanks for that insightful response...
30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM
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Try reading something instead of judging. I recommend the Mistborn trilogy *NM*
01/10/2012 01:14:24 AM
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It's more...
01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM
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Did you read Way of Kings?
03/10/2012 09:14:43 PM
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No, nothing but the prologue
04/10/2012 02:56:14 AM
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Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM
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I have an acquaintance who uses "my friend" as punctuation of every sentence.
05/10/2012 02:47:40 PM
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