Active Users:382 Time:27/04/2025 06:21:25 AM
No, nothing but the prologue DomA Send a noteboard - 04/10/2012 02:56:14 AM
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).

Reply to message
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 5761 Views
John McCain has a similar proclivity. *NM* - 28/09/2012 12:26:29 PM 1151 Views
The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors - 28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM 1102 Views
Potential customer = best kind of friend *NM* - 28/09/2012 02:20:29 PM 634 Views
I agree in this particular instance. - 28/09/2012 03:38:15 PM 1420 Views
Maybe they have been Quakers all along? *NM* - 28/09/2012 03:39:24 PM 779 Views
Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic.... - 28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM 1286 Views
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 1966 Views
Sorry, that's just not true... - 28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM 1151 Views
A few things. - 29/09/2012 02:40:47 AM 1381 Views
Great rebuttal! Fionwe got burned! *NM* - 29/09/2012 04:00:41 PM 844 Views
Re: A few things. - 30/09/2012 06:07:57 PM 1634 Views
I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... - 28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM 1148 Views
Re: I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... - 29/09/2012 01:51:20 AM 1368 Views
Yes! - 29/09/2012 02:26:39 AM 1304 Views
This is one of my biggest pet peeves as well - 29/09/2012 04:56:53 AM 1281 Views
There are people who say that? - 29/09/2012 05:16:58 AM 1142 Views
I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter - 28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM 1403 Views
I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful" - 29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM 1402 Views
To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit. - 29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM 1125 Views
Which is the question I brought up in another thread - 29/09/2012 05:29:01 PM 1026 Views
The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... - 29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM 1340 Views
Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot? - 29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM 1379 Views
Both of you disgust me - 29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM 1308 Views
This is not jealousy, it's being upset - 29/09/2012 07:52:51 PM 1183 Views
They could have hired a ghost writer. They chose not to. *NM* - 29/09/2012 09:34:27 PM 9835 Views
Your crappy taste in books means nothing - 30/09/2012 09:23:51 PM 1694 Views
When did I ever say Eli Manning wasn't a good QB? - 01/10/2012 03:40:21 PM 1087 Views
To be fair... - 29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM 1185 Views
True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices - 29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM 1011 Views
B-Sand is not a ghost writer - 29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM 2453 Views
Didn't say he should. - 29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM 1753 Views
I mostly agree with this. - 29/09/2012 09:36:38 PM 1367 Views
What is it you want? - 29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM 1344 Views
We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh. - 29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM 1600 Views
Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM* - 29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM 547 Views
It is what it is - 30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM 905 Views
Those are not remotely the same thing - 30/09/2012 09:14:49 PM 1180 Views
But they are the same in this instance - 30/09/2012 10:01:59 PM 1087 Views
It's fairly simple.... - 30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM 1339 Views
Thanks for that insightful response... - 30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM 1063 Views
Forgotten Realms is big on clever spells and magic systems? - 01/10/2012 05:27:05 AM 1020 Views
It's more... - 01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM 1782 Views
Did you read Way of Kings? - 03/10/2012 09:14:43 PM 1295 Views
No, nothing but the prologue - 04/10/2012 02:56:14 AM 1038 Views
Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... - 11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM 928 Views

Reply to Message