Anyone order the White Sand book that will have all three volumes? That’s all I have left in the cosmere, and wanting to buy it once it’s available instead of ordering all three separately
I'm like 65% of the way through and it's pretty enjoyable so far. My hardcover should be arriving today as well.
Yea enjoyable easy read with plenty of Easter eggs for die hard Sanderson fans. seen a lot of people recommend this now over warbreaker or Elantris or Misborn to start with Sanderson cosmere
I need to read it and the Lost Metal and Hogwarts Legacy comes out Friday. Too many options for my limited free time.
That’s an awful recommendation IMO. I feel like you need some background cosmere knowledge before reading or tons of stuff won’t make sense. Maybe I’m wrong.
I just saw a few people on tik tok recommend it. I’m not that researched into the cosmere to know either way.
Agree. Not only this but if I read this first you would get the wrong idea about how Sanderson writes. This is a nice reprieve and feels like a YA fantasy novel. It was a good change of pace with some cool easter eggs but thats it IMO. I'd still recommend Mistborn as the starting point.
He said he wanted to write the story of The Princess Bride if Buttercup went looking for Wesley instead of waiting for him.
Finished book 2 of the 2nd mistborn trilogy. It did pick up a little, but I'd personally put it well behind mistborn 1 and elantris
Reading it with this in mind really helps. I enjoyed the book a lot, but knowing he was aiming for a little more fanciful writing is useful.
Apparently someone wrote an Anti-Brandon article. Really weird. I can definitely see him coming off as a try hard but I think he’s genuinely just a massive geek.
Watched this video on the article. It's long, but goes through the article pretty well. Guy who wrote the article comes off like a massive douche.
Scanned that article. It seems really weird. Struck me as someone not liking an author's work and trying to convince those that do to stop. Could have saved a ton of work and just not read any more of his work.
As I’m listening to that breakdown my thought was that the writer is possibly failing, or thinks that he is failing, in his career. Is just very caught up in his own head and is lashing out/flailing. It’s not well written or insightful. More sad than a hit piece.
Yep. It sounded like someone with no ideas, inspiration, or concept for what they wanted to write, so he just stumbled about hoping that he found his voice along the way. He didn’t, but what we ended up with was just low effort pot shots and meandering drivel.
For the other side, this is a fascinating read: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43438119/brandon-sanderson-profile/
I read a few chapters last night, it’s alright so far but I’m not hooked yet. Also bummed it’s not cosmere but yeah I can’t expect him to only write cosmere novels
Halfway through Oathbringer. Just got Rhythm of War ordered through my local book store. Fuck you Amazon.
Listening to name of the wind again and fuck it’s so good. Just makes me wonder what happens to an author, whose so obviously has a great story and he said that makes him lose it. George Martin was kind of an author by accident. He always just wanted to be a producer wanted to be in TV. Robert Jordan was just getting really old but I don’t know what the deal is with Rothfuss
Finished the newest secret project this weekend and it was...interesting. Spoiler I have no idea when this is in the cosmere timeline but there are some hints that it's significantly later than the stories that have been told thus far. Manned space travel (instead of just using perpendicularities and other realms, several things Hoid says about other planets and their knowledge of each other). Curious to see what, if any, impact this planet and it's magic system have in future tales.
About 5 chapters in to The Lost Metal and thought everything would come back to me. It hasn't and I'm pretty lost. Didn't someone post a recap of Bands somewhere?
Halfway through and just been using The Coppermind along the way to fill me in. Holy shit at how complex the Investiture is at this point. Impossible to keep up with just the Allomancy alone. His notes must be incredible.
I enjoyed Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. Spoiler The first ending was probably the best but I'm a sap for happy endings, so whatever.
I feel the same way. Really enjoyed the book. My favorite parts were Spoiler Yumi interacting in Painter's world. Any interaction with Design. I found the cryptic in human disguise running a restaurant on a foreign present to be awesome. Would have really scratched my Cosmere nerd itch if Design had said anything about changing who it was originally bonded to
Just finished Rhythm of War. Loved it but Oathbringer is still my favorite, followed closely by Words. Any of you sickos interested in doing a book club re-read starting with WOK?
Isn’t it incredible that you can plan out these things because of his diligence in releasing the books. Probably the thing I appreciate most about Brandon
Yeah he just did interview on shardcast and said hes done with the second section of 3 plus needing epilogues/interludes. Dude is a true machine. Also he said the working title for Mistborn 3 is 'Ghost Bloods'