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Brother I dropped the book in the first few chapters when it first came out 17 years ago. I don't remember jack shit other than he was in the sand tower taking out sand niggers or something.
What are you reading right now?
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lmao I don't remember anything about a sand tower. Genuinely excited now. I will report back with each book I finish.
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I know that I probably finished the third book, but I remember absolutely nothing from it, and then I think I'd lost interest at the time when the translation of the final book came out (I didn't know English at the time).
If I read the first book now, it would probably read exactly like something that a teenage wrote, but as a kid I thought it was really cool that someone so young could write such a thick book.
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>when you accidentally give the book you dropped a glowing recommendation
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I'm over 100 pages in now. Honestly agree. He is really thorough. I'm in the middle of chapter 6 of Mistborn, and it's all just planning and logistics of this rebellion before it's even begun. It's very impressive.
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I'm excited for you! That first mistborn book is really special. Really impressive how he manages to create a world with entirely unique people, creatures, and magic systems. Have you met a mist wraith yet?
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They've been mentioned, one went after Vin though got stopped off screen if I remember correctly. I'm reading it on my work breaks, so things get jumbled a little.
Ric Flair Woooo
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Mistborn was a fun vacation read for me. Sitting by a pool drinking an ice cold beer, I really got into that world. I will say I was underwhelmed with the book as I had a friend hype it up too much. I was expecting to be pulled in to something great, not something that was just fun.
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The Recovery of Rose Gold / Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
I have this rather odd habit of being completely oblivious to the furor around the current "it" book, but randomly stumbling across it several years after release and not realising that it was this whole thing until I look it up. I'm about half way through and I'm simultaneously bored and vaguely creeped out. Nearly every character in it so far has been awful in such a banal, vaguely grimy kind of way that it's exasperating, not to mention that I've met real life counterparts of both of the main characters multiple times and these are not experiences that I care to relive.
Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling by Aphrodite Jones
The case is compelling and Jones is an acceptable writer, but the amount of spelling mistakes and formatting errors in this book is ridiculous.
I have this rather odd habit of being completely oblivious to the furor around the current "it" book, but randomly stumbling across it several years after release and not realising that it was this whole thing until I look it up. I'm about half way through and I'm simultaneously bored and vaguely creeped out. Nearly every character in it so far has been awful in such a banal, vaguely grimy kind of way that it's exasperating, not to mention that I've met real life counterparts of both of the main characters multiple times and these are not experiences that I care to relive.
Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling by Aphrodite Jones
The case is compelling and Jones is an acceptable writer, but the amount of spelling mistakes and formatting errors in this book is ridiculous.
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That was a Steel Inquisitor.
The mist wraiths are the monsters who roam the mists at night
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The King in Yellow by Robert. W. Chambers.
It’s from the Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and The Supernatural so it’s a cheap and cheerful version. I already have a few other books published by them and they’re not a bad line.
It’s from the Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and The Supernatural so it’s a cheap and cheerful version. I already have a few other books published by them and they’re not a bad line.
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I like their line but they're pretty uncommon in America from my experience. I only have their edition of the M. R. James Ghost Stories book.
Womble of Wimbledon
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz. I've been on a real WWI/post-WWI kick lately.
It was kind of frustrating. It is basically an apologist's take on the Weimar Republic. It focused on what the author thought was good about the Republic - the culture, the architecture, the democracy, the social reforms - while still acknowledging the problems with it. The problem is the book is very imbalanced.
There is way (way, way) too much written about the architecture which the author clearly has a hard-on for, as well as certain cultural "achievements" like the philosophy of Heidegger and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, but massive socio-political issues like hyperinflation and the Great Depression are kind of skated over.
The author also posits that the reason the democracy failed was because it was sabotaged by conservative elements who handed power to the Nazis - but didn't really go into why the social reforms and policies might have been unpopular, and pushed the average German towards the Nazis. I have the feeling the author was a socialist and he pretty nakedly gives the Weimar left a lot more of a positive spin than the right.
It was well-written and nicely illustrated, and it left me wanting to know more which I guess is a good thing. I suppose it is what you'd call revisionist history. I think I'd prefer to read a more straightforward social/political history as it felt like a lot of questions were left unanswered by this book.
It was kind of frustrating. It is basically an apologist's take on the Weimar Republic. It focused on what the author thought was good about the Republic - the culture, the architecture, the democracy, the social reforms - while still acknowledging the problems with it. The problem is the book is very imbalanced.
There is way (way, way) too much written about the architecture which the author clearly has a hard-on for, as well as certain cultural "achievements" like the philosophy of Heidegger and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, but massive socio-political issues like hyperinflation and the Great Depression are kind of skated over.
The author also posits that the reason the democracy failed was because it was sabotaged by conservative elements who handed power to the Nazis - but didn't really go into why the social reforms and policies might have been unpopular, and pushed the average German towards the Nazis. I have the feeling the author was a socialist and he pretty nakedly gives the Weimar left a lot more of a positive spin than the right.
It was well-written and nicely illustrated, and it left me wanting to know more which I guess is a good thing. I suppose it is what you'd call revisionist history. I think I'd prefer to read a more straightforward social/political history as it felt like a lot of questions were left unanswered by this book.
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I found it rather dull and don't understand the praise it receives. And I love horror like Lovecraft and Arthur Machen.
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For the Brando Sando people here
I have yet to touch anything from him, but I've consistently heard good things.
Until the recent book went pozzed.
Now, I heard from people who aren't the kind to complain about that, that the latest book was so disappointing that it actually harms the entire series', and they no longer care about his work enough to keep up with him and prioritize reading future books. They'll read them somewhere down the line but they lost a lot of respect and interest from it.
Do you agree? And if so, is it still worth it to start reading him?
I have yet to touch anything from him, but I've consistently heard good things.
Until the recent book went pozzed.
Now, I heard from people who aren't the kind to complain about that, that the latest book was so disappointing that it actually harms the entire series', and they no longer care about his work enough to keep up with him and prioritize reading future books. They'll read them somewhere down the line but they lost a lot of respect and interest from it.
Do you agree? And if so, is it still worth it to start reading him?
if the light takes us
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Nobody asked, but I'm under the opinion that none of his work is worth reading. If you like cliche, generic, heroic fantasy then Sando might be worth while. Even to people who like that kinda stuff I wouldn't recommend because his books are a bloated corpse. I'd be more likely to point you towards Michael J. Sullivan, he's heard of the concept of brevity. If you really like teen angst, poop jokes, lawl epic pancakes, repetitive character arcs, endless scenes and conversations without substance or purpose, flashy actions scenes without stakes that are written like your buddy describing that awesome movie he watched last week, then Sanderson is just for you. A lot of people seem to really like his world building, but idk, just watch lore videos of YouTube.
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Seriously some of the best fantasy ever made.
Yea its bad. One of the 3 gods is literally a fat black woman, who also happens to be a dragon.
Yea he pretty much undermined one of the greatest series he ever wrote by inserting trans and gay shit into the story. He also makes a very ham fisted comparison to Native Americans ( I call them Savages) and it totally falls flat.
The Mistborn books are still worth reading, but I'm 90% thru Wind and Truth and its rough. While it has its moments, they're few and far between.
Its very frustrating that he took something really beautiful and unique and proceeded to shit it up with woke bullshit.
I can't recommend The Stormlight Archive anymore. It used to be my most recommended book of his, I've personally bought at least 10 copies to give away to friends and family.
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Like I said, the people I heard from don't really complain about the woke shit* but rather about cheap copouts to several previously established story threads, and a clear lack of urgency in a story that's (if I understood correctly) is set in the days before a pivotal scheduled event; several characters being suddenly very self-aware of their psychological issues (described as "watching an Instagram reel full of mental health influencers"), and a bizarre turn to modern speech and concepts. Characters talking in ways and with terminology that don't fit the setting. One character, they said, even went "I'm the world's first therapist".
*They did say that the LGBTQ+ representation did feel very performative, like "see, here it is! praise me for it!". But they didn't say it with the full-throated disgust it warrants.