anything worth reading from this fat gentleman?

>>24549761 (OP)
The silence speaks volumes

>>24549804
XD

>>24549761 (OP)
No. He writes slop for mental children.

>>24549761 (OP)
All of it. From Mistborn to Wind. It's all good stuff. Only the biggest poltard dismiss it and call it slop. There's a reason why he's the biggest fantasy author today.

>>24549761 (OP)
filters /lit/ who can only enjoy surface level stuff like prose and not the deeper stuff

>>24549804
>>24549958
retards

>>24549964
>>24549977
based

>>24549761 (OP)
Not really unless you just want to read something entertaining while you relax.

>>24549761 (OP)
capeshit of genreslop

>>24549761 (OP)
I have not read a word of Sanderson and I will fucking never purely based on his physiognomy.

>>24549977
>surface level stuff
>deeper stuff
Truly the expansive vocab one would expect from a brando sando fan.

>>24549761 (OP)
People said that his novela is the best thing he's written and that if you don't like it then you shouldn't read anything else. It was fine. 3/5 at best.

He knows how to line up expectations and knock them down (his writing lectures focus on this a lot!) but the prose itself kind of sucks and his whole "magic has rules" is pretty boring to me.

I have two friends who read Sanderson and they both regret it. They both say, "It's not good but I'm hooked and going to read the whole series." A third friend of mine tried it and, like me, had the self respect to leave Sanderson alone.

>>24551059
See? Filtered just as you're filtered by his prose

>>24550000
Writing fast, also must mean that he sacrifices quality.

>>24551328
>Uses “filtered” twice in the same sentence
>Why not just say: ”See? Filtered by both my post and his prose.”
I know redundancy is your favorite Sando quality, but not everyone has the memory of a goldfish. Be a little more concise, and maybe others would take your midwit opinions seriously.

>>24551878
>and others might value your midwit opinions
Speaking of being concise
Didn't ask for your autobiography

>>24551787
Does a mathematician sacrifice quality when he solves a math problem faster than you? Speed and quality of writing are almost entirely unrelated. Many "good" writers just torment themselves rewriting sentences or plotlines that are similar in quality because they are mentally ill and afraid of public criticism.

I think Mistborn (the first trilogy + Secret History) is his most complete work in the sense that its can be enjoyed on its own and maintain a relatively even quality (even if it stalls a bit near the middle).
His major early-ish standalones books Elantris and Warbreaker are alright, Warbreaker being probably the best of the two.

His later smallish books "secret projects" can be decent if you're into his greater universe but I can't imagine getting much out of them otherwise. You'd get a meatier experience with pretty much any other YA novel.

His magnum opus is obviously Stormlight. It's hard to recommend because it really cristallize everything that goes wrong with his writing style over the years. Not the action sequences themselves (bit anime-ish but whatever, it's fun).
>his obsession with a bad protagonist that no one likes but he just can't accept it, surely if he puts her more in front of the page people will finally like her
>the atrociously slow speed that makes it clear each book could lose 100k words easily
>a general downgrade of the quality of the prose (which was never anything but utilitarian to begin with), and especially the dialogues, good god. I hate how he seemingly abuses italics and one-sentence paragraphs, they are merely tricks you use when you believe your readers are too dumb to understand whatever meager gravitas you managed to put on your page
There's a clear downgrade between the first three books and books 4 and 5. I think this can mostly be pinned on two things
>He doesn't rely on editors as much or/and has surrounded himself with yes men happy to let the goose shit its eggs as long as someone pays for them
>He writes far too much for the wiki part of his community so he use his (admittedly detailed and well thought-out) magic system in specialized way so the forums can analyse all of it later on, rather than keeping simpler, but more emotionally investing, solutions.

His stuff isn't really worth reading, but it is nice to listen to his stuff in audio book form while driving

>>24553035
>Does a mathematician sacrifice quality when he solves a math problem faster than you?
Writing books and solving math problems are not the same. Are you saying that Sanderson is delivering quality with his work?

The Emperor's Soul and the original Mistborn.

i enjoy plenty of genre fiction; fantasy, scifi. but this guys stuff is like...pure frosting for whoever composes his audience. to me, his writing is something between paperback tor novels and LitRPG webnovels. it's really vapid and gay.

>>24549977
Deeper stuff like..?

>>24549958
This, if you think otherwise you newer read his books.

>>24553319
worldbuilding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3I8PPzhiO0

>>24554770
Or "worldbuilding"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss2b3x8mwlQ

>>24549958
Why seething

nah

>>24553097
>I hate how he seemingly abuses italics and one-sentence paragraphs, they are merely tricks you use when you believe your readers are too dumb to understand whatever meager gravitas you managed to put on your page
They're cues for the audiobook readers. A lot of his stylistic choices make more sense when you realize that he considers the audiobook and not the text to be the definitive version.

>>24549761 (OP)

>but eat, this fatman. DID.

>>24553035
>writing is a problem to be solved
The absolute state of sandertards