/lit/ - Literature

If you liked one painting by a certain artist, would you buy another?

>>1999936

You are aware you just asked me the same question in a different context which has no relevance to me?

>>1999942
Your answer to my question should be the same as your answer to your question.

Mistborn series and Warbreaker are decent. Not sure about his other series, though.

>>1999946

I wouldn't pay for a painting to begin with I don't enjoy them.

If where getting deep about this you should compare it to music and if I would buy two different albums from the same artist if I liked one album.

And even then it would depend on whether or not the singing style (in this case the writing style) was in fact responsible for my enjoyment of the book or the characters and events taking place!

In short what I am asking then is The Mistborn series from Brandon Sanderson written in the same manner of the The Way of Kings?

>>1999954

All of his works are worth reading, in my opinion. Except for his YA stuff. I haven't read that.

He does a good job with coming up with unique premises, plots, or magic systems.

I've never really appreciated his writing style, though. I just don't like how he puts a sentence together.

Also expect twists like that at the end of The Way of Kings in every other chapter of all of his books.

>>1999959
I'm not that anon, but... your question is kind of ridiculous, although not rare on 4chan. You're crowdsourcing an answer to a question you can answer 10,000x better by googling the book.

>Will I like this book?
>I dunno, anon, because I have no idea who you are and you have no idea who I am. So, uh, why not take the time you took to post this entirely unnecessary thing and find a bit of the book and read it and make your own decision on this entirely trivial and personal matter, maybe?

...sorry, this stuff is just everywhere and it MAKES NO SENSE.

>>1999999

GET

>>1999985
mustbenewhere

>>1999970
>Twists in every other chapter
See, the thing about Sanderson that bothers me is that it seems as if each book is incredibly monotonous and tedious until say, the last one hundred pages. Then shit ALWAYS happens and gets real.

I'd really like to get a copy of his drafts from college or whatever that mention the Shardworld related stuff. I enjoy how he's subtlety tying in all of his books into one universe.

>>1999978
Our opinions mean nothing if we cannot compare them to others and have insight from other sources.

Googling the book will give me SOMEONE ELSES opinion of the book or a review written by SOMEONE ELSE.

I would rather that SOMEONE ELSE not be a paid reporter and rather a stranger who comes looking to discuss literature.
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>>1999970

Like how Dalinarswapped his Shardblade for Bridgemen or how Kaladin gets storm powers? or how Dalinar tells the king hes practically going to fuck his mother or maybe How soulcasting doesnt need a fabrial?

I didn't see a twist at all....

/end sarcasm

>>2000013
Yeah, maybe, or it might give you some of the book:
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/library/catalog/Mistborn_Sample-Chapters

Your mind=blown

>>2000013

Whenever possible he always tries to squeeze them into the last line of the chapter/book.

It is quite a lot like watching a movie and having this video play at the end of every scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40

>>2000013
>Kaladin gets storm powers?

Man I really need to fucking reread that book. I read it once after I bought it just after it released and I haven't touched it since.

>>2000020

I don't want to read any other book than the one I'm reading.

Kind of habit.

>>2000026
After being left out in the highstorm Kaladin feels weird etc and the sphere given to him for good luck was dun despite the highstorm being known for recharging them. After a while Kaladin realises he can control it after various bridge runs and when he rescues Dalinar and Adolin he absorbed the light from the spheres in the beards of the Parashendi and used it to enhance his already amazing fighting skills saving Dalinar from the shardbearer. His ability's are the same as Szeths

I thought The Way of Kings was better than Sanderson's other works. The Mistborn trilogy was passable, but the prose was a bit different, and the characters more two dimensional. The system for 'magic' was very cool though and the action was awesome, so if you're into that you should definitely give it a go. The story as a whole felt somehow a bit more...forced and bluntly arranged, for all its major twists. It felt like a hastily arranged heist movie, only in huge proportions. Also, the story that begins after book one was superior to that of the first installment.

I was always kind of bothered by Sanderson's refusal to treat love and lust realistically in the books. It's too sanitized and idealistic to feel real. I guess that could be attributed to his religious background.

>>2000047
>The story as a whole felt somehow a bit more...forced and bluntly arranged, for all its major twists. It felt like a hastily arranged heist movie, only in huge proportions.

I feel like that a lot with Sanderson's work. His plots often feel more "constructed" than anything else. Still fun to read, though.

>I was always kind of bothered by Sanderson's refusal to treat love and lust realistically in the books. It's too sanitized and idealistic to feel real. I guess that could be attributed to his religious background.

FACT: No one EVER has sex in a Sanderson novel without getting married to the other person first.

>>2000047
>I was always kind of bothered by Sanderson's refusal to treat love and lust realistically in the books. It's too sanitized and idealistic to feel real. I guess that could be attributed to his religious background.

The thing is, that's probably what he legitimately believes love/lust to be like. He's never going to stop writing it like that, because as far as he's concerned he's being perfectly realistic.

>>2000068
>>2000060

Please be aware that the time tWoK is set is similar to the medieval era of our universe.

Everyone treats marriage like diplomacy and sex is a result of marriage and if it isn't its to be done by wenches.

Also note that lords even in public would act idealist for the sake of appearances to the public. Some of that is undoubtedly going to flow over into private life, similar to how I fake my cheery-ness at work to customers and bosses bubbles over into personal life with loathsome friends.

>>2000076
True enough, but i.e. in mistborn there were barely any times where a pov character had thoughts that could be labeled even vaguely sexual, while being heads over heels in love as a young adult. It's not a major flaw of course but leaves an unnatural feel to it.

>>2000095

I don't know, Adolins many courtships was good. The whole idea of him bouncing woman to woman isn't idealist.

I'll look forward to the new Dalinar relationship in the second book in late 2012.

>>2000104
I was talking more about Mistborn. In TWoK it wasn't as noticeable. In fact, it was better than mistborn in almost all respects, except pace.

>>2000121

IIRC he's planned 12 books at this point.

Dear lord, imagine if he gets trilogy creep...

>>2000132
Nah, its supposed to be 10 books, and he's got a shitload of books after that, including a Shardworld 'epic'.

>>2000156
>>2000132
It'll be a looong wait for a conclusion to Stormlight Archives, if even if he keeps the planned pace of a book per 12-18 months. He's quite a fast writer though, and always meets deadlines so hopefully there won't be a song of ice and fire type blunders. He managed to push out two 800-1000 page monsters in 1.5 years, which is promising.

>>2000184
I hope that's his planned pace. It'll be rough at the start because of Wheel of Time. :\

>>2000217
While it's nice that someone writes a conclusion to WoT, I wish Sanderson just put down that piece of shit and went on to Stormlight Archives, leaving A Memory of Light to some dickhead who can write a number of half coherent sentences until it reached the ending that Jordan himself wrote.

see >>1997852
for mistborn

in my opinion read everything from him

>2000239
>I want a series that I don't love to be shit so i can get the books i want faster

faggot

>>1999934
Might as well try it.
If they are writing in a different genre though from what you read, then it becomes iffy.

>>2000095
do you always bitch about lack of romance in a good story?

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