@Shagnak @JFarrell71 do either of you recommend another Brandon Sanderson novel/series as a starter over “The Way of Kings”?
I’d like to try out something of his this year.
I’d like to try out something of his this year.
I'd recommend either:@Shagnak @JFarrell71 do either of you recommend another Brandon Sanderson novel/series as a starter over “The Way of Kings”?
I’d like to try out something of his this year.
I started this a few weeks ago on audio book. He's an amazing writer but the books are LONG. I think it was close to 50 hours and it wasn't until about hour 45 that I started to figure out what was going on. The rest is all world and character building. It's well done, but a slog. I started the second book last week, it moves a lot faster so far.@Shagnak @JFarrell71 do either of you recommend another Brandon Sanderson novel/series as a starter over “The Way of Kings”?
I’d like to try out something of his this year.
Mistborn ultimate was really good, but it took me a while to get into it. Those first dozen chapters or so just didn't hit with me at all.Another Sanderson series that might be worth your time checking out is Mistborn. Again, his style of writing seems aimed at a far younger audience than I'm often comfortable with, yet I enjoyed Mistborn more than some of his other offerings.
Love that series. "The Land" was very memorable to me. I also love how different it is between the first and second trilogies. I haven't read that last 4-book series he did. I wish I had more time for reading.Lord Foul's Bane, Volume 1 of Thomas Covenant theRapistUnbeliever.
I last read this when I was 14, 38 years ago. I got gifted some of the books from the more recent Thomas Covenant series, so I've decided I'm going to do a re-read of them all. Not all at once - I'll alternate between them and other stuff.
Stephen Donaldson is like the antithesis of Sanderson's vanilla style, what with his dropping in of the occasional 50c word that you're not quite sure fits, but you might have to reach for the dictionary to find out for sure.
The result is prose that is slightly ugly, but boy is it evocative.
There's always that risk that something you read so long ago has been struck by the suck-fairy, but I'm enjoying this a lot, barring some minor hitches (e.g., Lord Foul's melodramatic monologue, fairly early on in the book, makes me cringe a bit). Looking forward to the rest of it.
When and where do the events in that book take place in relation to Howey's stories?I finished Going Dark, which is the first book of the Silo 49 series written by Ann Christy, in the same fictional world as Hugh Howey's Wool series.