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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (22 children)

I hope it will be based on Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (20 children)

    I can't possibly think of a more pretentious series happening

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (19 children)

    the fans may be insufferable but neither the author nor the work itself holds itself in as high a regard

    personally I'm excited to see movie and tv adaptations of the cosmere. there's a lot of potential.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    What's wrong with the fans? I've heard he has some books worth reading but never had someone demanding I read them or something

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    the fans aren't insufferable as a rule, but any fanbase large enough will have a loud minority that is insufferable, and sanderson has a large fanbase

    I bet had Tolkien write TLotR in 2000, well into the information age, we would see exactly the same thing

    excellent world building, but plots that are fine

    people really like good world building. like, really really like it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    That's because they probably think you're not intelligent enough to understand the genius

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Are we talking about the same guy? The general view on Brandon Sanderson is that he's not an extremely gifted technical writer. He's commonly said to have some of the most basic prose. Like you can like his World building and all that but I mean the writing itself is just about a step above pedestrian really. I don't think that's a contentious Topic at all.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I was referring to the hardcore fans

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nah man. I don't even think hardcore fans are like that. Hell I got like a dozen of his books on my shelf right now and I think his dialogue is downright cringey. Dude is a cookie cutter writer. I've been on his fan forums I've watched his YouTube videos, I never seen nothing like that.

    If you've encountered that kind of person that's not your normal hardcore fan. You've encountered some like hyper psychotic Ultra Fringe group of people. Utterly minute.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Sorry I should have said Fanboy or something maybe? The people I know who are obsessed with his shit are the same people who are like dude you gotta listen to this band, they're called tool. And I'm like yeah they're cool. Only to find out I apparently just didn't get it.

    (Don't get me wrong, tool is great. But they didn't invent math rock or anything. That's just an example.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    As far as I understand dude just writes books quickly. I must have missed the groupies. That said I'm sure I'll happen across reading one of his books eventually because I know some are in the genres is enjoy. I remember enjoying Peter V Brett, Karen Miller, and Brent Weeks years back.. and his name seems to fall into those type of schtick

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Lol I have a few friends that hold this guy so high. I've read a few books of his but it wasn't my thing. They insisted I obviously didn't get it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Bruh they've been connected since the beginning. He wrote like 15 books before one actually got published. One of his unpublished books (which is available for free on his site) has the beginning of it.

    Are you sure it's just it wasn't as edge-lord dark after Mistborn?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Oh that sounds like a nightmare to make it work and not limit the creation of most new works. This is the first time I've heard about that.

    Shit people like Patrick Rothfuss wrote himself into a corner in only a couple books, attaching series is asking for stumps. Just let works be free and seperate

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If building a world limits your options, you're really not doing it correctly.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Its not building a world, it's merging several worlds and then saying the physics all match up and the magic only works in one way or another while not working in other areas. Dudes got like 80 books or some shit. Unless he was really just using the same stuff over and over which would get tired by the second or third series, I just don't see how it would blend well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    if you read them you'll see that they do blend well

    it sounds like you won't, but I have read everything published and the numerous magic systems all feel very unique, but are based on a very sound central logic

    one of his foundational tenets in writing magic systems is something like exploring the limits of a magic system before you expand it, and he absolutely does that

    mistborn's second trilogy is a perfect example of that, there's not new magic, or at least not much of it, but a remixing of what was in the first trilogy and all of the implications of that remixing was more than enough for the second trilogy

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Yeah The Name of the Wind was supposed to be 3 or 4 books and he got through 2 and just hit a dead spot I guess. Reviews are mixed but I liked the first one. Second I think got a little weird but alright. Many didn't like it because they say the character was "good at everything no matter what" and I disagree with that because the story is a biography being written about him and he (a stage performer born to traveling circus members) is telling the story. .... So yes. The dude isn't going to say he was shit at telling left from right or math. He's going to recount everything as being through "rose tinted glasses" because that's the story he wants people to read about him.

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