I haven't read the rest of Mistborn so he may have improved there.
Chas Send a noteboard - 13/01/2010 01:08:46 AM
The entire Mistborn series, as a whole, is a rather high quality epic fantasy series. It features a great magic system, good world building, a few interesting lead characters, good to great plotting, and some brilliant sequences and scenes. Highly entertaining series.
Elantris has some flaws, but it has a truly great idea as the foundation. The book could have been brilliant, but it falls short in both its dialogue and the characterization of nearly all but 2 characters.
Warbreaker is a truly entertaining novel with yet another interesting magic system, a lot of humor, and an engaging method of PoV and storytelling that lead to differing ideas of what is actually going on in the background of the story. It falls short of being truly excellent, but it is a very entertaining read.
Sanderson hasn't written a perfect, or even a near perfect novel. He is growing in the craft, visibly so in nearly every single book that he publishes. He is an extremely imaginative and creative writer, and his actual writing is getting better with each project. My personal bottom line on Sanderson is that I've never not been entertained by one of his books.
Elantris has some flaws, but it has a truly great idea as the foundation. The book could have been brilliant, but it falls short in both its dialogue and the characterization of nearly all but 2 characters.
Warbreaker is a truly entertaining novel with yet another interesting magic system, a lot of humor, and an engaging method of PoV and storytelling that lead to differing ideas of what is actually going on in the background of the story. It falls short of being truly excellent, but it is a very entertaining read.
Sanderson hasn't written a perfect, or even a near perfect novel. He is growing in the craft, visibly so in nearly every single book that he publishes. He is an extremely imaginative and creative writer, and his actual writing is getting better with each project. My personal bottom line on Sanderson is that I've never not been entertained by one of his books.
Elantris was actually my favourite of the ones I have read.
I think my biggest issue is that personally I'm not a big fan of magic systems and while I enjoy world building it's not a make or break detail for me. I like characters and they are definitely his weakest area.
I don't think he's bad and he's certainly entertaining- but I'd rather spend my time reading something else.
So, about this Brad Sandysun guy.
- 18/12/2009 10:34:10 PM
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Mistborn. Absolutely.
- 18/12/2009 11:47:10 PM
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Honestly? Neither. *NM*
- 19/12/2009 02:06:16 AM
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Another book, or is he bad? Your reply is not very helpful. *NM*
- 19/12/2009 02:46:50 AM
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I would call him average.
- 19/12/2009 03:30:24 AM
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Rather strongly disagree with this.
- 21/12/2009 04:41:01 PM
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I haven't read the rest of Mistborn so he may have improved there.
- 13/01/2010 01:08:46 AM
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Mistborn is a better story, but do you want to read a series or a stand-alone? *NM*
- 19/12/2009 05:45:37 PM
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If that mattered a lot to me, don't you think I'd already have chosen? 
- 19/12/2009 06:24:25 PM
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- 19/12/2009 06:24:25 PM
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"Neither" is the best recommendation so far, but I enjoyed Elantris more.
- 20/12/2009 05:26:15 AM
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Mistborn. I'm honestly surprised at everyone that seems to not like his stuff. *NM*
- 20/12/2009 06:35:46 AM
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Mistborn or Warbreaker. Elantris was neat, but I like those two better. All three
- 21/12/2009 04:10:14 PM
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Warbreaker is better as a standalone. Mistborn if you want a series.
- 21/12/2009 10:48:46 PM
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