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Your crappy taste in books means nothing Cannoli Send a noteboard - 30/09/2012 09:23:51 PM
Jealous, so very jealous.

Do you two know how absurd you sound? First of all, I very much knew who B-Sand was before he took over. Secondly, if WoT helped his fan base, it certainly has nothing to do with his staying power. His books are very good and I really don't care for the WoT books he has done. I much prefer his own work. It disgusts me how you two dismiss his success, as though being a bestseller is some type of fluke. Get off your high horses and write your own successful fantasy series.


Let me get this straight - success at his job does not make Eli Manning a good quarterback. Yet, success at his job means that anyone who is unsatisfied with Brandon Sanderson's performance on a highly subjective scale, must be jealous or have some other motive for criticizing him?

Furthermore, your response to our observation that writing success has a great deal to do with luck - is to demand that we reproduce that fortuitous turn of events that has benefited Sanderson? That's like us saying "Well he won five straight coin flips due to luck" and you responding "Wow, you must be jealous! Shut up until YOU manage to win five flips in a row!"

It's good to see that your one consistent trait is a complete lack of logical consistency, whether in assessing entertainers, or in following arguments.
Cannoli
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If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't. Cannoli - 28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM 6087 Views
John McCain has a similar proclivity. *NM* RandAllThor - 28/09/2012 12:26:29 PM 1291 Views
The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors Marshall - 28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM 1403 Views
Potential customer = best kind of friend *NM* Artsapat - 28/09/2012 02:20:29 PM 840 Views
I agree in this particular instance. Nate - 28/09/2012 03:38:15 PM 1784 Views
Maybe they have been Quakers all along? *NM* dadof5 - 28/09/2012 03:39:24 PM 944 Views
Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic.... DomA - 28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM 1642 Views
Now see, here I don't fully agree, or at least think it's a matter of taste. Nate - 28/09/2012 07:21:09 PM 2358 Views
Sorry, that's just not true... fionwe1987 - 28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM 1432 Views
A few things. Nate - 29/09/2012 02:40:47 AM 1796 Views
Great rebuttal! Fionwe got burned! *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:00:41 PM 1007 Views
Re: A few things. DomA - 30/09/2012 06:07:57 PM 1970 Views
I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... fionwe1987 - 28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM 1504 Views
Re: I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting... Cannoli - 29/09/2012 01:51:20 AM 1662 Views
Yes! fionwe1987 - 29/09/2012 02:26:39 AM 1617 Views
This is one of my biggest pet peeves as well Deadsy - 29/09/2012 04:56:53 AM 1646 Views
There are people who say that? Nate - 29/09/2012 05:16:58 AM 1503 Views
I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter Sidious - 28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM 1717 Views
I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful" darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM 1728 Views
To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM 1405 Views
Which is the question I brought up in another thread darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:29:01 PM 1299 Views
Yes. The last time it happened to me it ended with the taxi driver fined by the NYPD. Tom - 29/09/2012 07:05:26 AM 1395 Views
The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... Shannow - 29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM 1642 Views
Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot? Cannoli - 29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM 1695 Views
Both of you disgust me Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM 1591 Views
This is not jealousy, it's being upset Marshall - 29/09/2012 07:52:51 PM 1482 Views
They could have hired a ghost writer. They chose not to. *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 09:34:27 PM 10013 Views
Your crappy taste in books means nothing Cannoli - 30/09/2012 09:23:51 PM 1995 Views
When did I ever say Eli Manning wasn't a good QB? Dark Knight - 01/10/2012 03:40:21 PM 1382 Views
To be fair... Sidious - 29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM 1464 Views
True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM 1369 Views
B-Sand is not a ghost writer Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM 2747 Views
Didn't say he should. darius_sedai - 29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM 2057 Views
I mostly agree with this. Nate - 29/09/2012 09:36:38 PM 1731 Views
What is it you want? Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM 1616 Views
We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM 6519 Views
Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM* Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM 685 Views
It is what it is darius_sedai - 30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM 1222 Views
Those are not remotely the same thing Cannoli - 30/09/2012 09:14:49 PM 1503 Views
But they are the same in this instance darius_sedai - 30/09/2012 10:01:59 PM 1452 Views
You do know this isn't his series, right? Dark Knight - 29/09/2012 04:19:00 PM 1917 Views
Do you see us going to Mistborn boards to rip his series? Part of the problem is what you say. Cannoli - 29/09/2012 09:57:54 PM 2307 Views
Apologies for not being clear: I'm only referring to WoT. Haven't read any of his other work... Shannow - 30/09/2012 06:56:08 PM 1739 Views
I'd agree that I like his original works more than his WoT books beetnemesis - 01/10/2012 06:17:33 PM 1521 Views
It's fairly simple.... DomA - 30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM 1694 Views
Thanks for that insightful response... Shannow - 30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM 1335 Views
Try reading something instead of judging. I recommend the Mistborn trilogy *NM* Dark Knight - 01/10/2012 01:14:24 AM 656 Views
Forgotten Realms is big on clever spells and magic systems? Fanatic-Templar - 01/10/2012 05:27:05 AM 1310 Views
It's more... DomA - 01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM 2074 Views
Did you read Way of Kings? VTHokie - 03/10/2012 09:14:43 PM 1561 Views
No, nothing but the prologue DomA - 04/10/2012 02:56:14 AM 1349 Views
Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this... RugbyPlayingAshaman - 11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM 1247 Views
I have an acquaintance who uses "my friend" as punctuation of every sentence. Kaldric - 05/10/2012 02:47:40 PM 1932 Views
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