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Sanderson is a huge favorite of some of my friends' -- they got me to read the Mistborn series and part of Stormlight last year. Very awkward, because I didn't care for them. The writing struck me as bad to bland, and the worldbuilding/magic system was so unimpressive, bog-standard fantasy fare that I started to wonder if I'd missed something important -- because the worldbuilding is what everyone praises.

I chalked it up to, "Well, I must not like fantasy anymore." A year later, I can't tell you anything about those novels I read. It was a breath of fresh air to see this article critiquing Sanderson's writing today.

But it's by far not a perfect article, or even a good one. It descends quickly into "Sanderson is a bad writer because he's WEIRD" and makes some especially half-hearted attempts to tie in Sanderson's Mormon religion as evidence that his books are subpar. I also read an article rebutting this, which struck me as very Defensive Fanboy -- lots of "Sanderson IS SO a good writer!!" with no actual rebuttal of the examples given. But rightfully, it lambasted this author's focus on Sanderson's Mormon religion and made a good point, which is that the author mostly seems frustrated that he couldn't force Sanderson into conforming to the author's idea of a good juicy interview.



Date: 2023-03-27 06:48 pm (UTC)
kradeelav: Mordecai, FE9 (sleepyboi)
From: [personal profile] kradeelav
if it makes you feel any better, I'm also somebody who was kinda, shrug emoji on sanderson? he's not terrible as a writer (the article trying to pick on his mormon background is taking the wrong tack entirely, agreed) but he's pretty overhyped, personally.

(dragonlance novels are where it's at for classic fantasy, fite me :P (said lovingly of course)

Date: 2023-03-27 09:07 pm (UTC)
greghousesgf: (Bertie Smile)
From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
one of my favorite movies was made by Mormons so I don't hold that against them.

Date: 2023-04-02 06:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
Napoleon Dynamite!

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