Nathan
>This is a reread<
What a breeze for me on this reread; got through it in like 3 days. (I listened at 4x speed, I am more familiar with Michael Kramer and Kate Readings voices then my own parents' voices (≧∇≦)/ ) I find Sanderson so clever still.
The characters are all so compelling, that is why Sanderson is so great, it's not the “worldbuilding”, it's the character arcs. The point of the worldbuilding is to embody themes and to illustrate the characters. For example Kaladin uses magic to draw arrows to him, the point isn't that oh wow that a logical way to use the magic, it's to illustrate Kaladins self sacrificing nature. Okay just wanted to rant a little about this because I think people can lose the forest for the trees when it comes to this subject.
It's unfortunate that Shallan's story is so detatched from the main one, but alas that is the nature of epic fantasy.
Lirin's story is so sad a essentially good man, who is put in unfair situations. I've seen a lot of hate at him, but his teachings are the reason Kaladin makes some of his greatest moral decisions.
I'm still in love with Dallinar
Years of storm light research, and still no practical reason to have an archive. 9.5/10
“Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination”
>This is a reread<
What a breeze for me on this reread; got through it in like 3 days. (I listened at 4x speed, I am more familiar with Michael Kramer and Kate Readings voices then my own parents' voices (≧∇≦)/ ) I find Sanderson so clever still.
The characters are all so compelling, that is why Sanderson is so great, it's not the “worldbuilding”, it's the character arcs. The point of the worldbuilding is to embody themes and to illustrate the characters. For example Kaladin uses magic to draw arrows to him, the point isn't that oh wow that a logical way to use the magic, it's to illustrate Kaladins self sacrificing nature. Okay just wanted to rant a little about this because I think people can lose the forest for the trees when it comes to this subject.
It's unfortunate that Shallan's story is so detatched from the main one, but alas that is the nature of epic fantasy.
Lirin's story is so sad a essentially good man, who is put in unfair situations. I've seen a lot of hate at him, but his teachings are the reason Kaladin makes some of his greatest moral decisions.
I'm still in love with Dallinar
Years of storm light research, and still no practical reason to have an archive. 9.5/10
“Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination”