• kionay@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        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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            29 days 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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              29 days ago

              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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                  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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                    29 days 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.)

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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              29 days ago

              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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                29 days ago

                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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                    29 days 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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                    29 days ago

                    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