I’m not denying that Brandon Sanderson sells a lot of books, which is what those lists track. His aggressive mediocrity is, in many ways, precisely why he’s on those lists.

Regardless of how you feel about the author, Harry Potter is not poorly written.

Jordan who? Jordan Holmes is more into dune than the wheel of time

Nah, I love lots of popular things. But I can also separate my personal enjoyment of something from its inherent quality.

Mistborn’s actual plot is fun! I enjoyed it. That said, the books are very poorly written. Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad. Brandon Sanderson is not intellectually gifted or well-read or emotionally intelligent, etc, and that impedes his writing ability.

Would you say “How I Met Your Mother” is some incredibly well written work of art? Come on, it’s one iota removed from fart jokes.

You are just saying that it IS bad without offering any actual explanation.

How is it bad in your opinion, what specifically is an example of bad and why you think that way.

“Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad”

Is no different than saying “it’s bad” you offer nothing about your opinion other than how you feel about it, which you have already expressed and are just repeating yourself with more words.

If you don’t care to explain your opinion beyond stating what you’re opinion is then your opinion isn’t worth much to anyone else which makes your comment a waste of time and energy. A waste of your time and energy as well as everyone else’s

Perhaps you only wanted wanted attention though as your only motive which if it’s in fact what you wanted then congratulations on that

Even if I explained in painstaking detail how Sanderson mixes metaphors or fumbles diction, what’s the point?

Honestly, go read a few thousand books, then revisit Mistborn and see for yourself. Or maybe make friends with a literature professor and ask them to explain it to you using tiny words.

You chose to express your opinion for a reason. You chose communicate it to other people by the medium of Lemmy which exists so that PEOPLE can talk to other people.

This isn’t a diary or a journal.

The point would be to help other people understand what the fuck you mean with your words you chose to string together, Jesse.

I’ve been reading for almost 40 years and I’m asking you to explain what you meant. Initially because I’ve read those books and many others and it was anything other than clear to me why you hold the opinion you hold.

Asking you to explain yourself and you can only say go spend literally decades reading other things if you didn’t implicitly understand why I said what I said.

Hope she isn’t in the games at all. Worst Sanderson character ever, by far.

‘I’ll do everything stupid because my intuition and never learn or change. Everyone will always be surprised by me doing the same things over and over.’

She’s so whiny. Like a worse prototype of Shallan.

Mistborn animation please, I don’t trust any other media to adapt this story properly

Just FYI, the series devolves into Mormon propaganda in the first trilogy. I wasn’t sure why the third book felt so off until I saw that Sanderson went to Brigham Young University. I also talked to an ex-Mormon friend of mine, and he apparently noped out halfway through the first book when he saw the signs

Yeah my son was given a copy for Christmas and reading it for the second time ever I have to agree it’s well written. Lots of little details that are simultaneously fun and world/character building.

Eg: Hagrid giving Dudley a pig tail and then grumbling that he’d tried to turn him into a pig, but it turns out he’s already so piglike he’s only missing a tail. It is funny (for a 7 year old), it builds Dudley’s character and also foreshadows Hagrid’s iffy relationship with magic.

The reason is simple. There’s a small fraction of the population who will see what I wrote about the Mistborn series and chuckle knowingly and feel less alone. Educated people are lonely. Books don’t get discussed often on Lemmy, and I suddenly see a post about Brandon Sanderson. What’s next, The Secret? Or maybe the Twilight saga? Although that’s unfair, since Meyer is a more skilled writer than Sanderson.

Do you think someone who has been eating food for 40 years needs me to explain why cheese and bread doesn’t constitute fine dining?

Come on dude I enjoy reading trash as much as anyone (a lot more than most) but that doesn’t mean I can’t be objective.

Have you ever read a litrpg? It’s like that but more. It’s a whole genre and people do it in purpose… IMO it’s bloody awful. I read one by accident once.

No, I wasn’t familiar with that term.

That being said, if you look past the “gamified” world rules, his writing is really good. I enjoy the worlds he crafts, they’re pretty unique in design, the magic systems are interesting and fresh. And his narration style is also up my alley.

I actually think his writing in the sense of his prose is mediocre. It’s like someone invented a world and then wrote a wiki on it.

It’s a conscious choice though; he has talked about “transparent” prose. (That is, in my opinion, dull prose).

But: he writes very good plots and if you like world building for its own sake, I’m sure it’s great.

I just finished the first era of mistborn. I know nothing about Mormons, how does Mormon propoganda fit into those books?

I agree 100%. I finished the dark tower series then jumped straight into mistborn. His worldbuilding and plots are superb but his prose is that of a highschooler. Not awful, but very mundane and uninspired. Also, I came up with a drinking game for the mistborn series. Take a shot everytime a character snorts or rolls their eyes. You’ll never read it sober.

I loved it as a kid. But it was one of the first books I ever read so I didn’t have much to compare it to. I tried rereading it a few years ago and it’s fine up until about the third or fourth book. Rowling loses control over the world building and the plots become boring. So many things could have been avoided if Dumbledor wasn’t so secretive about Harry’s past. There’s no reason Harry should have thought that Sirius killed his parents and was a crazed lunatic. Dumbledor just hid the truth for no reason. Petrigrew not being spotted by George and Fred was a huge oversight. There’s too many contradictions by the end of the series. Also the fourth book is just a mess with all the side plots like Hermione trying to free the house elves from Hogwarts. Hilariously no one gives a fuck at all and she just abandons trying to do the right thing. Even Harry who didn’t grow up as a wizard was just like “if they wanna be slaves then let them”. Its fine for kids, especially as a first series, but there’s too many issues to ignore.

Mistborn can be live action, I can see it being done well if Sanderson keeps a tight grip on the reigns. None of the effects would be all that difficult to show. Stormlight, on the other hand, 100% needs to be animation. Far too many scenes and effects that just would not translate well to a live action medium.

Apologies. Robert Jordan is the author of the wheel of time series and I guess im used to speaking about him with wot (wheel of time) fans or such. I do the same with asimov (foundation and robot series), herbert (dune), and such. Its a bad habit.