Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Book • Page 10

I LOVE the YA stuff.

 

This is what got me started on The Wheel of Time which was so worth it. Also what is GN?

 

GN = the graphic novels (of White Sand). Yeah, I've been thinking about finally diving into one of the big two fantasy series I've missed, Wheel of Time or Malazan.

 

Do you hear that chanting in the distance? It sounds like

Wheel!
Of!
Time!

Wheel!
of!
time!

wheel!
of!
time!

 

Oh, duh, I was trying to think of something Sanderson specific, ha. The final 3 books that Sanderson writes for the Wheel of Time are as incredible as anything he's written by himself, I'd actually say the final book is my favorite Sanderson book but obviously that comes with an annotation.

 

Such a different experience reading Stormlight after having read the Wheel of Time seeing where Sanderson drew a lot of inspiration. I see shades of Nynaeve in a bunch of his characters which makes me so happy, ha.

 

Adding in the new POVs in Oathbringer reminded me a lot of when Jordan would random just go off for a character for 50 pages and not mention them again for six books.

 

Yeah, guess I'll start WoT this weekend (honestly completely forgot Sanderson finished up the series).

 

Yeah I read it for Sanderson but ended up finding my favorite fantasy series.

 

Just starting my first read of Wheel of Time. Massive Sanderson fan and I'm hoping WoT holds up my expectations. Mixed reviews but I'm a sucker for a good hero.

 

Aw man. Teft selling his coat coming back to haunt him really got me. Poor man.

 

I still hate Lift, but i believe in credit where it’s due.

”Do you have a weapon?”

“No, I can’t read.”

That got me to chuckle out loud. I’ll go back to hating her now.

 

Lift is the best and I don't care what anyone else thinks. She is the absolute BEST.

 

Didn't love her in Edgedancer but I thought Sanderson used her sparingly in Oathbringer and I liked her in small doses. When she was first talking about butts though I was worried.

 

I liked her enough in Oathbringer. PART 5 SPOILERS: I ended up really enjoying her pairing with Szeth/Nightblood

 

You and me both.

 

I completed this today. 55 damn hours of audiobook. My word.

I think my initial reaction is that, as a whole, I liked this book the least of the three (I’d rank the books in order of release at this point)

That said, there were some insane highs in this book. Most relating to Dalinar. And almost all of the rest came from truly unexpected places. Which made every Shallan POV that much more tedious.

The two highest highs were Dalinar’s confrontstion with Odium. When his wife forgave him, I legit cried. Ha. And then motherfucking Teft.
Now I just have to figure out all the crazy cosmere stuff I missed. I literally had no idea who Azure was meant to be and I read Warbreaker lol. I’m terrible at retaining all this stuff.

 

Think I’m going to try and re-read as much of the Cosmere as I can now that I’ve finished Oathbringer.

First up, a second time through Elantris.

 

On my re-read of Elantris.

One of the things that bugged me about the first time, and is ever more apparent the second time through, is that there is literally no reason why the prince doesn’t run up to the princess when she first enters Elantris and explains everything to her. She is surrounded by some of his closest friends. It’s really nonsensical. “Hey everyone, it’s me. I’m building something here. You don’t really understand how complicated the concept of food is here. We could use seed and tools. Not food. Oh, and some people in here are crazy and might attack you.” Lying and making up the story that they do is a useless complication.

 

I don’t think Sarene listens if he tells the truth in that scene.

 

Meaning that she wouldn’t believe him or that she wouldn’t assent to his wishes?

Surely, there is an easy way for him to prove his identity. They corresponded via those floating balls for months. There has to be things only he knows that he could use to demonstrate his identity.

And he could also prove it to his closest friends, who were also with her at the time. They met in secret plotting to overthrow the king. Again, there has to be things only he could know.

None of the “in book” explanations strike me as particularly compelling.

 

Idk what Brendon Sandman's Cashmere is, but my brother bought me a comic for Christmas called White Sand vol 1. What am I about to read?

 

It's a standalone series of comics that are a part of author's overarching universe (the cosmere). The various series in the franchise all take place on different worlds in the franchise, so no knowledge is needed of the other worlds to understand what's going on in White Sand. There are connections in other books to White Sand, and the origin and nature of the cosmere itself is slowly being revealed all over Sanderson's works, but you can 100% just read White Sand without worrying about everything else.

 

Not Cosmere, but Sanderson announced his new YA series (replacing Apocalypse Guard which didn't go as he planned), first book tentatively out Nov 8th, 2018.

Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.

Also of interest: "However, it is in the continuity of something I’ve written before. Something that isn’t the Cosmere, and isn’t the Reckoners."

https://brandonsanderson.com/officially-announcing-skyward/

Also he's posting 2017's State of the Sanderson tomorrow.

 

Doing my re-read Of Warbreaker. About 10 chapters in and there is a lot I like about this book.

I think i definitely prefer it to Elantris.