Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Book • Page 66

not a good enough reason to use the word girth

 

I'm honestly quite annoyed at life at the moment and how that relates to Wind and Truth. I spent months bingeing my way through the first 4, and I'm finally on the last book (I think almost day 3) and
1) I'm a little bit burned out by the sheet volume / girth of them
2) and life is so incredibly busy with all sorts of things going on that I can barely focus on reading and I've read it sporadically and in small sections and my enjoyment isn't what I expected to get for the final book of the arc. I just spent like 15 hours on planes the past week and all I wanted to do was sleep or other more serious things.

Part of me says take a short break and then get back into the headspace, but I put so much work into reading the first 4 back to back to back that that feels pointless but I'm also not enjoying it as I feel like I should... and also... spoilers :( - which I have done great to avoid so far and I don't know any real life readers who will spoil.

Either way, bummed with how anticlimactic my enjoyment of finally getting to it is, but it really is just outside circumstance's draining my time and energy and affecting my focus.

 

It's okay to step back from things that don't bring you joy. Especially in difficult times. Do what you need to to get in the right headspace and come back when you can enjoy it is what I'd say.

 

If i ever reread Wind and Truth, ill probably read Day 1, read all of the Kaladin and Szeth Chapters, read day 9 and 10.

 

Does Kate Reading sound different to anyone else? She sounds a lot more... gravelly, like maybe she was reading while sick or something. Really taking me out of the early Shallan chapters.

 

You're not the only one who mentioned this.

 

I'm unsubbed from most of the Cosmere-adjacent subreddits so as to not read any spoilers so I'm not seeing any of that type of info, haha.

 

It was pretty much the only negative thing I saw on GoodReads about the book for the first month or so once I started glancing at reviews after I finished.

 

it's different for sure (100% noticed right away) but I'm not seeing it as a negative. I had to get used to / deal with all the pronunciation changes throughout the wheel of time series though, and a lot of those audio books sound different as they're older recordings so it really takes a lot for me to poo poo on a narrator though.

 

It was a big shock when I went from Rhythm of War to The Eye of the World, obviously due to time/recording methods. I wonder if hearing Kate on those first 5-6 WoT time books since I heard her in TSA plays a big part in how she sounds to me now too.

 

It's different from ROW for sure, I think I'm just used to pronunciations and tone of voice and quality changing with these 2 narrators in particular.

I have also just listened to straight up bad narrators that I eventually got used to (the whole Realm of the eldering series) so I tend to adjust pretty quickly (I sort of have to if I want to consume books, just not enough time to read exclusively).

I am going to try to get more audiobook in for WAT and keep plowing through it. I know this book will click at some point and then I'll be all in. Ultimately I wish I had read ROW when it first came out vs rereading 3 and trying to absorb 2 new ones all back to back. Just a lot of Sanderson.

 

Trying to get through WoT made me appreciate Sanderson, that's for sure. Sorry to my WoT people out there. I'll pick it back up after this, but there's a lot more things that annoy me in that series than TSA.

 

Weird way to read the book that would tell you like hardly any of the story? Especially since that storyline is the one with the most complaints from what I can tell. If you do do it let me know how it goes.

 

The slog of RoW was harder for me to get through than the entire perceived slog of WoT
::ducks::

 

Wheel of time would have been a great 8 book series.

 

And that’s why it’s a fantastic fourteen book series

 

Eh

 

Not to devolve the thread, but through 5 WoT books there wasn’t a single final act anywhere close to as good as the ones in stormlight.

 

I mean, WoT has like, two or three of the best written moments in the history of fantasy books.

But yeah, I don’t mean to derail this thread any further. Been meaning to unsubscribe from this one since I no longer enjoy Sanderson’s work.

 

The funny thing about Rhythm of War is that it is the “worst” Stormlight book. It also simultaneously contains the singular best chapter Brandon has ever written.

 

All this talk of RoW being bad is crazy to me. I loved the dynamic between Navani and Raboniel and all the science stuff though since seems to be a major objection. It's going to be incredibly important moving forward and for that reason merits its inclusion.

 

Yeah I liked Rhythm of War quite a bit. The science stuff was all really interesting to me, and I'm not someone who spends an awful lot of time in cosmere theorycraft or anything. I just thought it was a really interesting portrayal of that situation and also had larger ramifications for the series as a whole.

ROW wasn't my favorite of the five so far though. If I ranked them, I'd probably go WOR > TWOK = WAT > OB > ROW.

But we all know the best cosmere books are Well of Ascension and Sixth of the Dusk.

 

Which one?