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I hear frequent bitching about Tolkein's complexity or over-attention to detail, then I revisit something like The Stormlight Archive and wonder how millions of people are actually out there drooling over Brandon Sanderson's work, which (at least in that series) feels like the creative and visual equivalent of a mostly empty dust pan lying about in a vacant dirt lot somewhere on an undeveloped piece of land in the middle of Idaho, with a single tiny glass bead illuminated inside of it. It's so fucking bland that getting through those books felt like I was waiting at the DMV with several strangers I didn't like or care about.
Edit: To be fair, Dalinar was likable.
I just read the first Stormlight book and thought it was a great read, definitely more of a beach read fantasy especially compared to Tolkien but a well put together story at the very least. I see where you're coming from though.
Do you have suggestions for other fantasy that you feel compares to Tolkien and doesn't remind you of a dirty rural parking lot?
I'm going through Wheel of Time now and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's not as elegant as Tolkein, but it definitely leans more towards that style than Sanderson does.
I haven’t started Wheel of Time yet but The Kingkiller Chronicles had some prose that I could just not put down.
It gets a little eye-rolly in the second book for me (IYKYK) but I think Rothfuss deserves a place in this convo for sure. My opinion.
Absolutely loved those books but can’t recommend reading them until book 3 comes out, lest others be stuck with us in this same eternal purgatory.