Elander Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 Soooo, what do yo read when you have finished all of it? it's so long till the new SA comes out... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 Mostly, I just waste time on the forums. If you want to read books Brandon likes, you should check out his Goodreads recommendations. I like his books because of their strong reread value, if you're trying to pick up clues for foreshadowing or realmatics. So, I'd say read through them all again, trying to find the connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 Simple... join the pre-Oathbringer re-read and read it all again! https://thecognitiverealm.com/ More seriously though... Brent Weeks, Patrick Rothfuss are other great to read as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 I'll reread books in preparation for a new release when I want to have all the details fresh in my memory, which kills some time while scratching the Sanderson Itch and you never know what new things you'll spot on a reread. And speaking of which, we're within days of getting the State of the Sanderson update which might have some new tidbits on future plans. And yeah, checking out authors Brandon recommends can be very rewarding. For a personal example, I started reading Jim Butcher after a signing where someone asked Brandon what he was reading and he mentioned the just-released Aeronaut's Windlass as one book. I figured anyone Brandon liked was worth a look and I wasn't disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) Dresden Files, Clive Barkers Books of Blood, Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe and Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti, Perdido Street Station, House of Leaves... ... This guy, who is seriously one of my favorite writers. This thing, which will keep you entertained for months. Edited December 14, 2016 by Zathoth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soyperson Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 The Kingkiller Chronicle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedal Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 23 minutes ago, Zathoth said: Dresden Files, Clive Barkers Books of Blood, Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe and Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti, Perdido Street Station, House of Leaves... ... This guy, who is seriously one of my favorite writers. ...was that supposed to be what it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted December 14, 2016 Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 Just now, Jedal said: ...was that supposed to be what it was? Slimebeast? Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald101 Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 You could also try Dan Wells, whose been in a writing group with Brandon since before either of them were published. He's probably better for post-apocalyptic books like the partial's sequence then swords-and-horses fantasy (to use Jim Butcher's terminology), or for I am Not a Serial Killer. If you've read AU Dan Wells wrote the foreword, and you can almost always find Dan in Brandon's acknowledgements and vice versa. I'm reading the Partials sequence right now and it's really engaging, with character's you can really start to care about and a memorable plot, though full disclosure: I'm only ~1/2 of the way through the second book so I haven't read the ending yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Whatever I want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exalted Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Rereads! Just got done with a Mistborn trilogy reread, in the middle of an LotR one as well. But those aside, I've heard Jim Butcher is really good, and I have the first Codex Alera book awaiting me on my counter right now. So there's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJester Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 On 12/14/2016 at 5:38 PM, bleeder said: The Kingkiller Chronicle. Nooooo!! Do not read the king killer chronicles!!! It will hook you just like Sanderson books do. Unlike Sanderson though who loves his readers and works very hard to give us new material at a rate that has led to many wild yet otherwise inexplicable theories as to how he does it; rothfus has been sitting on his third book for years now and has no fan love. You'll find yourself in the same situation... Two absolutely amazing books, and no conclusion anywhere in site, and many, many sleepless nights wandering just how it ends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 8 minutes ago, DarkJester said: Nooooo!! Do not read the king killer chronicles!!! It will hook you just like Sanderson books do. Unlike Sanderson though who loves his readers and works very hard to give us new material at a rate that has led to many wild yet otherwise inexplicable theories as to how he does it; rothfus has been sitting on his third book for years now and has no fan love. You'll find yourself in the same situation... Two absolutely amazing books, and no conclusion anywhere in site, and many, many sleepless nights wandering just how it ends... That is completely not fair to Rothfuss. He loves his fans as much as Brandon, but they have different approaches to writing. Sanderson is more of the anomaly than Rothfuss in the way he approaches writing. and we have been spoiled by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJester Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 Ok. I'm sure he does, and he's an amazing writer. He's the only other author out there that has managed to pull me in the way Brandon has. I'm just sooooooooo tired of waiting for his third installment. If we even had a glimps of the light at the end of the tunnel, I'd be happy. Wouldn't care if he said it'll be out in five years... I just hate being stuck in limbo and not knowing when (or at this point even if) he's going to finish. Sopposedly he has already wrote it... If so, why not release it? No idea if that's true... Personally, I think he made some serious promises in the first two books, and he's just bit off more than he can chew... The first two are definitely 2 of my absolute favorite books, but this delay has really made me doubt him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erunion Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 @DarkJester Rothfuss' writing pace is fairly normal, especially considering how beautiful his prose is. Sanderson's writing pace is anomalous; he produces content at an incredibly fast pace. Which spoils us. Rothfuss produces work at a slightly slower than average pace. However, this is unsurprising as Rothfuss' prose is beautiful and incredibly poetic. He spends a ton of time working on making the prose and poetry just right and it pays off. Sanderson, on the other hand, has good but unexceptional prose; he instead writes brilliant stories and worlds, but doesn't worry about making the prose itself beautiful. This, in addition to his insane work ethic, make him a far more prolific author than Rothfuss. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 I read an interview in August with Rothfuss that talked about him spending basically 30 min per WORD when he was writing the Prologue and Epilogue to Name of the Wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ram433 Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 I'm conflicted about Rothfuss. I don't want to be an entitled fan, but every time I see another post on fb about a new kickstarter or some other side project it gets harder and harder not to think he's milking our anticipation a bit. To be entirely fair, a good portion of that "milk" goes to feed starving families through Hefer International so its tough to condemn him for it too much. Plus I get how someone who has written what is arguably 2/3 of the best single story of our generation is worried about blowing the ending. Procrastination in that situation is understandable. Still, as time goes on it gets more difficult to give him the benefit of the doubt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJester Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 Look. I give Rothfuss a hard time, but he in all honesty is the only other writer I love as much as Brandon. They are both incredible in their own ways. I've been giving him a hard time about how long this last book is taking, but in all honesty, I do want him to get it right. I absolutely loved the Eragon series, but the last book just killed it for me... The first half of the last book was going great, and it was like Paolini just said screw it, let's wrap this up and he just rushed the ending to say he was done... Very disappointing... Like I said, When it comes to Rothfuss, I just wish we could see that there was some progress being made. (30 minutes for one word?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 How about Brian McClellan? The Powder Mage trilogy? I just started the first book and Almighty above, I am hooked. And it's very much like Sanderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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