Who remembers discovering Sanderson's fantastic books?

[Lunu'anaki he/him]

I have always lurked in the shadows of Forums. Always reading, but never contributing.

 

     I am a new member, but have been visiting this site as a guest for about 2 years.

     What I find that is full of just as much adventure as reading the book is reading and pondering on the forum.  Especially when you discover that hidden connect between two seemingly different events or characters thanks to the extremely observant fans. Hats off to you all.

    The invention of the Forum is great as it allows all of us come together to discuss great books, because be honest, who can't wait to talk about a great book, or chapter the moment you finish it? Luckily my cousin and I almost always end up reading the same book. Usually at the same time. We are both WOT fans, and now Sanderson fans.

     It's funny. I remember how I learned about Brandon Sanderson. The announcement of "The Gathering Storm" came out. Brandon Sanderson was the author listed to finish the series. I remember specifically thinking who is that? That day I drove to the book store, looked him up, and bought "Mistborn". I read all three back to back. Hooked ever sense.

[Lopen Skybreaker he/him]

I found out about Brandon from Wot announcements as well. Basically the exact same way too. Even started on the same book.

Welcome to the forums.

[Fifth of Daybreak he/him]

I remember. I was in Medic School at the time, on my last semester. I was on the last 300 of 1000 hours of clinical work I was paying to do, and my program was less than stellar to put things mildly, so after a year of that, I was on my last legs. Thankfully the last semester was only ambulance time, and no classroom, and I found a great fire department that didn't care if I read books all day. So I read through Name of the Wind on a friends suggestion, then bought A Wise Man's Fear and finished that up as well. So I bought and reread the Redemption of Althalus, and then I was stumped. 

 

So 6:00 in the morning, I'm up, ready to leave, and moping about not having a book to write, and being bored of my kindle games. So I looked through the kindle bookstore, and front and center was Mistborn. I stopped, and just stared at the cover. I bought it, on a whim. Now at the time, I was pretty destitute, so every dollar counted. I was working two jobs immediately before that, but I had to cut down to working once every two weeks so I could do about 70 hours a week in ambulance ride time for 3 months. I didn't usually just whimsy away money like that, but, I could just tell.

 

The cover was just so striking, especially with the title. The mistcloak is really what sold me on it, but it was also like the book was trying to talk to me.

 

So I read it. No...I devoured it. And Well of Ascension, and Hero of Ages. I remember driving out to Mcdonald's to use the WiFi after I had cancelled my T.V. and internet, that way I could buy the other two. My mind exploded. In one trilogy, suddenly, Brandon Sanderson had jumped to the top of my favorite author list. Above Tolkien, above Rowling, above Orson Scott Card. Done. 

 

So I coasted out the rest of the semester reading his books, buying as many as I could, and getting the rest from the library. I had to pull myself away to study for my upcoming certification exam, but really, after the toughest year and a half in my life, being able to read for pleasure again, and then discovering Brandon Sanderson on my own, not a recommendation, but just listening to my intuition, I found an escape, a hideaway from the horror that was that particular program. 

 

That's how I found Brandon Sanderson. Like Hoid finds novel worthy plot lines, Mistborn found me right when I needed it. 

[IcarusAbides he/him]

Wow that's a lovely story about how you discovered Sanderson and his works, I wish mine was anywhere as meaningful to me but life would be boring anyway if we all did things the same way and at least we all did find Sanderson in the end.

The book covers certainly helped as I tend to mooch around 2 or 3 bookstores once or twice a week when I'm on my lunch break and something about the cover for Way Of Kings and The Final Empire just kept catching my eye whenever I was in there, after that it was the blurb for the first Mistborn book that seemed so intriguing that I thought why not and picked up

It doesn't take much for someone like Sanderson to hook you with his work and that first book well and truly hooked me and now a few years and many books later I'm truly and addict who is just extremely grateful to love such a prolific author