SirZelig Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) I was a Sanderson fan, who found WoT. All because I heard he was finishing it. Usually I hear it the other way around. Now some of us are curoius to see the odds. Edited August 27, 2011 by SirZelig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syborae Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 RJ! Though I'm a much bigger fan of Brandon. I would read anything Brandon has written and the same isn't true of Jordan (that's with an a btw >.>) BUT I have to say it was surreal-ly awesome to visit his house and sit in his chair! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 RJ! Though I'm a much bigger fan of Brandon. I would read anything Brandon has written and the same isn't true of Jordan (that's with an a btw >.>) THIS! though I've not read any WoT in a while, so I might revise this after I do reread/finish it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syborae Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 The books with Brandon co-writing are the best of the series imo but I just like his style better so that may be why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaladin Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Been a big Jordan since '94-95ish. Heard about Brandon when he was picked to finish WoT, and have come to really like his stuff, even though his writing style is quite a bit different than Jordan's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRioter Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 I found out about Brandon when he was picked to finish WoT, but I'm now much fonder of Brandon's style then Jordan's but yeah, I was a WoT fan first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskeyjack Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'd assume this would skew heavily toward RJ, considering he's been writing a lot longer. Well, had been, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aashyma Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 BranSan fan first. Warbreaker was recommended to me and I liked it enough to finish Mistborn Elantris and TWoK in two weeks Haven't read WoT yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KChan Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Wow, with my vote, it's dead even. I was an RJ fan first. Wheel of Time was recommended to me by a classmate my sophomore year of high school, after I had told him how much I prefer fantasy - long fantasy - to any other book. I read from Eye of the World to either Winter's Heart of Crossroads of Twilight straight through in a single summer, having spent most of my time doing little else (except attending band camp). When I heard that Brandon was finishing the series, I went to his website, read his sample chapters, then promptly went out and bought Elantris and Mistborn 1. And, well, I think we all know well enough that that was all it took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralis00 Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 ...and my vote puts Jordan in the lead. I read WoT first, but I became a Sanderson fan while Jordan was still alive (and before he wrote Knife of Dreams). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 I adjusted the name of the poll and the question to say "Jordan" instead of "Jorden". I hope you don't mind, SirZelig. Interesting how close the margins are here. There's probably some serious selection bias, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batchman Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Put me down as another that learned about Brandon because he was asked to finish WoT. Doesn't change the fact that I read -all- of Brandon's other published books (and one unpublished) between learning of his taking over WoT and the release of Gathering Storm. He's become a real favorite of mine. But I started reading Jordan at least a decade before Brandon's first book was ever published. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHyde Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm not sure how to place my vote. I read WoT many years ago (after CoT was published but before New Spring) but sort of gave up on it. Then I was introduced to Brandon's books, and I started WoT again because I wanted to see what he did with the series. So I guess I'd say I was a RJ fan first, but I didn't read Brandon's books because of RJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 It's kind of funny. The first one I heard of was WoT, a friend-of-a-friend recommended it to me but I never picked it up, but a few months later a friend of mine recommended Mistborn. That time I DID pick it up and LOVED it. I didn't make the connection of the guy that friend-of-a-friend mentioned would be finishing WoT and Brandon until later. But yeah, Brandon first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirZelig Posted August 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 Thanks Chaos. I fix the poll vote as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Smith Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 I've decided to tackle WoT after coming to Brandon First. I had of course heard of RJ's epic series and the first I had ever heard of Brandon was when he was selected to finish the series. But after all of the books are released in WoT I'll probably start churning through them at an easy pace, probably getting them from the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Brooks Posted August 30, 2011 Report Share Posted August 30, 2011 Robert Jordan first but, that said, when I read The Gathering Storm I was so pleased with Sanderson's writing that I then read a bunch of his other books. Put it this way: I read what Brandon has written and pay attention to what he's writing. If Jordan has other books besides the WoT, I'm not interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirZelig Posted August 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2011 I honestly didnt think this would be this close of a race. It is nice to see that is seem to be an even match so far. Also, I think Jordan did some Conan books, but not for certain about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 Like so many others I heard about Brandon after reading that he was finishing WoT. I'm now halfway through the Mistborn series and quite enjoying it (but then, anything written by a fellow Sanderson *has* to be good ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 I honestly didnt think this would be this close of a race. It is nice to see that is seem to be an even match so far. Also, I think Jordan did some Conan books, but not for certain about that. Remember though, this is on Brandon's forums, so things will no doubt be strongly skewed in his favor (even if he's still behind). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCullough Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 I was a Jordan fan first, but only because I started reading WoT in 1990. I am a bigger fan of Sanderson than I ever was of Jordan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterGhandalf Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 Jordan; I first heard of Sanderson when he was announced to be completing Wheel of Time; I wanted to get an idea of what he could do, so I picked up Mistborn when I saw it at Barnes and Noble a short time later. Needless to say, I was hooked . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemuri Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 Brandon fan first, picked up Elantris when it first came out and read everything he's put out since. Started reading WoT because he was going to finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyabi Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 I've neve been able to make it through more than half of Eye of the World, so I never really became an RJ fan. I found out about Brandon when he did a signing for Elantris at a local bookstore and have been a fan since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thucydides Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Jordan first. If you cut Jordan's less than clean stuff I would like them evenly. The books with Brandon co-writing are the best of the series imo but I just like his style better so that may be why! I respectfully, and forcefully disagree! Brandon has done a fantastic job taking on the near impossible task of finishing The Wheel of Time, but Robert Jordan was infinitely better, after all it was his world. Nobody can match Jordan in his own world with his own characters, that's not to say he was a better writer than Brandon, just that he was better at writing The Wheel of Time, after all it is his creation. I have greatly enjoyed both The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight, but I will always mourn the fact that Jordan did not have the opportunity to write them himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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