Aliroz-The-Confused

I mean, I'm not really sure that the post-2009 books are intended for me and people like me, to be honest.  I think they are, but there's a good chance that they're not.  I mean, if they people with whom I disagree relate to and connect to the words on the page, then either my relating and connecting to them was accidental and wrong, or the relating and connecting to them by those who disagree with me is accidental and wrong.

Possibly the difference is that many listen to the books rather than read them, and this experience prioritizes dialogue over narration (since characters are given different voices, but no such coloring is used for non-character things).  It also makes them more or less incapable of parsing the chapter epigraphs (since the hearing experience is entirely linear and the reading experience is not), which are, word for word, among the most essential bits to the work.

A hearing-first experiencer of the books cannot parse that one bit (you know the one if you'd read it) on the first go-through of Oathbreaker.  A page-first reader experiences it as the twenty-one most memorable sentences in the book.