darksteel

I had recently got back into reading, having read a few Magic: the Gathering novels. I must say, they were largely unimpressive, as there are only a couple that are worth reading, a handful that are mediocre, and a large portion of awful books. I can't tell you why I continued reading at this point, because the series I had been reading, the first book and its prequel are two of the best books I've ever read, but the last three are three of the worst books I've ever read, and the ending was so largely disappointing on so many levels. I think I wanted to find something that wasn't awful, cause I figured that better books had to exist. Anyways, I went looking for recommendations and though Sanderson was given a few times, I ended up going for Pratchett initially. I was about to go on a vacation where I'd have tons of reading time, so I went to buy some books and they had a sale. I was going to pick up Bioshock: Rapture, which just came out, and three Pratchett books. Sadly (or possibly a blessing in disguise), they didn't have one of the books I wanted, so I ended up browsing around and coming to Mistborn, which remembering the recommendations, I decided to grab. When I read it, I fell in love instantly. The book was amazing, it was everything I wanted in a fantasy book. So far, all the fantasy I'd read had this notion of magic being wizards flinging crazy spells with little notion of how or why and the concept of resource was completely unfamiliar in books, though I've played plenty of RPG games with MP. His notion of having a cost to use magic was something I became fond of very quickly, and I enjoyed the first Mistborn more than any book I had ever read (though now, Name of the Wind brings serious competition). I came home, bought the rest of the trilogy, loved it (though less so than the first book). Bought The Way of Kings some time later as well as Alloy of Law. I generally credit him as being the author that got me into reading. After reading the Mistborn trilogy, it more or less snowballed from there, and now I've got a bunch of books on my shelf waiting to be read.

Just heard about this site, and I'm a pretty big Sanderson fan, so here I am. I've read Elantris, Mistborn, Alloy of Law and The Way of Kings with Warbreaker on my shelf. Thought I'd come here and get introduced to all this cosmere stuff properly and make sure that I have the pleasure of involving myself in all the discussion. Hope to enjoy my stay!