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Originally Posted by keg in kc
We'll be lucky if he finishes stormlight archive in the next 15 years.
Those books to me mark the best work he's done so far, and I think they're the only thing worth a re-read. I couldn't even make it through the last wheel of time book. The mistborn stuff is okay but he spends too much time with the magic systems and his early fight sequences come across more like tabletop DnD than visceral fight scenes. His character work is also much stronger in the Stormlight books.
I'm a big fan of the writing excuses podcast he does with dan wells, howard taylor and mary robinette kowal. Although they still haven't motived me to actually write after all these years. But that's my failure more than theirs of course.
Along the lines of Sanderson's lighter fare, Jim Butcher's Codex Alera is pretty entertaining. I don't remember the exact story, but he basically wrote the series based on Pokemon and Roman Legions (it was a bet or something along those lines, somebody else set the parameters). Funny way to start, but a good series.
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I love Sanderson. His The Way of Kings books (2 so far) are some of the best fantasy work I have ever had the chance to read. I'm going to have to disagree with you on the Mistborn books though. His three magic systems (metallurgy, hemallurgy, and ferrachemistry) in Mistborn are some of the most unique and well thought out magic systems I have come across. Keslier's fight against the Steel Inquisitor was jawdropping. There are some many things that magic system can do with compounding, etc.