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Y_Brennan t1_j1lak9b wrote

Reply to comment by kuahara in What are your thoughts on pacing in new vs older books? by Potential_Crisis

I only started reading Elantris which was a rare dnf for me. Terrible writing and bland uninteresting characters is what broke me. He is my brother's favourite author so he is probably good but Elantris was just really really bad

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azariah19 t1_j1mo8eo wrote

Yeah. I feel a similar way with you about Elantris. I say give the first bit of The Way of Kings a try. Elantris was his first published novel... And it shows. But he does gain quite a bit of experience and his writing vastly improves.

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kuahara t1_j1lb3lq wrote

I am half way through Elantris now and enjoying it.

The Way of Kings is fantastic.

The first Mistborn trilogy is also really good.

I have not finished Stormlight Archive yet. I loved WoK so much that I wanted to go back and read everything he wrote up to that point before continuing.

Maybe start with Mistborn, Final Empire. Plenty of great character development there and a very well thought out, very good story.

Remember that Elantris is his first book ever published. Even so, Orson Scott Card gave it quite the endorsement.

His other work are praised by Michael Moorcock, Patrick Rothfuss, and other accomplished writers.

I would not give up on Sanderson. You'll really be missing out.

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Y_Brennan t1_j1lbbel wrote

I saw that praise from Card and he is a crazy old man who hasn't written a good book in about 20 years. I'm not giving up yet but I also don't have the time to read Brandon Sanderson it's a little too much. I do like Moorcock but I figured it odd he would praise Sanderson, in my experience Moorcock hates world building and world builders just look at what he thinks about Tolkien. Which is why I disregard his opinions on other authors, while I like his work I don't agree with his criticism.

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