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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9849616" data-attributes="member: 7033171">you already show hints of that in the book megathread 2025 and if you'd decide to do that, I sign up as a feedback reader haha!Interestingly one of my main critiques of his prose is that his voice of character feel not unique, most of his characters talk the same. Although I wouldn't say the same about GRRM. Jordan is on the brink for me up until now (in the middle of vol 3).I think its not the clarity that annoys me. I definitely can appreciate straightforward prose. But Jordan is also quite straight forward, at least in the first books. Somehow it works better for me - Sanderson just repeats too much words and phrases for my taste and has no feel for pacing and rythm. It feels quite dry and soulless to me. There is no vivid imagery pop up in my mind when reading Sanderson. And Jordan for example is quite good in immersing me in the world with simple means, meanwhile I have the opposite effect with Sanderson: I feel distanced, having no good grasp about the world, everything feels artificial. His approach works really good with action scenes - if a scene has a complex setup and sequence of action beats, you don't want complex prose or distracting choice of words or too much metaphors etc. But outside of action scenes his scenes fall flat to me. But my biggest gripe with Sanderson: the internal monologues of his characters are driving me insane. I swear to god, all the middle parts of his books are stretched to hell with internal meanderings "why did X happen? How does X work? What could be behind X? Why is it X? Why why why why why why why why why...." without ever actually doing something and than in the finale the big reveal is "omg it was actually Y!!" I like character-driven stories in general where we experience the internal state of mind of the protagonists - but Sanderson is not good at it. He is plot-driven through and through, but dresses it up with these horrid thought spirals that lead to nowhere. Ands that a big reason I am excited for the TV adaptions: no matter the freedom apple gives him, there is no way a good TV producer would allow for some voiceover narrator doing endless repetitions of character internal monologues.</blockquote>

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