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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9849648" data-attributes="member: 6780330">LOL, don't have the time these days to go that deep, but thanks! Sanderson does not have the strongest writing on that front, voice wise, I would agree, though I think he does a good job drawing out different characters personalities and motivations. When he gets to write Wheel of Time, he nails Rand and Perrin, but boy is his Mat rough... Jordan gets a lot more diverse in viewpoints starting in book 4 and 5, as the Two Rivers kdks become somewhat de-centered as the viewpoints. Yeah, his world building approach is somewhat shallow and improvisational: he builds on what he does, but he starts with some basic facts and then builds on those pretty much as the plot demands rather than beforehand. It works, but it is not on the level of Frank Herbert or J. R. R. Tolkien for sure. And he often puts abstract ideas, like "The Way of Kings is The Mighty Ducks" as centralThe internal monologues don't really bother me, since that is pretty much how I think myself. For sure, and I know because Sanderson has been talking about his adaptation philosophy that he wants any film project to be a film or TV show first, and use that art form rather than try to be lavish to literary details. He wants a lot of control, but he has a healthy detachment from specific details that this may just work.</blockquote>