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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9588733" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's definitely not you.</p><p></p><p>Sanderson has a lot of flaws, and he's quite honest about some of them, including his weakness in writing convincing romantic or sexual relationships between characters (never better exemplified than by the utterly insane "sitting on his lap" scenes in the second Mistborn book, which is so demented, unnatural and out-of-nowhere it's basically a specialist fetish for people with specific religious upbringings - I won't go into further details). He's also admitted that he sometimes can't bring himself to write characters naturally how they'd actually behave but instead imposes his authorial morals on them and he even saw how that weakened the books.</p><p></p><p>Its really his fans (who can be a little extreme, because it's a lore-obsessive-based fandom, though that is less toxic than a shipping-obsessive-based one) who continually defend even the obviously weakest elements of his work, to the point of contradicting Sanderson's own accurate self-criticisms (which is genuinely the rarely-seen "toxic positivity").</p><p></p><p>Stormlight Archive particularly, because it's so gigantic, so full of implausible and Deus-Ex-y/hand-of-the-author character behaviour (with one notable exception, which immediately started on retcon'ing the next book!), and has large chunks of totally unnecessary and pacing-destroying Cosmere-reference stuff in it, has defeated almost my friends who used to be Sanderson fans. One of my best friends read literally every Mistborn book and some of Sanderson's other stuff, but he still couldn't chug through book 4 of Stormlight. I fell out in book 3 myself. Even my friend who always slams through the most turgid and awful fantasy novels (he got through nearly half of Sword of Truth for god's sake - insane) still hasn't started on book 4, though he hasn't "officially" quit the series.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9588733, member: 18"] It's definitely not you. Sanderson has a lot of flaws, and he's quite honest about some of them, including his weakness in writing convincing romantic or sexual relationships between characters (never better exemplified than by the utterly insane "sitting on his lap" scenes in the second Mistborn book, which is so demented, unnatural and out-of-nowhere it's basically a specialist fetish for people with specific religious upbringings - I won't go into further details). He's also admitted that he sometimes can't bring himself to write characters naturally how they'd actually behave but instead imposes his authorial morals on them and he even saw how that weakened the books. Its really his fans (who can be a little extreme, because it's a lore-obsessive-based fandom, though that is less toxic than a shipping-obsessive-based one) who continually defend even the obviously weakest elements of his work, to the point of contradicting Sanderson's own accurate self-criticisms (which is genuinely the rarely-seen "toxic positivity"). Stormlight Archive particularly, because it's so gigantic, so full of implausible and Deus-Ex-y/hand-of-the-author character behaviour (with one notable exception, which immediately started on retcon'ing the next book!), and has large chunks of totally unnecessary and pacing-destroying Cosmere-reference stuff in it, has defeated almost my friends who used to be Sanderson fans. One of my best friends read literally every Mistborn book and some of Sanderson's other stuff, but he still couldn't chug through book 4 of Stormlight. I fell out in book 3 myself. Even my friend who always slams through the most turgid and awful fantasy novels (he got through nearly half of Sword of Truth for god's sake - insane) still hasn't started on book 4, though he hasn't "officially" quit the series. [/QUOTE]
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