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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9533199" data-attributes="member: 18">He's a lot of people's kind of guy! For exactly those kinds of reasons!A lot of fantasy novels have troubled characters, challenging morality you need to think about, ideas about life and the human condition and so on, and Sanderson largely just dismisses all of that. The few times we have his characters have a genuine moral quandary, they always pick the easy "good guy" option, even where it flies against everything in their personality and experiences so far, the authorial hand-of-god reaches down (sometimes almost literally!) and redirects them, or in the literally two other cases I can think of, they are briefly stressed out for doing the "wrong" thing morally and then fate conspires to make it actually be the "right" thing.Also they are so focused on world-building and magic systems, which are essentially meaningless lore, but some people really love learning tons of meaningless lore. Sanderson has also gradually added cross-book/cross-universe lore, which I personally find repulsive and caused me to stop reading his books, but a lot of people love.There's also, like, basically no sex and little sexual desire, which again, I think for a certain kind of median reader is absolutely an asset.(As an aside, to be clear I don't dislike Sanderson personally, I respect how honest he's been about some of his failings (c.f. hand-of-god redirects, overly chaste characters, etc.), and I think a lot of the problems come down the rather astonishing fact that he is IRL, for real, incapable of feeling either physical or emotional pain. On the flip side I think that the lack of that makes his books vastly less challenging than other works, like, say, those of Joe Abercrombie, who writes about and understands pain in a pretty deep and sharp way.)</blockquote>

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