this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
42 points (100.0% liked)

Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

2801 readers
1 users here now

Anything related to the fantasy genre

Related communities

FAQ

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
42
What have you been reading this month? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This month I've been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I've also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP.

So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome. Elantris doesn't get enough love from Sanderson fans, I think because his other work is so strong where in Elantris he was still finding his voice as his first published work. But I read it after books 1-4 of the Stormlight books and while it was clearly an early work and in comparison it's not written as "well," a lot of the key things are there. Compelling story, good character work, and compared to most fiction, really well written. It's just when put next to his later works it feels a bit "less." But obviously, his strength is really his character work, and some of them were a bit flat, but that villain... man that really showed what he can do with a character. And of course his story ideas are always just so unique and awesome.

And I don't know how much of Sanderson's background you know but it was the first Mistborn book that got him Wheel of Time. His telling of that story is actually really touching to me as someone who loves books and how they can affect people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah it takes so much dedication and practice to become a successful writer, so it's really remarkable that he wrote such a great story as his first novel. It shows his unique mind. And the raw (if you can call it that) feeling of Elantris adds to the charm for me. Its like seeing the writer grow and evolve before your eyes.

Oh wow, I didn't know that! And so far I've enjoyed how he wrotw the WoT series. Keeping in touch with the overall feeling of the books, but still writing within himself and not trying to emulate Robert Jordan.