/lit/ - Literature

I finally finished Oathbringer.
Should I just jump into Rhythm of War right away or go read other cosmere books first?
From what I heard, this might be like jumping into Avenger or something.

is Mistborn actually good?
a female protag is a bit of a turn-off but she is ok so far. I am not super invested though.

>>20621058
what are some books that are good but not that good?
I want to read the really good ones but I am also looking for something to listen to as an audiobook while working out, so I will listen to those that are 'good but not that good'.

The Wheel of Time is my 1# candidate for now.

>>17059606
>History
>Now my feeling is that this field might still have some life in it.
Guess again. From what I can tell it's got the same problems you noticed in classics departments. Old-school historical methodology is in the process of being replaced by critical theory and psychoanalysis. All the new stuff being written is either hyper-specific or way too broad, and the writers like to bring up concepts like collective memory that allow them to say whatever they want to without having to prove anything. There are still a bunch of grumpy old male holdouts, but they won't live forever and for now they're forced to earn their pay by teaching elective survey courses to students who either don't give a shit or expect the entire field to be like a Paradox game.
Schools are cutting funding for their history departments, there are fewer and fewer professorships available, and the public's trust in academia is (rightfully) so low that there's no point in getting into the field anymore. The best thing a historian or archivist can do right now is to work on digitization and other ways of making historical sources freely available to the public, so that a new generation of disinterested amateurs can take over when academia inevitably grinds to a halt.
At least that's how I see it from an outsider's perspective, I'm not a grad student or anything.