/lit/ - Literature

Can't speak for the other books yet, but I enjoyed this. Sure it's a little slow, but the setting is very interesting and the characters are well-developed.

I stopped reading fantasy around when the Potter books became popular and with it all the YA garbage.

After all these years I heard a lot of good things about adult fantasy in recent times, so I decided to check it out.

Looking online Sanderson was mentioned quite a lot. After reading the first book of his Stormlight Archive series , I have to say, it is embarrassingly badly.

The man has no sense of prose,pacing or when exposition is appropriate. And the entire thing was written like a pitch for a Marvel movie rather than an actual book.

Second writer I read was Abercrombie ,and it was better than I expected, leaving me with some hope for the genre

So /lit/ what are your recommendations since everything online seems to favour what I imagine to be Redditor's and your typical man child Consoomers?

What do I think of Brandon Sanderson's work?

>>11870500
But i love long books!

Is there any great Mormon literature?

Can we have a fantasy thread?

>>11631963
This book is basically 12 months a slave mixed with magical pippy longstocking

Discuss

I'm sorry I doubted you. I should have listened when you said Sandershit was awful.

I just got this book and I gave it a chance, since it has such overwhelmingly positive reviews. Made it to about page 100 and I'm officially dropping it.
The book fails on nearly every level.
>The characters are boring and one dimensional (token hero who is mysterious and somehow good at everything, token Mary Sue female character who has big dreams and an even bigger heart)
>The Matrix style attacking and running on the ceiling is cheesy as fuck
>The world isn't that unique or interesting (dude, like, there's really violent storms and shit) (dude, like, light is really powerful)
>The lore means nothing to me and I'm sure it will all be explained eventually but if you can't at least give me some bread crumbs to keep my interest as incentive to keep reading, then I'm not wasting my time

The great reviews of this baffle me. It's like we're reading two different books.
And I'm sure there are people who say "Stick with it, it gets good around page 700."
Fuck that. If you can't convince me a book is worth reading by page 100, you failed as a writer.

Someone recommended this series to me and I read the first two books in a month. I’m really enjoying the series.

Any other good fantasy you guys can recommend?

This is depressing

Worth reading, /sffg/?

looks intresting, wish more people would read Stormlight Archive.

got you senpai

>>9671930
>Not buying the superior Hardback version