/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20824901]

I see a lot of people praising this guy, does he hold a candle to Tolkien?

[Anonymous No.20824906]

>>20824901
He doesn't and no one really praises him. He's the MCU of modern fantasy books.

[Anonymous No.20824913]

>>20824901
HE WILL NEVER RULE SUPREME

[Anonymous No.20824990]

I can appreciate his marketability, and he will have a giant influence on the next generation of fantasy writers, but he isn't a great writer in terms of quality. But nigga machine guns out books like d tier horror writers, and despite not being great, he isn't awful and has a large following.

He doesn't hold a candle to Tolkien, but he has a candle

[Anonymous No.20824996]

>>20824901
>does he hold a candle to Tolkien?
Fucking lmfao. He's the McDonald's of Fantasy. He actually brings a bad name to the genre but not as bad as Robert Jordan.

[Anonymous No.20826359]

>>20824901
No, but his Mistborn trilogy is solid fantasy. Steven Erikson, R. Scott Bakker and Brian Catling can, however, and they've wrote some of the best fantasy as of late.

[Anonymous No.20828124]

>>20824996
Why is Jordan worse? I only know Mistborn but it was so sparse I couldn't bring myself to finish it. It felt like I was reading a first draft.
Jordan, at the very least, builds intricate worlds and layers his work.
Rowling is to Harold Bloom what Sanderson is to me.

[Anonymous No.20828129]

any tolkeinists listen to this? is it good?

[Anonymous No.20828137]

>>20824901
He's inspirational bringing visibily to writers with down syndrome

[Anonymous No.20828203]

>>20828137
He is bringing visibily to writers with down syndrome!

[Anonymous No.20828211]

>>20824901
>>20828137

That guy looks like that a little smart yet a complete sshole kid from your local high school that either grew up to be an unemployed engineer or a discord moderator.

Or ya know, he looks like he will sing about how pyrites are allright, i guess

[Anonymous No.20828223]

>Trying to prove that popular fantasy books have literary value by using the establishment’s arguments is useless. Genre fiction does something different from literary fiction. Scholarly writing—whether it be a thick book about the lost tribes of Israel, or whether it be the new densely-prosed, New Yorker-style work of fiction—seeks primarily to engage the mind. In my opinion, that’s not what I’m doing as a writer. Yes, I like clever plots and interesting magic systems. Popular fiction, however, at its core is about emotion.
>Fiction like I write is not about teaching you something, or about making a ‘distiguished contribution to American Letters.’ It’s about writing something that makes my readers feel what it’s like to be someone else. It’s about dreaming, about imagination, and about making you—for a short time—be someone else and experience their world.
https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/why-is-fantasy-and-other-genre-fiction-looked-down-on-by-the-literary-world/

[Anonymous No.20828251]

>>20824901
He can produce an endless amount of material because it's all mediocre.

[Anonymous No.20828294]

>>20828137
TheReportOfTheWeek.

[Anonymous No.20828311]

>>20824901
I think he's pretty good at what he does, which is writing easy to digest, enjoyable fantasy stories with cool fights, but his stories are shallow and he spends far too much effort on his autistic "worldbuilding" and "magic systems" instead of on characters or prose. It feels very much like reading an asian webnovel. He is essentially the Michael Bay of books; obviously much lower quality than Tolkien, but sometimes you are just in the mood for brainless action.

[Anonymous No.20829333]

>>20828137
>Well done, well done Tolkien, however diversity...

[Anonymous No.20829374]

>>20828311
>magic systems
kek I kept hearing people talking on and on about this faggot's "magic systems" and I also saw an interview where he says how proud he is of his magic system. I didn't know what the hell that was so I looked it up and it's apparently some stupid shit about metals ("allomancy" lmao) and how each person can burn some metal and have powers like a superhero or some nonsense. Impressive that this shit gets praised as it's not even video game tier.

[Anonymous No.20830671]

no he doenst

[Anonymous No.20830716]

>>20824901
lmfao
Nice one, Sandercuck
Bakker rules

[Anonymous No.20830876]

sanderson describes action in a similar fashion to patrick bateman detailing his sexual exploits

[Anonymous No.20830888]

>>20828311
>He is essentially the Michael Bay of books;
pain & gain has more of a claim to artistic legitimacy than anything this retard ever wrote

[Anonymous No.20830894]

>>20828223
look at this complete retard thinking "real" literature isn't about emotion. i bet his audience buys this bullshit, too, because they've never read a book that wasn't ya or bottom of the barrel fantasy.

[Anonymous No.20830922]

>>20829374
The "le magic system" meme got me interested in his writing. Every booktuber talks about how great he is at writing magic systems. But he's just a bad writer - the prose is awful. I wish people would stop hyping up YA authors.

[Anonymous No.20830947]

>>20830922
He unironically gets mogged by light novel authors like Nisioisin