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Brandon Sanderson / Gathering Storm - Sanderson should give himself some more credit!
« on: November 09, 2009, 05:30:36 PM »
A quote from his blog: "None of you ran out to get the book because of me." WRONG! I had almost given up hope reading WoT books after the last several that were so mediocre. I told myself after the last one "I will NOT buy another one of these books until reviews are written that say it's worth buying."
I thought Gathering Storm was excellent. I haven't read the first few WoT books in a while, but from my hazy memory of them I would say this is up there with the best in the series, which is around #3-6 if I remember correctly. Maybe this book would have been just as good if Jordan wrote it himself, but I have a strong suspicion it wouldn't have been based on the declining quality of the series.
I don't mean to disrespect Jordan, because it was pretty awesome of him to leave a ton of notes so that the series could be finished, but I think maybe part of him was happy to hand it off to someone who still had passion for these characters, and the skill to pull it off. Or maybe he was totally clueless about what his fans thought, I don't know.
What I DO know is that Brandon is trying to stay humble and give credit to Jordan, but I can't help but feeling I wouldn't think so highly of this book if it had been solely Jordan's work. I suspect there would have been 1/2 the story progression, quite a bit more hair-pulling, gossiping, and random nonsense rather than the massive plot advancement we got. And so I want to say thank you to Mr. Sanderson, because no matter what he will say publicly, the success of this book is in large part to his ability and hard work as a writer.
I thought Gathering Storm was excellent. I haven't read the first few WoT books in a while, but from my hazy memory of them I would say this is up there with the best in the series, which is around #3-6 if I remember correctly. Maybe this book would have been just as good if Jordan wrote it himself, but I have a strong suspicion it wouldn't have been based on the declining quality of the series.
I don't mean to disrespect Jordan, because it was pretty awesome of him to leave a ton of notes so that the series could be finished, but I think maybe part of him was happy to hand it off to someone who still had passion for these characters, and the skill to pull it off. Or maybe he was totally clueless about what his fans thought, I don't know.
What I DO know is that Brandon is trying to stay humble and give credit to Jordan, but I can't help but feeling I wouldn't think so highly of this book if it had been solely Jordan's work. I suspect there would have been 1/2 the story progression, quite a bit more hair-pulling, gossiping, and random nonsense rather than the massive plot advancement we got. And so I want to say thank you to Mr. Sanderson, because no matter what he will say publicly, the success of this book is in large part to his ability and hard work as a writer.