Has anyone read thoroughly DragonSteel and WayOfKings both as Prime-versions as well as the normal canonical versions?
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Spoiler WayOfKings Prime seems to be better than DragonSteel Prime.
I found DragonSteel Prime kind of not a very good or even cohesive storyline compared to the WayOfKings Prime.
WayOfKings-Prime reads almost like if someone tried to "Hollywood"-ify BrandoSando's WoK without really reading anything about Cosmere.
But DragonSteel-Prime reads like some crazy drunk person tried to combine Pug/Magician and BelGarion/Belgariad(David Eddings ) and some more fantasy settings.
I want more of these stories, the first drafts and the final editions ! It is very very fascinating how each story got revised, cut, re-written, re-arranged, etc.
I’ve got them loaded up on my reader and ready to go for my holiday next week - dropping a comment so I can try and remember to post my impressions!
I just finished Dragonsteel Prime. I read Way of Kings Prime when it was released (so: not recently). Dragonsteel (canon) hasn’t been written yet, so I’m not sure what you want to compare DP to?
Brandon has commented that Dragonsteel (Prime) never got published because the story didn’t really work. Some elements of it eventually turned up in Stormlight, of course.
I enjoyed both Prime books as a look at early versions of characters, settings, and magics. Reading WoKP after several Stormlight books, it was a little jarring to have a character die in Prime who is very much alive (as of SA4). DP didn’t do that to me; and as much as Brandon says there’s an early version of Shallan in that book, it felt like a wholly different character. I quite enjoyed getting to know Frost a little bit, and seeing early Hoid.
Just wanted to hear about thoughts on story, magic-system, etc differences between Dragonsteel Prime and Way of Kings Prime. :-D
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I liked the stone/mineral magic system in WoKP. And the fain magic vs human magic in DPP.