After his record setting kickstarter, I read The Final Empire… boy I didn’t realize that my reading list was going to be overtaken by Sanderson books for the next 18 months as a caught up on the Cosmere stories. I’ve only got a couple more and then I can finally read some other authors! XD
I really liked the original Mistborn trilogy. I can’t remember if I read all of the second trilogy, or only two of the three but I didn’t like it so much.
I also read the first two or three books of The Stormlight Archives - they are good books but each one is so massive I feel somewhat exhausted just considering starting one.
they are good books but each one is so massive I feel somewhat exhausted just considering starting one
I got the first three bundled in a single ebook. It took me 4 months to finish!
Haha, my girlfriend read the Mistborn trilogy like that. She said it was a bit discouraging when you are reading it on the Kindle and you’ve been reading for like 30 minutes and it’s still just stuck on like 3% read without budging.
Currently reading Oathbringer. I’m more of a sci-fi girl but I do somehow find myself brought in by his fantasy stuff. I’ll have to check out more
I normally read sci-fi too. Loved the Three Body Problem, and I want to check out Greg Egan. Any sci-fi recommendations?
For classics I loved The Day of the Triffids, Planet of the Apes was pretty good too. Slaughterhouse Five was an absolute all-time classic. For modern stuff The Expanse series was absolutely awesome if you haven’t picked that up yet.
If it is the computer and algorithm stuff that draws you to Liu Cixin and Egan, maybe you’d like Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon and Reamde are not sci-fi, but feature interesting computer topics.
Currently reading Mistborn, was recommended by a friend. Liking it so far! Just got to Part 2, I’m sure there’s lots to happen
Oh you sweet summer child! Just wait!!!
I’ve read through all his stuff (except the Alkatraz series, only read the first of that) and I just love him. I know he’s an easy reading kind of writer but he’s my favorite author; it all just clicks with me.
I’ve read all of Cosmere so far (at least, all of it publicly available). I was definitely a huge fan of his in college, like 8 years ago (I remember attending a signing for Word of Radiance with some of my friends in 2014). Got into him from his finishing up WoT, something I was very into in highschool.
I’ve kinda mellowed on him recently. I don’t know if its my tastes changing, or if his writing has been changing (he did lose his long-time editor between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, and imo it shows). I only somewhat liked RoW and Alloy of Law, and I honestly strongly disliked Tress (though, that is tonally very different from his other Cosmere books, and very reliant on his humor, an aspect of his writing that never landed for me).
I read enough I’ll probably still read his next few books (and Sando’s books are easy reads, if often long). I’m hoping they’ll grab me again, but if I feel about them the same why I felt about his last couple, I’ll probably drop his series.
