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brian sanderson
Going to try Brian sanderson's writing. What's his best book? I was thing of Way of
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The Way of Kings is the first of a 10 book series.....you will still be waiting on books 3-10.
I would recommend starting with the first Mistborn trilogy. It starts with Mistborn: The Final Empire. If you want a stand-alone, Elantris or Warbreaker. Not sure if it was a typo, but its Brandon Sanderson. |
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Depends on what you want, for epic fantasy, I would start with Mistborn: The Final Empire like mewmartigan said. The Way of Kings is very good but only 2 are complete and they are VERY long. I personally didn't enjoy Warbreaker as much as the others but it is free on his website.
If you like YA books the Steelheart/Firefight/Calamity (Reckoners series) books are good. He has a science fiction short story on Tor's website as well, Firstborn, unfortunately he doesn't have any other space opera / far future science fiction out yet. |
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Is there any time frame for The third of Way of Kings? Haas Sanderson said what he is working on?
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Brandon Sanderson is very good at saying what he is working on -- see this year's State of the Sanderson address: http://brandonsanderson.com/state-of...anderson-2015/
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So mistborn and stormlight are Briaan Sanderson's best book series. That would explain why Way of Kings has a waiting list of 10 people at the Washington DC library when I lastt looked.
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Brandon Sanderson by the way.
And I don't know about best, just most popular/well known. I enjoyed the Reckoners series as much as the first Mistborn series it is just a different genre. Last edited by Dazrin; 03-27-2016 at 04:43 PM. Reason: spelling |
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I enjoyed all of his books just as much, you cannot make me choose between them.
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I googled metaseries and I understand now however I have another question whaich series are part of the metaseries and in what order?
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Rule of thumb would be that anything set in our world or similar is not in his "Cosmere" meta-series and anything in a world/setting he created is probably a part of the Cosmere.
Here is the decription from The Coppermind wiki - I have edited out part of this that might be a small spoiler. Spoiler:
The Reckoners, Legion, and Alcatraz are not in the Cosmere. I doubt the Rithmatist is either. The Stormlight Archive (Way of Kings), Mistborn, Elantris, and Warbreaker are all part of the Cosmere. I think at this point you can read them in any order as long as you read the individual series in order. That might change later on as he gets deeper into the Stormlight Archive. |
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Since Way of Kings is so popular I take it to mean it's a really great book. Or am I wrong?
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I didn't like Mistborn.
Branderson did do a fair job with the last of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. It wasn't on a par with Jordan's best work, but it did line up with some of Jordan's not so great work which is quite good relative to most authors. Last edited by frahse; 03-31-2016 at 09:34 PM. |
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I absolutely loved the Mistborn trilogy. Just shows that different books appeal to different people.
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His best written story is Emperor's Soul and his best big epic novel is The Way of Kings imho.
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I really wanted to dislike Mistborn, but I really really like it, especially his magic system
Stormlight archive is fantastic |
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