Nerdforge makes absurdly large Stormlight leatherbounds and delivers them to Brandon Sanderson
Nerdforge makes absurdly large Stormlight leatherbounds and delivers them to Brandon Sanderson
I'm not a big YouTube guy, but this is interesting, and I know a lot of people in here are reading/looking forward to reading Wind and Truth. Her end result is some beautiful (obviously impractical) books that make the regular giant hardcovers look like little baby books.
If you ignore the handful of YouTube-isms it's a pretty cool video.
I struggle to enjoy what YouTube has become and as a result don't follow much anything anymore... But I do want to thank you for sharing this video!
The amount of skill and creativity and love that went into these books was absolutely incredible to watch. I'm going to show my family. Seriously, this was such a pleasure.
And while I have read Brandon Sanderson books (introduced to him through the WoT), I haven't actually read the Stormlight Archive. My partner has though and they are really excited about the latest book. I think I know what my next series will be.
Incredible! 💜
It's weird, because they're absurdly long, but the moment to moment and scene to scene writing never makes it feel that way.
But they are for sure seriously long. (The audiobooks are 45, 48, 55, 57, 63 hours.) And by the end there are probably at least a dozen characters that I really care about, and many more that played crucial roles. Some of them feel like just names early, but a lot get built out into people that feel real.
It was already my favorite series once I powered through the first 4, but Wind and Truth went above and beyond and re-defined what I consider epic fantasy to be with the paths it opened up.
So I have to correct my previous statement about my partner reading through the series. Apparently they read through Oathbringer but it dragged on so long that by the time book 4 came out they felt burnt out. "Remember how you felt with WoT 10? That's how I felt with Oathbringer." With the fifth book out though, they're interested in perhaps restarting the series.
I like Sanderson. I really enjoyed Mistborn, for instance. I really don't want to get into another situation where I'm hundreds of hours into something and only continuing out of stubbornness. I don't like to leave things unfinished, but pressing forward can sometimes make me no longer like an author. Truth is, some series pick up after a slog and could even become my very favorite (as was the case with WoT). Ah, how epics can go so very right or so very wrong. Haha.
Sounds like your opinion is that book 5 makes it all worth it though.
With all that said, I think I might actually read Mistborn era 2 books first. I only just realized that they were out. I've been reading so many other authors that I haven't paid much attention to Sanderson for a while. I only heard the occasional, "My god this book is never going to end" from my partner. 😁
I'm listening to the wandering inn and feel something similar. It's a huge series, one of the biggest. I love certain parts of it but I have to take a break sometimes. And certain characters can take it or leave it.