I think he needs less "yes men" on his team too. A moderate effort to improve dialogue and eliminate some of the silly attempts at humor would have improved the book alot.
No more convalescing for BLD! Awesome flex bro 💪 Fun Fact: It is an urban myth that Brian EVER edits anything out of his productions. This is why he maintains The Greatest Television Show in the History of the Universe 😀
Just look at Sanderson's 'normal' hard covers. Color artwork on the exterior and interior of the dust jacket, naked HC cover has a design, color artwork on front and back end pages, tons of art pieces through out the book, all chapter headers have designs. It makes it real hard to buy other hard cover books for the same price, when all they have is art on the front of the dust jacket and that's it. I know the words within the book are what matter most, but Sanderson really adds to the whole experience with just his normal, not special edition, books. It's insane
100% agree. Sanderson’s respect and love for his works are clearly evident in the details of each Hardcover book’s cover art, sleeve jacket (inside & out), and interior and back pages. No other Fantasy hardcovers come close to the investment and value of his books for really the same price as other authors. Every aspect of the book itself is artwork!
no different than any trade harcover for a mainstream big fantasy. The original WoT books had colored endsheets, marked covers, etc. Just a few black and white illustrations missing. The Elric omnibuses from Saga Press have all of what Sanderson has. It is nice, but it is not as rare as you are suggesting.
It’s easy if you cut back on tv and social media. I find myself less stressed when I am doing more reading. I also listen to books while I drive or do chores, it makes boring stuff more fun. You can get audiobooks through the library too!
Here’s a question. Could I read Way of Kings as a standalone and be satisfied without moving forward? Or is there too many loose ends and I’ll feel like I “have” to continue?
I just finished tad Williams navigators children today and just flipped open the first few pages of wind truth. I’m a little behind. Thanks for the review !
Great honest review, looking forward to getting this one under my Christmas tree. Nice T-Shirt ... a gateway band to the J-Rock wormhole if your not careful :)
I bought books one through four like a year or so ago and have been waiting to read them because I knew five was about to come out. I haven’t bought it yet cause I think I might wait till it goes on sale. Frankly, I’m a little nervous. I haven’t read any Brandon Sanderson before. But everyone seems to like this series a lot so I’m willing to give it a try.
Stormlight recap by Wizards and warriors is an excellent explanation of the cosmere and background. The idea I think came from Asimov who united his series into one universe. But so did Heinlein and Stephen King. It makes it easy to understand. th-cam.com/video/uU9QZD6dyss/w-d-xo.html The story revolves on how the original creator God Adonalsium was split apart by mortals who took a shard of it and became gods, and the evil one of them odium is going around and killing the other ones. Humankind is native to a planet farther in from Roshar which was destroyed but they exodused to Roshar.
I’ve read Sanderson’s Steelheart, and the novella, Mitosis that follows it, but the writing was pretty average YA, although I loved the concept. Mitosis was mediocre at best - I suspect a bit of a cash grab, sadly. I’m going to give Mistborn a go, and see if I click with that more.
Good books can still be YA. It's more about the plot more than anything. A good book doesn't need to be complex. Some of the best stories I've ever read were very basic and simple.
It's kinda like Star Wars fantasy, at least for me. though his approach is not the Jedi approach of spiritualism and stuff. it's more complex and nuanced. Though, I have never been able to get into this series. I mean I often find myself wondering while the book is a big immersive world, why SHOULD I care about Shallan, Kaladin and Dalinar. Though being an artist, i should like Shallan [I love it when people put artists in sci fi or fantasy because they almost never do or did}. I feel no real connection to the universe because things seem fabricated. While in star wars I really feel the sympathy for skywalker, or star trek has great characters, or dragonlance has great characters, or why do i care about lor dof the rings, its frodo. And all the great characters. But if someone were to ask me, what's a great character I wouldnt necessarily just pop out Kaladin or Dalanar, though they have interesting lives to be sure. Maybe it would be cool if the characters WERE in something spiritual like the Jedi.? Now that would be a great idea. That's what makes Dragonlance cool is the mage orders. I think Voidbringers {Spoiler} are Human's descendents? Just the cover art however makes me feel more "Impressionism" as a vibe than the usual fantasy style--- though it's definitely whelan. Its greens, the trees of landscape, snowy mountains, grey stone, maybe some celtic like forms. The usual fantasy cover is defined drawn covers, maybe some medievalism but all this tight fantasy realism, and then you look at stormlight books and it's like pastels, pinks purples, suddenly Degas is doing covers.....Lol. At the same time, then people say they love these books because of characters with psychological issues. In fact Brian says it himself, though I might be extrapolating: "I read the Mistborn books but I don't remember a whole lot about them." I mean you SHOULD remember a book, though everything's subjective. I can remember everything about the Lord of the Rings, because it's so memorable. I can remember the Silver Chair by Lewis, and the green witch because it's so memorable.
Haven't read Sanderson yet. I have many great authors to get to slowly and surely. But I hear you that every book needs to have something memorable. I read Drizzt a while back for my easy pulp read. Another great memorable character imho. Currently reading the original Thrawn trilogy. Not quite as good as the first 6 drizzt books. But I think the movies go a long way to cementing our memories of those much loved characters. I hear Sanderson will bring his work to the s rren soon. If he can do something close to Lucas or Rowling than maybe his characters can become as iconic as the ones you mention.
I find it more and more Current Year™️ but I’m very weary of the insertions. It feels like he goes for less brain and more brawn, don’t really care for it but it is well done as per usual. Loved the first 3 books though.
I liked Book 1 and most of Book 2, but once people started flying around having battles in the sky, the series lost me. I tried Book 3 because I like Shallan but I stalled out about a third of the way thru and haven't revisited it since.
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS The concept of the expendable bridge men in the first book was so compelling. That's what I miss. That type of furious ground combat.
@cto1gg That's what drew me in. I should have stopped after book 2, but alas, it took me 4 to give up on the silly series. Can't stand Marvel and I certainly don't want it in my fantasy. Nor do I need a physics correlation to the magic system that just parrots modern understanding 1 to 1.
Enjoyed most of the book. Most of the chapters with Rlain and Renarin just nasty. I know Brandon wanted to include mental illnesses and homosexuality is one of the biggest out there but it would be great if they could cure homosexuality with some stormlight.
I don't read Sanderson. I have tried a couple times and he is not for me - at all. That said, I have heard that his changes in his opinion on LGBTQIA+ crap is being pushed hardcore into this book. Very big push. He said that this book could be a big crash for him and those negative reviewers are explaining why. If you are hardcore into the Progressive worldview then you might like it, but if you want divisive politics being left out of books meant for all then you won't. PS - this is not just about "representation" but much more than that. An actual pushing of an agenda. This is not from me, as I don't read him. This is from former Sanderson fans.
Brain, I’m in the minority of people who watch this who hasn’t even read book 1 The Way of Kings yet. I have The Way of Kings on my shelf. But I’m really on the fence about should I read this series or not. That’s because I hear Brandon Sanderson is kinda like Stephen King in that there both Democrats and LGBT supporters. I am a Traditional Conservative, so Brandon Sanderson being an LGBT supporter so I hear doesn’t really sit well with me. Plus I have heard that he spells things out when he shoulda just infered it.
You don't want to read somebody's work just because they support the idea that people can love whoever they feel like it, without being ostracized and discriminated? Then you're not a conservative, you're a bigot. I'm not from the US, so I don't care about your politics, but LGBT rights are universal. You can dislike his writing style, his ideas, the genres in which he works, that's all perfectly fine. But doing it out of homophobia? Remember watching movies or reading books as a kid, hoping the good guy would triumph over the bad guy? Well, somehow you turned into the bad guy.
I have read vary little of Sander son's work. I tried the first book in this series and put it down largely because I has other books to read. That said he is also a practicing Mormon so he is far from King. From what I have seen from people talking about his work and my attempt in reading him his work comes of more PG-13 superhero action story. King can be a hard R a lot of the time and often deals in the now. Roland in the first book of The Dark Tower beds a woman before killing everyone including her in the town. The Stand has man on man rape and people being crucified on the side of highway. Salem's lot which I am re reading has a woman beating the shit out her screaming baby and a married woman having an affair. The Shining has husband beating the shit out of his wife, if I remember right under the dome has a gang rape scene and a man spending time with naked corpse of a woman. And Sanderson writes nothing like that. There is violence but nothing close to what King writes and sex is nowhere in his books as I understand it.
You need to separate politics and view points from the books. If I didn't read any authors who's political or social viewpoints I didn't agree with, then I would hardly get to read any books at all. I'm a bit more liberal, but I don't check to see if an author is a conservative or not before I decide to read him. I mean Ted Nugent is an absolute right wing nut job, but I still enjoy his music.
Do not start this series! While it starts off we'll it devolves into a Woke disaster! This latest book features transgender ideology, bestiality and same sex romance. It's deplorable to say the least and certainly not safe for children to read. I hope you read this so I can save you from going down this path. All the best.
You're a machine! I'm coming up on the halfway point.
@@NerdishlyActive I certainly will since I have your permission. Have a great day!
@@mikesbookreviews He deleted his comment lol
Just finished wind and truth. Excellent stuff! Just wanna mention i finished all of your books this year and they are fantastic!
this book seems to be a little long for no reason. A better editor couldve cleaned this up nicely.
I think he needs less "yes men" on his team too. A moderate effort to improve dialogue and eliminate some of the silly attempts at humor would have improved the book alot.
@@mattmichael3310very true his team consists of big Sanderson fans
I would go as far to say that all of the books have an unjustified page count (some more than others)
Brian's arm got sore holding up the book for 20 minutes.
No more convalescing for BLD! Awesome flex bro 💪
Fun Fact: It is an urban myth that Brian EVER edits anything out of his productions. This is why he maintains The Greatest Television Show in the History of the Universe 😀
You could use it to work out/
Just look at Sanderson's 'normal' hard covers. Color artwork on the exterior and interior of the dust jacket, naked HC cover has a design, color artwork on front and back end pages, tons of art pieces through out the book, all chapter headers have designs. It makes it real hard to buy other hard cover books for the same price, when all they have is art on the front of the dust jacket and that's it. I know the words within the book are what matter most, but Sanderson really adds to the whole experience with just his normal, not special edition, books. It's insane
100% agree. Sanderson’s respect and love for his works are clearly evident in the details of each Hardcover book’s cover art, sleeve jacket (inside & out), and interior and back pages. No other Fantasy hardcovers come close to the investment and value of his books for really the same price as other authors. Every aspect of the book itself is artwork!
Indie authors do this as well. Check out A Princes Errand by Robert and Dan Zangari and The Bound And The Broken series by Ryan Cahill
no different than any trade harcover for a mainstream big fantasy. The original WoT books had colored endsheets, marked covers, etc. Just a few black and white illustrations missing. The Elric omnibuses from Saga Press have all of what Sanderson has. It is nice, but it is not as rare as you are suggesting.
love the little personal anecdote about sanderson, what a nice dude!
@@tine272 thanks.
Found your channel through Jonathan Koan & Mike's Book Reviews!
I really need to start a reading habit soon as I love Fantasy & Sci Fi.
Keep it up!
It’s easy if you cut back on tv and social media. I find myself less stressed when I am doing more reading. I also listen to books while I drive or do chores, it makes boring stuff more fun. You can get audiobooks through the library too!
I love how you show the inside of the book and the art :) my book is coming on Monday so this was great!
Loved hearing ur thoughts
Here’s a question. Could I read Way of Kings as a standalone and be satisfied without moving forward? Or is there too many loose ends and I’ll feel like I “have” to continue?
Oh boy there's no way it'll feel like a standalone
Possibly the best review you've ever done, Brian, and I would know. I've watched since you first got on youtube.
You look good, glad you are well, thank you for the review!
Out of curiosity, where would you rank this one along with the others?
@@austinvaughn8015 my least favorite
The comment on Avenger like Fantasy is so true and is one of the main reasons I cannot read him.
That's how I feel, too.
I am a teacher. This is my planning period. When you said "pagan sorcery" I laughed out loud to an empty classroom!
Sending the utmost respect to all the good teachers. It's not easy.
Glad u found it amusing
I just finished tad Williams navigators children today and just flipped open the first few pages of wind truth. I’m a little behind. Thanks for the review !
Great honest review, looking forward to getting this one under my Christmas tree. Nice T-Shirt ... a gateway band to the J-Rock wormhole if your not careful :)
I’m listening to the audio book and I’m barely halfway through (I listen at work delivering mail). You burned through it!
I knew you'd read this super quickly.
"Didn't grow up as an assassin..." Haha!
I bought books one through four like a year or so ago and have been waiting to read them because I knew five was about to come out. I haven’t bought it yet cause I think I might wait till it goes on sale. Frankly, I’m a little nervous. I haven’t read any Brandon Sanderson before. But everyone seems to like this series a lot so I’m willing to give it a try.
With the vehicle, are you talking about Rysyn? It’s in the Dawnshard novella.
I only read mistborn but i have all stormlight books(except the last one) on the shelf waiting me to read them.
I recommend the standalone Warbreaker too before the second Stormlight book. It’s also just a good book!
Stormlight recap by Wizards and warriors is an excellent explanation of the cosmere and background. The idea I think came from Asimov who united his series into one universe. But so did Heinlein and Stephen King. It makes it easy to understand. th-cam.com/video/uU9QZD6dyss/w-d-xo.html The story revolves on how the original creator God Adonalsium was split apart by mortals who took a shard of it and became gods, and the evil one of them odium is going around and killing the other ones. Humankind is native to a planet farther in from Roshar which was destroyed but they exodused to Roshar.
Didnt grow up as an assassin 😂😂 i just finished, this was my favorite Stormlight book. Absolutely remarkable
I’ve read Sanderson’s Steelheart, and the novella, Mitosis that follows it, but the writing was pretty average YA, although I loved the concept. Mitosis was mediocre at best - I suspect a bit of a cash grab, sadly. I’m going to give Mistborn a go, and see if I click with that more.
Mistborn is also very YA. Stormlight is better. Although the prose in his new book (WaT) was disappointing imo.
Stormlight is GOATED! I love mistborn too, but maybe jump to stormlight
Steelheart is considering among his weakest. Try Warbreaker or Mistborn.
Those books are not anywhere near his Cosmere novels
Good books can still be YA. It's more about the plot more than anything. A good book doesn't need to be complex. Some of the best stories I've ever read were very basic and simple.
Kitna cute aadmi hai. Itne der bola phir bhi kuchh nahi bola 😂😂😂 mast review tha
It's kinda like Star Wars fantasy, at least for me. though his approach is not the Jedi approach of spiritualism and stuff. it's more complex and nuanced. Though, I have never been able to get into this series. I mean I often find myself wondering while the book is a big immersive world, why SHOULD I care about Shallan, Kaladin and Dalinar. Though being an artist, i should like Shallan [I love it when people put artists in sci fi or fantasy because they almost never do or did}. I feel no real connection to the universe because things seem fabricated. While in star wars I really feel the sympathy for skywalker, or star trek has great characters, or dragonlance has great characters, or why do i care about lor dof the rings, its frodo. And all the great characters. But if someone were to ask me, what's a great character I wouldnt necessarily just pop out Kaladin or Dalanar, though they have interesting lives to be sure. Maybe it would be cool if the characters WERE in something spiritual like the Jedi.? Now that would be a great idea. That's what makes Dragonlance cool is the mage orders. I think Voidbringers {Spoiler} are Human's descendents? Just the cover art however makes me feel more "Impressionism" as a vibe than the usual fantasy style--- though it's definitely whelan. Its greens, the trees of landscape, snowy mountains, grey stone, maybe some celtic like forms. The usual fantasy cover is defined drawn covers, maybe some medievalism but all this tight fantasy realism, and then you look at stormlight books and it's like pastels, pinks purples, suddenly Degas is doing covers.....Lol. At the same time, then people say they love these books because of characters with psychological issues. In fact Brian says it himself, though I might be extrapolating: "I read the Mistborn books but I don't remember a whole lot about them." I mean you SHOULD remember a book, though everything's subjective. I can remember everything about the Lord of the Rings, because it's so memorable. I can remember the Silver Chair by Lewis, and the green witch because it's so memorable.
Haven't read Sanderson yet. I have many great authors to get to slowly and surely. But I hear you that every book needs to have something memorable. I read Drizzt a while back for my easy pulp read. Another great memorable character imho. Currently reading the original Thrawn trilogy. Not quite as good as the first 6 drizzt books. But I think the movies go a long way to cementing our memories of those much loved characters. I hear Sanderson will bring his work to the s rren soon. If he can do something close to Lucas or Rowling than maybe his characters can become as iconic as the ones you mention.
one could tell BLD is not very enthusiastic about this book but doing his best to give positives about it.
What do you think the Raiders should do in the draft?
@@TalonBray hmmmmm...I dunno. QB?
I was like 100% sure he was gonna come up with a review fast
Im glad im not the only one that laughed at poop jokes
Damn I just started day 3.
I find it more and more Current Year™️ but I’m very weary of the insertions.
It feels like he goes for less brain and more brawn, don’t really care for it but it is well done as per usual.
Loved the first 3 books though.
I liked Book 1 and most of Book 2, but once people started flying around having battles in the sky, the series lost me. I tried Book 3 because I like Shallan but I stalled out about a third of the way thru and haven't revisited it since.
@@cto1gg i do not like the flying either. Mentioned that in this review even
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS The concept of the expendable bridge men in the first book was so compelling. That's what I miss. That type of furious ground combat.
@cto1gg That's what drew me in. I should have stopped after book 2, but alas, it took me 4 to give up on the silly series. Can't stand Marvel and I certainly don't want it in my fantasy. Nor do I need a physics correlation to the magic system that just parrots modern understanding 1 to 1.
How are you feeling my friend?
@@eddiegonzalez5070 good thank you
Bro, you're a really smart guy and I loved this breakdown but the Raiders....? 🤢
Enjoyed most of the book. Most of the chapters with Rlain and Renarin just nasty. I know Brandon wanted to include mental illnesses and homosexuality is one of the biggest out there but it would be great if they could cure homosexuality with some stormlight.
I'm so far behind on this series. Why do fantasy authors have to be so long winded? lol seriously!
OK - I'll bite. What is - The Warning? Keep on reading!
It’s the warning to always be careful not to shart yourself
There's a rock band called the warning with that same lettering. So I'm assuming that's what that t-shirt is
The Warning is a rock band out of Mexico, made up of 3 sisters. They're great!
it's an all female rock band. They are pretty awesome!
I want to read faster, but i find myself missing small details that immerse me deeper in the story.. any tips ?
I don't read Sanderson. I have tried a couple times and he is not for me - at all. That said, I have heard that his changes in his opinion on LGBTQIA+ crap is being pushed hardcore into this book. Very big push. He said that this book could be a big crash for him and those negative reviewers are explaining why. If you are hardcore into the Progressive worldview then you might like it, but if you want divisive politics being left out of books meant for all then you won't.
PS - this is not just about "representation" but much more than that. An actual pushing of an agenda. This is not from me, as I don't read him. This is from former Sanderson fans.
Correct, sir
What Agenda?
Snowflake
@pranavnarenelangovan435 your comment makes zero sense
@@JohnAndrewMacDonald He's calling you sensitive because of your comment
Stop saying archives its archive
archives
@briandurfee3336 it's not read on the covers
archives
@ben_blackwood it's not it's archive
@ben_blackwood look at the covers of the books it saids archive
Brain, I’m in the minority of people who watch this who hasn’t even read book 1 The Way of Kings yet. I have The Way of Kings on my shelf. But I’m really on the fence about should I read this series or not. That’s because I hear Brandon Sanderson is kinda like Stephen King in that there both Democrats and LGBT supporters. I am a Traditional Conservative, so Brandon Sanderson being an LGBT supporter so I hear doesn’t really sit well with me. Plus I have heard that he spells things out when he shoulda just infered it.
You don't want to read somebody's work just because they support the idea that people can love whoever they feel like it, without being ostracized and discriminated? Then you're not a conservative, you're a bigot. I'm not from the US, so I don't care about your politics, but LGBT rights are universal. You can dislike his writing style, his ideas, the genres in which he works, that's all perfectly fine. But doing it out of homophobia? Remember watching movies or reading books as a kid, hoping the good guy would triumph over the bad guy? Well, somehow you turned into the bad guy.
I have read vary little of Sander son's work. I tried the first book in this series and put it down largely because I has other books to read. That said he is also a practicing Mormon so he is far from King. From what I have seen from people talking about his work and my attempt in reading him his work comes of more PG-13 superhero action story. King can be a hard R a lot of the time and often deals in the now. Roland in the first book of The Dark Tower beds a woman before killing everyone including her in the town. The Stand has man on man rape and people being crucified on the side of highway. Salem's lot which I am re reading has a woman beating the shit out her screaming baby and a married woman having an affair. The Shining has husband beating the shit out of his wife, if I remember right under the dome has a gang rape scene and a man spending time with naked corpse of a woman.
And Sanderson writes nothing like that. There is violence but nothing close to what King writes and sex is nowhere in his books as I understand it.
You need to separate politics and view points from the books. If I didn't read any authors who's political or social viewpoints I didn't agree with, then I would hardly get to read any books at all. I'm a bit more liberal, but I don't check to see if an author is a conservative or not before I decide to read him. I mean Ted Nugent is an absolute right wing nut job, but I still enjoy his music.
I'm sorry but what about my life affects you? Hateful.
Do not start this series! While it starts off we'll it devolves into a Woke disaster! This latest book features transgender ideology, bestiality and same sex romance. It's deplorable to say the least and certainly not safe for children to read. I hope you read this so I can save you from going down this path. All the best.
I'm holding out for the entire series to be released. Having to reread The Wheel of Time books several times has influenced me to wait patiently.