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I listened to the audiobook, and for the first twenty minutes, it was well into NOPE NOPE NOPE territory for me. It was hitting all my NOPE buttons: excessively macho guys having pissing contests, stupid new terms that just BALLOON off the (virtual) page and ruin the narrative flow, loathsome main characters, needless brutality... Plus, I didn't like the reader in the audio version.
Then, at some point (several hours in), it grew on me. I started to look forwa ...more
I listened to the audiobook, and for the first twenty minutes, it was well into NOPE NOPE NOPE territory for me. It was hitting all my NOPE buttons: excessively macho guys having pissing contests, stupid new terms that just BALLOON off the (virtual) page and ruin the narrative flow, loathsome main characters, needless brutality... Plus, I didn't like the reader in the audio version.
Then, at some point (several hours in), it grew on me. I started to look forwa ...more
might stop reading it for a while. the writing is great, the magic and the world is beautiful and yet i am not a fan of epic, 3 book, fantasy books with lots of action and fighting. i mostly like standalones and i really don't like action, war and fighting. and so while i am going to stop now that i can, chapter 7 is a good time to stop, chapter 17th would have been so much harder.
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Sanderson's first book, Elantris set a high bar for his storytelling: it mixed classic fantasy tropes without being easily summarized by cliches and it left a world begging for a sequel.
Mistborn takes a different tack. It hides its fantasy tropes under the structure and language of other genres, especially political intrigue (a common fellow-traveler with fantasy) and heist stories, and this time the plot fits easily in to some of the most overdone cliches in the genre.
It works out really well. ...more
Mistborn takes a different tack. It hides its fantasy tropes under the structure and language of other genres, especially political intrigue (a common fellow-traveler with fantasy) and heist stories, and this time the plot fits easily in to some of the most overdone cliches in the genre.
It works out really well. ...more
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