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Pleaaase stop being contrarians for contrarianism sake. The prologue ends with his entire squad getting massacred and his entire journey is coming to terms with being a good person in horrible conditions. The books are also not meant to be deep or life changing, they are just fun. A dragon ball Z fight in the middle of an apocalyptic storm is dope as fuck.
tbh I’d take that over the sci-fi authors who absolutely insist on incorporating their weird kinks into their writing
The books are also not meant to be deep or life changing, they are just fun.
I mean, there’s definitely a critique of society, morality, and spirituality happening in these books. You can’t just ignore the number of parallels between the books and modern social movements.
A bunch of the Twist Endings in the series
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involve subversion of tropes in American conservative/reactionary movements. Just off the top of my head, you’ve got an archeologist that’s lionized the past, only to be confronted with irrefutable evidence that her people’s predecessors were deeply primitive and backwards.
You’ve got a deeply religious man stumbling on a Spiritualist pre-recorded message that drills into his brain “God Is Dead and You Assholes Killed Him” on a damned loop.
You’ve got people grappling with colonialism, with wars over natural resources, with religious schisms, with bigotries, with philosophical struggles over the nature of power…
This goes a bit above some pulpy Flash Gordon tier action/adventure.
People are saying his writing has too many adjectives, but I’m saying it’s far too sparse. Where are these guys standing? What’s the texture of the grass? What can they smell and hear? What’s the history of this particular region? Who are the local lords and to whom are they allied? What marching songs did the army sing on the way to get here?
Yeah, I’m a Tolkien fan.
I still stand by the belief that if he had actually finished the series all of the food descriptions would have been paid off incredibly well by the descriptions of stale rations and empty plates during winter.
I personally hated Brandon’s works because his prose feels dead; it feels purely functional. I tried other stories of his but the prose is always the tripping point (oh, also the video game mechanics). Good prose should feel like your mind comes alive in vivid colors with the beautiful use of literary devices and such. Brandon’s works on the other hand are just simply functional and little else.
It’s a stylistic choice rather than being a bad writer. Read Tress of the Emerald Sea, his latest book and see that. But pirate it because he is Mormon and tithes to homophobic church, despite being decent with queer rep in books
i like the stormlight archives, they’re a fun read :shrug-outta-hecks:
r/bookscirclejerk is a good sub
