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alectology-archive · 2 years ago

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The approaching refugees would soon discover that they’d been marching toward danger. It was not surprising. Danger was in all directions. The only way to avoid walking toward it would be to stand still.

I'll be doing just fine and then bam if I actually start focusing on sanderson's prose I feel like banging my head against a wall because it's so utterly lacking any grace and style and is amateurish to the core. The only other thing that annoys me more is his sheer lack of subtlety - he just straight up bludgeons the readers on the head and tells them what they're supposed to feel instead of trying to construct a work that allows for different interpretations and lets the readers actually engage with the text in a meaningful way instead of spoon-feeding everything to them.

#bless the people who enjoy his books but I feel anybody who can't write a decent sentence can join the rest of the garbage no matter how #good the plot and story structure might be #text #brandon #I have a rand pov now: good. perrin is a part of it: bad.#aelia reads wheel of time #also this is very much a criticism about how he characterises people and not his ability to write plot #although I don't like it much either #I don't gel well with useless exposition for 800 pages followed by a 200 page climax which is very good.#you can tell that his priorities just lie in plot and that's why I cannot stand his writing style #aelia reads a memory of light

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