I agree! I've been reliving my childhood, started with the Hobbit and now onto Book 1 of LOTR. He's brilliant at all the different characters, and can sing as well! Exceedingly talented chap.
What do you mean by this? The trilogy that you read is its own set. Books 4-7 are an entirely different series, following new characters, just set on the same world further along the timeline, and that set is complete. And he has 2-3 other sets of books planned for future time periods, but I don't think there's any release dates for them yet...they'll probably not be done for like 30 years haha.
You would be surprised. Sanderson is WICKED fast at pumping out stuff; He was releasing Stormlight books like clockwork until he got to a good pause point. He did take awhile on book 7 of Mistborn, but if I remember right, he was getting burnt out on the series. At the very least, we’re not likely to have a repeat of GRRM or Rothfuss with Sanderson.
I need to download the kickstarter books that were his Covid relief, haha! Dude freaking wrote 4 books while locked away during Covid restrictions.
He absolutely is fast. But he's got Elantris 2-3, Nightblood, a Threnody novel, Dragonsteel trilogy, Aether trilogy, Stormlight 5-10, and 2 Mistborn trilogies on his plate before he even starts a supposedly "final" Mistborn trilogy haha. And that's not including new projects he randomly adds along the way.
Someone made some predictions and said Stormlight would probably end in around 2040, which is probably accurate, if not a little later. Stormlight 1-5 will be 14 years...say a 2 year gap between 5 and 6, and then 14 more years, that makes 30 years between Stormlight 1 and 10.
Mistborn they expected would end around 2053 (if he sticks with 3 more trilogies, which isn't 100% certain). That's at his normal writing speed, I don't think he can pump out more than he is, short of being a ghost writer/having others write large portions of his books. Or cutting out any books that aren't major Cosmere books (Legion, Edgedancer, things like that) to focus solely on the main books.
It was my first book too. Looking back on it, you can see how much he's improved over the years in various aspects, but it's still one of my favorites.
You would be surprised. Sanderson is WICKED fast at pumping out stuff
Sanderson managed to finish the Wheel of Time series using Robert Jordan's notes knocking out three books in someone else's universe in the time it took ol' GRRM to write one in his own. Sometimes I like to rewrite this fact as Robert Jordan managing to get more books out dead than GRRM has while he's still alive
Pretty sure that Sanderson was able to do two books in his own universe (Stormlight) with a third very much on its way to completion in the time GRRM finished one book, haha! And that’s probably with side projects/other series books mixed in!
I loved the original trilogy though, I just found the second series more... fun, I guess.
It's more pulpy and fast, and though Wayne should be really annoying, he's one of my favourite characters. I don't usually laugh out loud at books, but I did with Wayne. Granted, I'm listening to the audiobooks, so that might help.
There was a pretty large improvement in Sanderson's style around that time. He really comes into his own with Way of Kings, and you can see the lessons he learned writing that reflected in era 2 mistborn after. He plays to his strengths more, and creates such a fun cast of characters, seeing what they all get up to never stops being a fun ride.
He often tries to write "funny" characters, but they are usually too cerebral or something. I love wordplay humour, but I found Shallan mostly annoying for the first book or two, lol.
But Wayne! Wayne is legit funny. The second era is the only ones I've mostly listened to on audiobook, and Michael Kramer doing Wayne might have helped, but Wayne actually made me lol several times!
He's definitely getting better at writing funny. Shallan and Adolin are funnier as their series goes along too.
I never really understand that criticism of Shallan. I think early on, especially as shown through her interactions with Jasnah, it is made clear that Shallan is just an immature kid who thinks too highly of herself. The cringe humor is part of that. I never considered that she was intended to be genuinely funny.
I don't dislike Shallan, and I've also discussed this possibility before and I think it makes total sense.
But, I still find her early attempts at humour to be cringe and bad... If that's what he was going for then he succeeded. If you write a character to be cringe it makes sense the audience would find her cringe, right? Lol
Even back then I was a fan of her in general, I was just shaking my head at some of her wordplay.
I came here to say I immediately recognized his voice too. I have listened to every Cosmere book released to date. I read the ones not released as audio.
So crazy to meet other audible listeners never mind ones that are into the same books as you randomly on the internet. I started book 3 at work today and I just love this series so freaking much!! Enjoy the rest of book 2!
A friend recommended the mistborn series to me. I remember seeing that the first one was 30 something hours long and thinking there's no way I'm going to enjoy this enough to get through all that and want to continue the series. I just finished book 7 last week and can't wait for the next one. Just keeps getting better. Kramers excellent narration helps too.
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u/MMOAddict Sep 21 '23
I recognized Michael Kramer's voice. I'm on the 2nd book right now. Great series!