[ SECRET POST #5933 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5933 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Will be missing a Friday post this week (traveling!). Just a heads up!

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Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/d0zwtLn.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for making my comment a secret! Sorry about the italic typo ^^

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, why can't men read? Is it just lack of education or is there a magic reason?

Also, goddamn I wish people would make cool art like the one in the secret for my own mediocre writing. That's a lovely painting.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a law that men aren't allowed to learn to read.

[(Anonymous)]

What jobs do they then have to do where reading would be required?

[(Anonymous)]

Being king

[(Anonymous)]

Don't need to read to be king!

[philstar22]

To each their own. But I very much disagree that his characters aren't well-developed. Yes, his strongest attribute is the worldbuilding, but his characters are pretty great too.

[tabaqui]

Who is this author? Is it (googles) Brandon?

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, Brandy Sandy

[tabaqui]

*snerk*
His author photo is...underwhelming. Which is stupid to say, but...there it is.

[feotakahari]

Sanderson is less obviously Mormon than, say, Card, but I feel like he’s just Mormon enough to be annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea he was Mormon until that stupid article about it a couple weeks ago.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. It's widely known. Especially with him having taught classes at BYU. And people swear that he doesn't inject any Mormonism into his works, but that's untrue, they just don't know enough about it to recognize it.

[(Anonymous)]

My thing with Sanderson is that his writing didn’t make me feel anything. I wasn’t excited or nervous or curious, I was just reading out of habit. I expect to feel a multitude of emotions when I’m reading fantasy and a good story will be in my mind even when I’m not reading it; I just didn’t experience that with his work :(

[(Anonymous)]

I don't try his books any more because they're just so "this happens, then this happens, then this happens, the end." I want to use the word procedural, but that has a different connotation due to the genre of TV shows.

But what is this thing that men can't read?

[starfleetbrat]

You know I had never heard of this author or his books before last weekend and now they are popping up everywhere. On booktube, blogs, and now even here. Is there something new with him going on to create all this content based around him or does he just have a really clever marketing team?

[feotakahari]

Looks like there was a Wired article that really made fans angry.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even a fan of his, and the article made me angry. It was petty clickbait and a prime example of how everyone irrationally needs to have a moral reason behind their dislike for media. It wasn't enough for the journalist (and I should put that in quotes) to just not like the guy's books, he had to reach for a reason why he's objectively a bad person.

[(Anonymous)]

He's been a booktube darling for a while if your genre of choice is adult fantasy as opposed to YA, or contemporary fiction. And he has churned out plenty of books. But the recent article probably led to people who normally talk about other stuff to talk about him, too.

[starfleetbrat]

yeah I am mostly a sci-fi/horror person, but I've followed quite a few new (to me) people in the past month or two who read wider including fantasy (fantasy is so not my cup of tea) so I guess that might be why he is coming up more often. Though some of my regular channels have mentioned him too.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven’t heard about the article everyone is mentioning but I do know he is one of the trailblazers for Kickstarter publishing* and has been doing a ton of marketing because of it.

*Kickstarter publishing meaning authors who leave their publishers and then fund their own publishing on KS. They get a lot more money, more freedom with choice of editor, artwork, digital copy quality and distribution, audio narration and distribution, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

There was the Wired article recently, but also, he is probably the most popular active writer of (non-YA) epic fantasy.

He is a big deal in those circles.

[(Anonymous)]

I've only read the Wheel of Time books he finished for Robert Jordan and the shift between the two authors was really jarring to me. It wasn't even a massive difference, but I never felt like I adjusted to his style. When I finished the series (which I did enjoy!), I had no desire to read his own books. And I've heard really good things about Sanderson's books.

Just started reading him

[(Anonymous)]

My issues, especially with Stormlight, is the pacing. He takes forever to get the ball rolling, and then it does, and its cool, and then...BAM! Here's some "interludes" focusing on randos I couldn't care less about.