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Wow

Seriously, it seems so old

OMG I was thinking EXACTLY THE SAME THING 😂😂😂

LoL. Even the video quality looks old school

Lol

Anyone who reads all of those deserves kudos.

Skipping Pages that made me laugh so hard, thanks 😂😂

Weird flex but okay.

The only book I had a real hard time with is book 10. There were times I had my doubts but it worked out to when I finished it and 11 then Gathering Storm came out like a month after

Oh, hey. What a small little world--love your content (conversations).

@@tejpatel5320 Heh. I was researching when I was planning to do a transition episode from RJ to Sando but I just ran out of time.

Heyyy it’s Mike! To be fair Mike his one per year is more accurate than anything Martin has said about a schedule.

@@aaronmasterson2860 Oh, I'm perfectly fine with Sando's pace. Just having fun.

Mike's Book Reviews I’m having fun too! You’re one of my favorite book tubers! Congrats with business school too btw!

We still have the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire to wait for.

Been comparing him and Rothfuss, and he comes up front easily. Rothfuss in is an highly unlikeable character, while Sanderson is humble and really nice.

@@ChristmasLore Can't wait for Rhythm of War but in the mean time I've been reading American Wasteland by Nick Cole. It's very interesting and poses a lot of existential questions. Highly recommend.

@@ChristmasLore rothfuss is a good writer when he write but kvothe is truly just an extension of rothfuss's own personality. An arrogant man with dangerous hubris and thinks he is the smartest person in the room. I am not saying its a bad thing but it is just an observation of mine

Lol dude I was thinking the same thing and read your comment and I'm dying laughing

I'm crying of laughter man. I thought exactly the same thing!

I thought it was the 90's, tbh.. Man that was funny!

I thought it was just the host, but it's the lighting, quality, background, everything.

This is what a VHS recorded video looks like. They simply did not record this with digital media.

It makes me wonder how many amazing young authors had the skill of people like Sanderson but not the perseverance/determination. We'll never get to read their stories

@@justinj_00 not the case anymore. They can just self publish.

@@mohmmadwaspedorapist5985 Self publishing has its pitfalls. One thing is that the market is over-saturated so it's hard to sort the garbage from the good pieces of work. Another is marketing. Even if you create a masterpiece, the upside of being published by a publishing house is that they cover advertising; Self-published books tend to fail because the author doesn't have the funds to cover promotion.

Nope, Martin's will says to destroy all of his unfinished writing when he dies

@@justinj_00 are u serious?

@@justinj_00 Robert also said he would order all his notes and harddrives destroyed when he died. But approaching his death he realized that he wanted the series completed and changed his mind.

@@justinj_00 what a jerk

@@RexusprimeIX And I'm so grateful that he decided to do that. I'm thankful he let us have an ending, even if he couldn't be the one to deliver it to us. The Wheel of Time is wonderful and it would have been sad to have it left unfinished forever.

Yeah, he is quite a talented writer - there aren't many people who can do what he does and do it so well.

I can't believe he wrote twelve books before publishing his first.

You can see his videos.

Have the privilege! He still teaches at my University!

Well, he posts his lectures online for free. You don't have to be in BYU to be his student.

I'm waiting on the library to send me Way of Kings audio, so I can hear it, after having read it twice :D.

He’s an amazing author. I love both series’ as well and mistborn. 🤘🏻

I started to read The Way of Kings just now and maybe completed 20% of it. But I am still not getting the feels. Maybe it is because of how the story goes slow early on and the world building. But I really want to finish this book. What can I do that would help me finish it? PS - I absolutely loved his take on the final 3 books of TWOT.

@@PrashantSingh-nd8vu First book is slow for first halt. Words of Radiance is my favourite.

@@shashemption hey! I finished Oathbringer as well. It is a masterpiece. Definitely one of the best of all time. The way of Kings was a slow burner but it paid off at the end.

DUDEMIKE8 RJ appeared on this program at least twice - the vids are on YT - so he was already familiar.

+amaxamon I was mostly referring to the Cosmere reference, but I'll be sure to check out those RJ interviews too!

DUDEMIKE8 What's weird is the interviewer is dressed the same and its the same purple curtain behind them!

Naser Aldousari This interview was recorded on June 26, 2010 , not Dec 21, 2014. , 5 years old

+Naser Aldousari Camera is from the 90s

this is awesome, its like a deliberate throwback

It really is palpable

Yep

His rationale was right though. What if he turned it down and someone else took it over and ruined it? He would regret it forever.

Honestly thats not too bad considering some of the other major fantasy writers that are publishing right now (figure of speech they havent published in forever)

@@kylekimminau9476 I have a feeling you are thinking of certain someone

Patrick Rothfuss: Hold my lute

GRR Martin : Let me hold that for you..

GRRM fans are like “You guys got books?”

yeah it looks like the eighties

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again

Best possible reply hahha

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Dat BO

yeah really lame...wtf is there a time limit for. it makes no sense

@@PeterDmitriyev TV shows. They are 30 minutes sharp minus breaks.

@@abj136 this was 17 minutes

@@PeterDmitriyev Minus breaks. The video starts with "we're back" so you can deduct that there was a break before this

Wot was the greatest story ever

It’s between books 6-9 you will struggle the story really slows but the ending makes pushing through more than worth it.

Dude butchered Mat and wrote the ending like a bad anime.

John Smith I disagree I preferred his writing I was getting sick of Jordan’s repetitive manner of characterisation like explaining why Nynaeve was tugging on her braid I mean come on I get it, it’s book 11 I understand she tugs her braid when she is annoyed. And nothing or no one could ever ruin Matt he is was and always will be the greatest WoT character

@@abigailslade3824 Even Sanderson admitted he messed up on Mat.... Also I LIKED that Jordan was consistent. Sanderson can't keep the same style for two chapters running. Drives me insane.

Aw man, I think the same thing all the time. I just started book 12, but their were SO many times where I just put a (3-11) Jordan book down and thought, "Jesus, did ANYONE tell him maybe he should cut it back a bit". There's a part in, I want to say book 10 where Elayne has a bath (sort of) with Aviendha, and it lasts ~four pages. Four pages of describing every step and detail of a bath. My god I didn't pick the book up for days after. Who thought this was good writing? I love the story and it really is worth sticking with, but man he indulges and packs a lot of words without substance. Sorry for the rant.

That’s why i’m struggling with lord of the rings; he goes on so many tangents and i’m thinking “where’s the damn story?”

@@dannylee6068 at least it isnt 14 books long i suppose haha

@@dannylee6068 I had similar trouble all those years ago.

@@quagmillious9627 lmao..yup. Book 10 was the hardest. Picks up again afterwards luckily....couldn't agree with you more...hence I'm now doin the audio books whilst I chill or throw darts. So much easier.

Easily? Maybe for you and many others but not for me and some other people. I'm not saying this to come off as rude (though I can see if it does, I hope it doesn't as I don't mean it too) but the 'best' is really a useless term don't you think? Given that each person will have a different opinion? For me personally Terry Brooks is the best Fantasy writer writing today, not Brandon. Now I know that many find the Shannara series too Tolkiensque or not to their taste in some other way and I respect that, but for me its the greatest Fantasy series ever written and as much as I respect Brandon and his work, he can't compare to Terry in my opinion. And I'm sure other people feel the same way about other authors. The 'best' is a very subjective term and really has no meaning beyond personal taste I think.

I doubt it. Just because there were that many words of the novels, that does not mean there were that many notes. Most books by King have many words but, I assume, not many notes. Even Jo's Wizarding World did not have as many note pages as novel pages, and I can only assume the same is true for Middle-Earth. Remember, 3 million words is a lot of notes, I suggest an absurd number, in fact. It is, say, 10,000 pages. (Note that I hope one does not need 10,000 pages to a high fantasy world, for I, therefore, will need that amount, as well, since I am creating a huge high fantasy world.) P.S: my rough notion thus far would be that you should need maybe 2,000 pages of notes/worldbuilding, not 10,000. But we [I] will see, I suppose.

I mean, Brandon clearly said "3 million words of notes". You're not really basing your speculation on anything other than the fact that gee, it sounds like a lot. (Jordan having that many notes does not at all mean that you or any other author would need that many. You are different people with different processes.)

As an editor I can tell you it's not uncommon for authors to have notes that far exceed their wordcounts, especially for a series.

@@EmmeChatterton this is correct. i have manuscripts with hundreds of pages of notes/outlines for a single 90 page script(s) etc

@@jedidiahmartin1472 it would totally fit Jordan's writing style. He is very detail oriented and there were many plot strings and developtments that had to be finished in the last book, that eventually became 3 books. I can see him having that many notes. He did them for the scenario of his death. He probably wanted the book to be planned out 100% plot-wise in the exact way he wouldve written it.

I think Sanderson did a great job. My interest was definitely waning by the time I reached book 10. I read book 10 and 11 in 1 and a half years. I read the last 3 in 4 months. TGS is my 2nd favourite book in the series and it really revitalised the series for me personally.

“Do, or do not; there is no try.”

Watch his masterclasses on creative writing, they're available for free on his KZfaq channel! Good luck with your writing!🎋

thank you. i paused it as soon as he mentioned this and i was frantically trying to think about *which* possible decision he could be talking about

Agree this is what I thought too, I guess in the original outline he takes the plate and then heads to the Shattered Plains to join Dalinar? Imagine no bridge crews :(

+Mark Birchette YOU MET HIM!?! Oh my GOSH that must have been cool! I really hope I get to meet this awesome man myself one day!

I was trying to work that out, I think you nailed it. I hated it at first, that he didn’t take it; but what follows was a whole wealth of story and lore we would not have gotten if had taken it.

@@dannylee6068 We all hated cause Brandon let us feel how kaladin feels the slavery time. Damn bro this guy is an AWESOME writer hands down.

Yes. That is confirmed at this point FYI

Lol I caught that too, pretty sure Brandon did as well.

The author of that series is George R R Martin and he is still alive

@@weirdo1060 yeah and will never finish it 😅

@@mayareads708 like hell you're right lmao

If he could finish Kvothe story also, would be so grateful. Pretty sure present day Rothfuss will screw it up, badly.

@@ChristmasLore haha I mean Patrick Rothfuss is like 45-50 so he has time. Im so happy I have not started this series xD imma read it in 5-10 years when book 3 exist.

I kind of like the oldie vibe it gives off. Feels nostalgic for sure

Great choice! Hope it’s going well.

It was sad, but remember that Robert Jordan specifically made plans for another author to finish since he was ailing

He said it so casually that I doubt it was hyperbole as well... its goddamn insane!!!