"A devastating storm which recharges everyone's lightbulbs, which is also their money." Loved this bit.

The Way of Kings was my first Sanderson book. I greatly enjoyed being thrown into Roshar with no early explanation. I don't think I had experienced that sense of wonder reading a book before.

This was really great

Ah man the interludes hahaha. I'd forgotten about the damn interludes. I hate them and love them. They are great and fill you in with parts of the world you'd never see otherwise... But they also take you out of the story for 30 pages right after a cliffhanger and AAAAAAAH

I once heard a renowned military historian and author say that the reason many people love to study military history is that we are drawn to ordinary people facing the absolute extremes of human experience. And I think this is where Brandon most shines. Brandon puts his characters through hell and though they usually come out the other side, it's not without terrible costs. This book gives us the hell that was Kaladin's life.

My favorite thing about Sanderson is that *everything* will eventually be explained or at least the explanation is out there (90% of the time in another book). Nothing is unimportant because every scene, every interlude, will be important later down the line/is important for Cosmere reasons. Everyone thing will make sense, none of this vagueness and “imagine the answer yourself” stuff, everything is connected and has almost scientific-levels of accuracy once you begin understand what’s *really* behind it all. It’s truly a fantastic experience reading the Cosmere like a detective looking for clues.

Roshar has grass, it’s just . . . shy.

Commenting for the algorithm!! Bring on the Cosmere video essays

WoK was my first Sanderson book and I loved it. I’ve Become a fan ever since. The prelude with the heralds had me lost but intruiged. However it was Szeth’s prologue that made the think “ok wow if the rest of the book has this kind of thing in it then this is gonna be awesome.” And it did. And it was!

I totally agree. It's a rough start, but it's worth the effort. I would only recommend it to someone who knows Sanderson's writing and will stick out the first 5 or so chapters. I imagine if you can get to the honor chasm, you're probably hooked.

When Mistborn was my first Brandon Sanderson book, but way of kings have a special place in my heart....it will have that spot there forever

Loved this video! I’m not a massive Fantasy Person™️, but started listening to them on Audible and really got stuck in! I think the main thing that kept me engaged was the focus on characters, no matter how strange the world in the stormlight archive is, the focus on interpersonal relationships and the character’s emotions kept me grounded in something I could always relate to (ie being a person experiencing the world!). Loved this video, looking forward to the next one!

My understanding of Truthless, is that it is one of the Shin's most severe punishments for a crime, like a combination of being banished + enslaved. He gets made truthless because he thinks the desolation is coming and the Knights Radiants are returning, and the Shin leadership desperately wants that to not be the case, so rather than checking or engaging with why he thinks that they brand him a seditious liar and banish him. My understanding of why he lists himself as Vallano's Grandson rather than his father's son is probably because his grandfather is dead, and thus his reputation will not be tainted by association with him.

6:40 great shardbearer drawing!

"Standardsons" I swear I was paying attention but that word is all I can pay attention to now

I won't lie, i started this book over several times before it finally grabbed me. I've now read each Stormlight book 4 or 5 times. They consumed me lol. Love this series

Came from 17th shard discord as well, and I really enjoyed the video! It was really polished and well-edited. The spren were fascinating to me. I first thought they were just a weird quirk of the world, and were an interesting mystery, but only in the background. But they became more and more important, and (mild spoilers!) fundamental to the magic itself, which was rewarding after spending so much time puzzling over it. Looking forward to the next video!

It was the 1st book I've read in about 15 years. Loved it.

Currently, I'm at this scene where Shallan is telling her story and she went to this city called Kharbranth, looking for Jasnah Kholin... I still have more than 1,000 pages to go...

Great video! I’m reading it for the first time right now and I’m close to finishing it. I love it!

I'm 500 pages in and its definately growing on me. I especially like the interludes because you get a glimpse into a completely new character and place for just one chapter. It builds the world just a bit more and let's you in on a few more bits of lore.

That was a really good video, and summed up the concept of why Stormlight can feel very difficult. But I agree, I really enjoyed the book despite - or perhaps partially because - it is so complex and hard to get into for a lot of people.

I am one of those people you bring up who loves seeing the connections between Cosmere books. I love the characters and story as well. I am not a person who can easily guess where a story is going so almost every twist hits me like a truck. 😅

There were definitely some rough parts for me, mostly the dang interludes that make 0 sense at the start, and some of the less interesting characters at the start (anyone who wasn't Kaladin Or Dalinar) The thing I love most about Way of Kings is the almost mythological mystery. In the later books, the mystery is more akin to a puzzle the characters must solve. In the early books, the mystery is a veil covering Roshar's history, and it's almost scary. Exact same reason why I love the first mistborn trilogy.

Love the effort put into this, hope you keep making content! Subscribed within 10 seconds just based on the premise and video quality, nice 👍

The first read through was incredible, and I also very much enjoyed the second, because I had gone on to read much of the Cosmere and--with the context--was able to understand the series so much more.

I was hesitant to get into Stormlight, especially since I've never read Sanderson before but, as someone whose favorite books ever are the Malazan books, I can say with absolute confidence that The Way of Kings is WAY easier to read, prose-wise, than Erikson. So far I'm really enjoying the "show, don't tell" aspect of his writing style and I will say that the Szeth 'prologue' had me absolutely hooked.

Funnily enough, I got through it precisely because I had the Coppermind wiki. Like, everyone says don't read it cuz of spoilers, but I'm one of those weird people who actually LIKES being spoiled because I hate surprises. So, while I was reading, I would write down names and stuff, then immediately look them up on the wiki. It sounds self-defeating, but I really think knowing where a story is going can help get you through the "harder" parts- especially a story as dense as this one. Hence, I'm 86% of the way through Book 1, but I already know how Book 4 ends, and I am not upset about that fact because spoilers do not ruin a story for me. Hell, they actually get me INTO a story. Journey before destination, but knowing WHAT the destination is can honestly help.

I was initially going to comment smth like “it’s not that hard come on” but then reading the comments made me remember spren, perpendicularities, shards etc. and the title suddenly became more clear to me lol

Very solid video and impressive editing for being such a new channel. Good luck in your endeavors making more videos! I’ll be here watching.

For me, the audiobook is a much better experience. Not just because of the performances and convenience, but because I can't obsess. For years I didn't like this genre because I feel like I can't move on until I "get it". With audiobooks, I don't have that luxury. The story keeps reading along. Sometimes I get the description exactly in my head, sometimes a vague idea, sometimes I'm confused. When I'm confused, I realized, I'm usually supposed to be, and it doesn't hurt the story as Brandon will make stuff clear, when I'm supposed to understand. The early mention of "fearspren and rockbuds" don't matter in a particular way, except to say "this world is not ours, and you will see that more and more." If you can take those things as that, I think the story is much more approachable.

...recharges everyone's lightbulbs... which is also their money. X-D

No joke, as I was reading the sample, the part where the description of spheres first comes in was what sold me on buying the book.

Found this video from the 17th shard discord and really enjoyed it Great video, keep it up!

I'm convinced spren is based on icons from The Sims, telling us how the person is feeling 😂

I like ur style sir, and the cut of your jib! I first read the way of kings at around age 13, after having loved mistborn and elantris. I'd already been exposed to his style, and I knew he liked to immerse his readers in magic, and I was so so ready for that when this book was given to me for christmas, that the 3 openers and strange words didnt bother me at all. Its a great read, but I agree with your points and I think that you've got a great start to a channel here!

You have great content dude. Very soothing voice. Keep it up!

When I first read the way of kings I was so confused up until the 3/4 point because it felt like information overload. But I kept persisting because I really loved the prose and the characters I had come to know (Kaladin was my favorite at that point). It felt so easy to read (compared to LotR), and it felt like I was really in the characters head. Nothing really clicked into place until I was 1/4 into WoR. I’m trying to get my husband into WoK, he’s struggling to get into it because of how the book is set up. I keep telling him it sets up an “air of mystery *waves fingers magically and oooo’s*” But I might just send him your video instead lol. You put everything that my husband is feeling into words. Fantastic video!

Thanks for calling me a gem! (And for that being a reference at the same time!)

TWoK was my first sanderson book after finishing WoT. It immediately pulled me in and I barely could put it down. I read 900+ pages in 5 days while on a trip with my dad(I bought it at the airport). I can now recognize that some of these things you describe are what pulled me in. There was something about the strange world and all the mysteries. I just really enjoyed wondering what it all meant, what details were significant etc. The most obvious thing to me was the epigraphs at the start of each chapter. They really really intrigued me. I remember just wondering what they meant, and what the relevance to the story might be.

What a great video! Just subscribed and can’t wait to get more content from you. Greta work, my friend!

I had read Mistborn but hadn't planned to read SA because of the length. My brother however was a huge SA fan and had the books, so one evening when I was bored I decided to just crack open WoK. I read through the first prologue twice, was totally confused, and decided to just ride along with the story. Sure enough, everything cleared up and by the end I had a new favorite book. What an amazing series.

I'm near the end of the way of kings and I'm loving it. I started with Mistborn and then read warbreaker before I tackled stormlight

I find that sometimes, the worlds he imagines have no real-world analogue, so I’m forced to work hard in visualizing unique geographical features. The mists from Mistborn are particularly hard for me to visualize. They’re not quite a fog, but rather a seething mass of clouds. The fluidized spore ocean from Tress was wild. And the “Hions” from Yumi literally made me put the book down. I’m going to read it eventually, but probably on a vacation where I can sit and focus.

I really liked the lack of explanation of spren at the start. The alien nature of spren and total lack of explanation made it obvious that I was being asked to figure it out because everyone in the world seemed to consider it commonplace.

You should do more stuff like this. I'll love to watch it.

The Way of Kings had the best ending to a book I’d ever read

I love the slowness of the book. I will probably be a broken record on things like this but I sometimes think I would prefer a travelogue of fantasy worlds than a plot. I enjoy watching characters wandering about the setting and getting to know what is going on so much I sometimes actually get irritated when the plot shows up. Like my favourite bit of The Final Empire is the scenes of Kelsier teaching Vin about Allomancy I recognise I am in the minority in this regard but it was why Way of Kings possibly is my favourite of the Sanderson books.

Roshar having three moons makes up for Mistborn's world (Scadrial) not having any despite having tons of in-jokes about moons (at least in the second series)

I feel that about LotR.

I think the fantasy power armor and giant swords were enough to get me invested in the series, no pun intended. I stayed for the resilient and relatable characters and the truly alien world that they inhabit.

The books are so much easier to read if you just take everything as said. I may not know what a fearspren is at the beginning, but I will remember the name and have faith it will get explained later. I recently finished all the books and pretty much everything is explained, or at least explained enough that you aren’t confused the entire time you are reading

The nearly identical Ghostblood symbol and the Mitsubishi logo next to the word Coincidence? killed me.

Is anticipation an emotion? Well there’s a spren for it😂

One of my favourite parts is "I am unity"

One factor that motivated me to continue reading was the possibility of the author continuing the series (because side note I hate a story getting canceled). While it wasn't the primary reason, it certainly held significant weight in my decision to keep reading.

great video! now i understand why i've put down the book 3 times hahaha. actually it helps to know that everything was deliberate

Was recommended The stormlight archives and was lost for the first 4 hours of the book. Plugging my way through I started to personally relate to Kal struggling. And as I finished I realized everyone was struggling. And it's written in such a way where you believe their struggles are going to cripple them and they are going to lose. You hold on to the hope that they might win. And either way, win or lose your mind is blown by the outcome

Hearing about how Sanderson just kinda pulls the audience into the deep-end with the terms of this world, allowing to see its alieness before an explanation feels very Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. I can't speak for the Way of Kings just yet, but Wolfe keeps this up, so much as even suggesting that the book is an artifact that he's only translating.

I'm trying to get into the sotrmlight archive, and I love the story and the world despite it being my first Sanderson book... but my copy of the Way of Kings is littered with typos and it's really grogging down my reading experience. Is there any way to get an updated hardcover version of the Way of Kings?

I was not confused at all with this book, tho I agree it was above-average at best in terms of complexity. Gardens of the Moon (Malazan#1) or A Game of Thrones (ASOIAF#1) takes the cake for the most complex first book imo.

the LOTR books are a bit slow at first, but once they leave the Shire it starts getting interesting. I would recommend them. (also The Hobbit is faster, shorter, and excellent, so maybe read that first if you haven't already)

It is super complex and hard to follow until really almost half way thru the second part. Lol. I love it too. It's so great. It's phenomenal. I'm on my second time thru the series

I never had a problem with spren -- I immediately thought of the word "sprite", so from the get-go it seemed like this was a world that had fairies, and everyone was so used to them that no one comments on them anymore, they're just something that's there. The sequence with Szeth, on the other hand, made my head spin the very first time I read it, so I can relate there.

I think I would have dropped the Stormlight Archive immediately if I was not already a huge Warhammer fan. There are very few universes with as high a barrier for entry as the 40k lore. Pushing through that to find the wonderful stories and lore was well worth it, I just saw the beginning of Stormlight as a worthy adversary to overcome.

Good video!

Just starting it. Still in the what the heck is going on process.

I found it so easy to read cuz its a damn Page turner. Most epic book ive read yet boutta start words of radiance

I also found it hard to read, but for me it was because of how easily I was sucked out of the book. I love this series, but When I started reading it this year I got it because I heard someone say it was good. I honestly had no idea what I was getting into. However I found that all of the challenge comes with pay offs. The characters all become interesting, even the ones you see once in a blue moon, the fight scenes are very enjoyable, and the world is easy to fall into, surprisingly. I am here now because Its summer, and have had no motivation to read. I’m in the middle of Oathbringer, and don’t know if I should continue.

I'am on the third book at the moment and i love every word of it... Only downside is i'am getting close to the last book so far and ill have to wait for the next one to be published :(

Im almost done with every single Cosmere book that isnt Stormlight... it seems like I will need a major Brandon Sanderson palate cleanser before jumping into Stormlight... cant wait to get into it tho!!! 😁

Great video! If you do want to dip your toes into *slightly* more classic fantasy, I cannot recommend Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams enough. The first book opens slowly, with large amounts of exposition, but rolls very smoothly into one of my personal favorite series of all time.

I actually found it incredibly easy to read once I got into it. I had a hard time getting into it because of all the false starts at the beginning. It felt like 3 different preludes. I had no idea where the story was going and not in a good way. Once you get to the actual start of the story with Kal in the caravan it's all good from there.

In the end I dropped the way of kings not because of the prologue or the strange world. (I have seen stranger in Sci-fi) but because of inconsistent characterization and nonsensical physics. Sandersons stories for me always into "and then things happen". Btw. One of the mysteries I really would like to know: What etymological process transforms "parchmen who can think" into parchendi?

I liked the video just by looking at the title cause I hella agree ! 😂

3/4 of the way through and loving it although ot has been a slow read for me as the action keeps breqking from character to character. I typically read a lot of non-fiction but this has been a fun ride.

I came straight out of the silmarillion before reading this and in comparison wok is is a walk in the park to read

I'm 74 years old and was a not a fantasy reader. Strictly hard sci-fi. Toward the end of 2019 I read _The Way of Kings._ By the end of 2021 I had almost read everything Sanderson has written. Well, the truth is I listened to them; audio books. Looking back I think I didn't like fantasy was because the fantasy books I read didn't make sense. It was like the author was just inventing a new "spell" to fix his plot. With Sanderson, his magic came across to me like it was a different kind of physics. But the biggest reason I read his books is because he makes me care allot for the lead character. Sure the lead character had a hard time but (s)he would work it out satisfactorily. That's what I want in every fiction book I read. *NOTE:* I did read and like Terry Pratchett's _Disk World_ books before I found Sanderson. I liked them so much for the humor and excellent story-telling that the fantasy didn't matter.

Have you read the rest of the other books of stormlight

I read Gardens of the Moon before the Way of Kings so it felt less alien to just be left in a new world filled with wierd stuff and normal people.

Brandon Sanderson - YT I challenged myself to rewrite the opening of *Way of Kings* by Brandon Sanderson as fast as I could. Here it the original opening page, followed by my rewrite, keeping lines I thought were okay, changing others, including aspects of the world building. There are 712 words in my story fragment. It took me four hours, working continuously. 178 words per hour 3 words per minute 20 seconds per word 1,424 words per day *Way of Kings - by Brandon Sanderson* Kalak rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying thunderclast. The enormous stone beast lay on its side, riblike protrusions from its chest broken and cracked. The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red spots on the arrowhead face, as if created by a fire burning deep within the stone. They faded. Even after all these centuries, seeing a thunderclast up close made Kalak shiver. The beast's hand was as long as a man was tall. He'd been killed by hands like those before, and it hadn't been pleasant. Of course, dying rarely was. He rounded the creature, picking his way more carefully across the battlefield. The plain was a place of misshapen rock and stone, natural pillars rising around him, bodies littering the ground. Few plants lived here. The stone ridges and mounds bore numerous scars. Some were shattered, blasted-out sections where Surgebinders had fought. Less frequently, he passed cracked, oddly shaped hollows where thunderclasts had ripped themselves free of the stone to join the fray. Many of the bodies around him were human; many were not. Blood mixed. Red. Orange. Violet. Though none of the bodies around him stirred, an indistinct haze of sounds hung in the air. Moans of pain, cries of grief. They did not seem like the sounds of victory. Smoke curled from the occasional patches of growth or heaps of burning corpses. Even some sections of rock smoldered. The Dustbringers had done their work well. _But I survived,_ Kalak thought, hand to breast as he hastened to the meeting place. _I actually survived this time._ *Way of Kings - by Uncompetative* Few plants lived here, despite the thaw. A crisp azure sky looked down upon jagged black mountains thrown heavenward by the collision of foreign lands in the distant past, intense cold leaving their cliffs unpolished as snowflakes formed instead of rain. Once, all this had been submerged. An ocean teeming with exotic precambrian life. Feeding, breeding, fighting, dying, sinking to form layer upon layer of sedimentation over multiple millennia, only to then be subducted under granite intrusions as the magma flowed from deep fissures in the planet's crust. Folded, compacted, now surprised to find itself looming over the striated grey surface excavated by the long departed glacier, all that was left of its majestic swathe of ice were unremarkable piles of terminal moraine which had been captured beneath it as it inched its way down the incline, the source of the scouring that had made the rock underfoot unusually ribbed. Maybe in time the cycle would begin again, for what had caused the thaw may well be planet-wide, and could cause ice caps to melt, and oceans to rise, but enough to flood this region so weird fish could swim here once again, he did not understand the world well enough to know, yet so desperately wanted to learn. The thaw had uncovered mysteries. Some primordial geological eon they must have roamed, probably having evolved as a consequence of the planet undergoing a sustained bombardment that seeded meteors of composition not yet fully known. Alloys of zirconium and flerovium, germanium and hafnium, titanium and cerium combined with the planet's own lead and iron to forge what had been appropriately dubbed "The Elementals", only to be thought to have been completely wiped out as the bizarre evolutionary experiment it was when the comet which had first seeded organic life had hit, bringing liquid water and oxygen to the planet in large quantities for the first time and causing these creatures to rust, decay and retreat underground where the magma flowed. The warming climate had stolen the continental ice shelf that had buried them for eons, and this season had been the first in which they had been rebirthed from these mountains, witnessed by nomads no one had believed, until they ventured from this wilderness drawn by their keen awareness of magnetism in search of the electricity that they craved. Towns had fallen, reports had been changed, foreign adversaries blamed, by the time news had been relayed from the provinces to the capitol city, their encroachment on society had ceded half of the agricultural lands. Armies had been organised under the banners of Kings to no avail. Kingdoms fell. Refugees fled across the ocean to eke out an existence in distant lands still covered by the protective sheet of ice that had been there eighty thousand years. Walking there, alone on this continent, he rounded the creature at a cautious distance, watching his footing as he picked his way across, the last battlefield. The plain was a place of misshapen rock and stone, natural pillars rising around him, bodies littering the ground. Many of the bodies were human; many were not. Blood mixed. Red. Orange. Violet. He had expected to see smoke rising from heaps of burning corpses, but the armies had been so outclassed that they had lacked the time to observe the ritual of passing. Some sections of rock smouldered where Elementals had sprung from the same rocks from which they were formed, energised by the power of the planet's magnetic core. He rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying Titan. The enormous metal beast lay on its side, as he now saw that its ribs had been burst open from within. The monstrosity was skeletal, an infernal design, a demon borne from the underworld. Seeing a Titan up close made Kalak shiver. The beast's claw was as spindly as a sapling but stronger than a sword. Capable of deft decapitations and mass mutilations with a single gesture. Kalak's curiosity overcame his apprehension. _It is dead,_ Kalak thought to himself - yet his heart was not reassured. _I must determine what force may have felled this foe._ Kalak continued to explore, and found more. Titans exploded from within, or torn apart from without, he did not yet know.

Honestly recently started reading the way of Kings and I almost put the book down after the first prologue part. It was such a dense info dump it just felt ... a bit too much. We immediately are pelted with names, places, gods, concepts, magic etc with literally zero explanation. Sanderson pulled me back in with his battle/fight description in Szeth's part and later Kaladin, which were much better than most other fantasy writers But honestly I also really disliked the whole spren thing. That was another really bothersome thing at the start. Really didn't like the idea of spren. Still don't tbh aside from Kaladins wind spren. On top of that when we first meet Shallan I hated her guts. What an absurdly annoying little cnt.. but then she gets a better after. Idk why but her attitude on the ship towards the sailors really bothered me. I don't even remember eat it was but I remember thinking wow the book is obviously pretending like she's a smart and sweet girl but I hate this person. But that attitude quickly disappeared I wonder if it would have been better if I started with mistborn.

I have to be honest I love The lord of the Rings but it is hard to read. Only the Way of kings is as long as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Roshar is far more complex, large and diverse than The Middle Earth and the Story has a lot more plot lines and characters and even with that I would say that is Sanderson series 10 times easier to read than Tolkien's books (except The Hobbit). I really recomend The lord of the Rings books but the harder part of reading them is getting out of The Shire. (And The Silmarillion, but that is a completely different thing). Yes, The way of kings is certainly harder than Mistborn, Elantris and Warbreaker, that were the books that I read Before getting with the Stormligh Books but if you read some Sanderson's books before grabbing The Way of Kings you will be just fine and being honest I don't think is a hard read, It's actually pretty accesible.

Laughs in Malazan

The thought that a fantasy book that isnt literally just politics and intrigue can be hard to read is so foreign to me. I think the "hard to read" part of most books is just the fact that they're not the type that is most preferred.

It is? Was hard for me to keep reading it, if you mean that possibly.

Spoilers for The Way of Kings ahed! . . . . . In my opinion the first prologue is very interesting because it lets you understand the scope of the calamity that's about to happen. That part of the lore is very obscure in the first book, but with various hints I reconstructed the implications of the Aharietiam and the "last Herald" Talenel'Elin still "imprisoned". So when in the epilogue this guy makes his appearance I was shocked! I remember just thinking "hell no, please don't be him" while re-reading the first prologue. In fact I think that re-reading the prologues is a must, the more you know the more they make sense. [More spoilers for the other books] And it's very cool to see how the prologues in the various books intereacts with each other. Like Szeth seeing Dalinar drunk and asking himself where Jasnah is... (I'm reading Oathbringer now so I still don't have the full picture of the events)

Gardens of the Moon is hard to read, imo.

WoK definitely jumps around a lot, he doesn't spoon fed explanations, and it's easy to miss some details because of it. So I did go back a few times to get some clarity. It's not really hard to read. Sanderson is pretty concise with his writing. Quite frankly, I wish he was a little more descriptive. He was creative in how he painted life on the shattered plains. That was pretty interesting. I got cringy anime vibes though. Seriously, I get it, Kaladin is super tortured. Not a bad character though. Shallan is a horrible suburban tween princes, OMG, why is she even in the book? She's so bad. Szeth is the edgiest of edge lords. Seriously, he had to dismiss his shard blade to fight three other full shard bearers at once because it got in his way. OMG, Shard weapons are already OP AF. Dalan is cool though. Not saying the book is terrible. Just a tad cringy at times. Except Shallan. OMG, she's such an annoying character.

Standardsons 😂

The Way of Kings was an easy book. You should read more books. You want to talk about a difficult to read book...try Steven Erikson. Your brain would melt. Mistborn was written for teens.

I disagree that the Way of Kings is difficult to read. The difficulty comes imo from a persons' expectation that the author will hold their hand and explain everything the moment it is introduced. The prose is simple and the pacing is great. It even has interludes to let the reader breathe a bit. Sanderson has planned out this massive 10 book series and going into it the reader should trust Sanderson that he knows what he is doing and that he is feeding you enough information but keeping the mystery alive, the same way that Sanderson trusts the reader to tag along for the ride. Whats the fun reading about a magical world, if everything is explained right away?

Easy compared to malazan

I'm struggling with it... as soon as i get interested, it changes away to something more boring.

It's not hard.

I quit after 9 hours lf the 45 hour audiobook. It was ridiculously boring, and completely riddled with exotic names of people and places that you dont care about.. its too much.

Hard to read? Psh. I've read harder.

Not gonna spoil anything eh? You just said the first prologue takes place 4500 years prior to the book events.

You lost me at the Hard to read part, Stormlight archive is as simple as fantasy gets, which is not a praise

It was my first Sanderson book. I read it english and it isn't my first language so it was pretty rough in the first chapters. I remember struggling at the start with all the fantasy elements since I didn't know if a word was some in-universe creation or just an english expression I didn't know. So there I went with some translator for chulls or windspren