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Awesome, included in description:
3:21 - Honorable Mentions
8:00 - Piranesi
9:15 - Murderbot
10:15 - Book of the New Sun
11:25 - Tigana
13:16 - Elric Saga
14:58 - Earthsea
17:06 - Discworld
18:39 - First Law
21:43 - Stormlight Archive
24:29 - Wheel of Time
Why is this an entire video?
To make money?
Looking at the other videos on the channel, it seems to be the prefered method of the person talking.
Looking at the About section:
Subscribe for fantasy reviews, lore, and theory videos! Ta’veren | Cosmere Enthusiast | Worldbuilding Connoisseur
I mean the 200k views explains literally why, money, but I was being rhetorical, making a statement with a question.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out!
No Malazan? Seems incorrect.
Which book would you replace it with?
Or make it top 11 books?
Esrthsea or Stormlight. Sanderson is an absolutely fun author but he’s not a particularly good writer. Earthsea (at least the first 2) are classics but as far as I recall, don’t have the depth etc that would really elevate them
Especially as this list seems to appreciate series, that’s where Malazan really shines.
I also haven’t read piranesi, murderbot, Tigana or Elric so can’t say where they go.
Replace stormlight. Le Guin is a far better writer than Sanderson. Personally I feel the later books in the earthsea series are really good, Tehanu being my favourite.
Sanderson is the most overrated author of our time. Far too many people confuse volume with quality.
I really don’t understand why he’s so popular. The ideas are interesting but the delivery is bland, the characters are both formulaic and repetitive across the books, and the plot is always resolved at the last minute by some sort of deus ex machina development that blindsides everybody.
I also don’t get it. I find his writing style to be boring, and feel undeveloped, especially since I started as a child reading the classics. Maybe if he was my intro to books I’d feel differently. Same situation with JK Rowling as well, I just don’t get what everyone sees in her books compared to other fantasy novels.
I think he’s like the Marvel movies of fantasy books and popular for the same reasons; they’re easy, fun and have solid albeit mostly unspectacular action sequences.
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I’m a huge Martha Wells fan but I actually find Murderbot to be one of her weaker series. Granted I only read the first two, but I just couldn’t get into it and enjoy it like I have with her other works
The first one was fun, but it gets a wee bit repetitive.
I’ll have to take a look at her other books. She’s definitely a good writer.
