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Mistborn (Sanderson)
Oct. 4th, 2011 08:00 pm(3+/5) Um. So. I thought I was done with epic fantasy. But, you know, there's the Wheel of Time, which I am physically incapable of reading more than a quarter of a book of without dropping it in sheer and utter boredom, but which I have vaguely fond memories of, in that sort of "oh, yeah, I used to read that" sort of way. So I've been keeping up with WOT news, even though I don't think I'll ever even try to read a book again. (I even got bored with the tor.com recaps! Although Adam Robert's reviews are wildly funny to me, and you should check them out even if you hate WOT. Actually, you should check them out in particular if you hate WOT.) It's sort of like... that ex who it turns out was really boring and whom you would be happy to never see again, but you don't mind looking him up on Facebook every five years or so to see how he's doing. Like that.
Anyway. So along those lines, I was listening to this Sanderson podcast on how he got to be writing the last WOT books, because I find that interesting even if WOT itself is dead boring, and Sanderson happened to mention the McGuffin of Mistborn, and I thought, hm, that sounds kind of interesting. And around the same time ferretbrain.com reviewed it approvingly. So I picked it up.
And... I liked it! It's, you know, epic fantasy. It's like Robert Jordan, only more streamlined (by which I mean three fat books instead of twelve or however many it is fat books) and with fewer really really annoying cat-fighting female characters (although the first one at least has only two female characters out of n-where-n-is-a-large-number, and they do cat-fight). But sometimes one is just in the mood for a competent epic fantasy that is a fast read but not horribly annoying. And this one fits.
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I do sort of wish I hadn't known the McGuffin before reading it, but then again I wouldn't have read it otherwise, so there you go.
That being said, I'm currently bouncing hard off the second one -- it's not recognizably worse than the first, just that currently I apparently have a tolerance for epic fantasy of no more than one book, and also maybe that I'm out of my epic-fantasy mood from last month.
Anyway. So along those lines, I was listening to this Sanderson podcast on how he got to be writing the last WOT books, because I find that interesting even if WOT itself is dead boring, and Sanderson happened to mention the McGuffin of Mistborn, and I thought, hm, that sounds kind of interesting. And around the same time ferretbrain.com reviewed it approvingly. So I picked it up.
And... I liked it! It's, you know, epic fantasy. It's like Robert Jordan, only more streamlined (by which I mean three fat books instead of twelve or however many it is fat books) and with fewer really really annoying cat-fighting female characters (although the first one at least has only two female characters out of n-where-n-is-a-large-number, and they do cat-fight). But sometimes one is just in the mood for a competent epic fantasy that is a fast read but not horribly annoying. And this one fits.
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I do sort of wish I hadn't known the McGuffin before reading it, but then again I wouldn't have read it otherwise, so there you go.
That being said, I'm currently bouncing hard off the second one -- it's not recognizably worse than the first, just that currently I apparently have a tolerance for epic fantasy of no more than one book, and also maybe that I'm out of my epic-fantasy mood from last month.
