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    12 days ago

    If you like fantasy and haven’t read any Brandon Sanderson then do yourself a favour and get on it!

    My personally favourites are the Mistborn books but it isn’t exactly an easy choice because literally everything he writes is great in my experience.

    I just finished Tress of the Emerald Sea which is a shorter standalone book but still great!

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      10 days ago

      I completed the Wheel of Time last year and liked the Sanderson style of the latter books and am now on book 3 of Stormlight Archive and love it so far. It took me a good half the first book to “get it” or “get into it” rather, but now I see the vision and am enjoying it all. Planning on the other Cosmere series and books after.

      Sanderson is definitely one of the better sci-fi/fantasy writers I’ve read.

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        10 days ago

        Wheel of Time is on my to do list, I’ve heard a lot about it both being great and hard to get into to begin with and so I keep putting it off. I will get around to it at some point.

        Enjoy your journey into Sanderson, I’m a little jealous I can’t go on those journeys again for the first time!

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          10 days ago

          If it helps, read the first one and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to finish it or the series. It stands alone decently well. I know that’s obvious, but I often don’t do things because I feel like starting something mean I have to finish it. Books, games, movies, etc

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            10 days ago

            Haha I appreciate the advice and I used to be the same feeling I had to finish things I started but as I have got older I do drop games and books etc if I am really not enjoying them and it has made things a lot more enjoyable.

            It is more because I am currently into the Deathlands series of books. It is currently 155 books long and I’m at 89, whilst I do have a break from it here and there to listen to other books I don’t want to start another series of books just now :D