This book could have been good. The fact that everyone has nostalgia for someone else’s nostalgia simply because he was rich as fuck and therefore has enormous social influence and could use his wealth and influence to create an economic incentive to obsess over the things he obsessed with from his youth. That could have made for good social commentary. But he fucked it up.
It's the literary equivalent of an anime where you read a description, go "huh, cool premise", and then give up after the pilot because the coolest premise in the world couldn't justify the trash characters and chronic dependency on tropes.
Except I made the mistake of thinking the book must be building to something interesting, and read it all the way through.
That's never portrayed as a good thing in the story though.
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Honestly all the main characters over-react to the big revelation in my opinion. I found it hard to swallow, the idea that people living in a feudal/renaissance era society would feel guilty about their ancestors winning a war thousands of years ago, taking the land of the conquered, and then enslaving them. Those events were common historically and people usually wrote epic poems about how great their ancestors were for doing that. The human societies don't seem to have a reason for their morality to be so modern.
This book could have been good. The fact that everyone has nostalgia for someone else’s nostalgia simply because he was rich as fuck and therefore has enormous social influence and could use his wealth and influence to create an economic incentive to obsess over the things he obsessed with from his youth. That could have made for good social commentary. But he fucked it up.
It's the literary equivalent of an anime where you read a description, go "huh, cool premise", and then give up after the pilot because the coolest premise in the world couldn't justify the trash characters and chronic dependency on tropes.
Except I made the mistake of thinking the book must be building to something interesting, and read it all the way through.
This is the curse that all fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy books must suffer through.
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Oh, I haven't really seen a proper critique of Sanderson's works. Why do you think he/his books suck?
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I’ve only read SA till book 2 but I’m assuming you’re speaking of the
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Parshendi?
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That's never portrayed as a good thing in the story though.
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Honestly all the main characters over-react to the big revelation in my opinion. I found it hard to swallow, the idea that people living in a feudal/renaissance era society would feel guilty about their ancestors winning a war thousands of years ago, taking the land of the conquered, and then enslaving them. Those events were common historically and people usually wrote epic poems about how great their ancestors were for doing that. The human societies don't seem to have a reason for their morality to be so modern.