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Putting on hold, I like it enough it’s just a lot of silliness and cleverness and I’m in the mood for something more grounded and dumb action-y

lot of stuff in here thats like man if i was 14 this sure would be clever and profound

I feel like abercrombie borders on and toys with satire without ever going all the way. Can’t tell how seriously I’m supposed to take logen

*****'s gonna fucking die isn't she

she's so good at this what the fuck

it's about that time

i take back what i said, hobb might be goated. S tier levels of era-research

Man oh man if you thought overwritten fantasy prose was an exclusively male endeavor robin hobb is here to prove you wrong

i gotta read something else man

one fun thing about having grown up in a time when fantasy has existed long enough to become a postmodern version of itself is that reading the Old Shit feels novel. jordan unflinchingly embraces "yeah these guys are ALL chosen ones. they didn't earn it off of merit even a little bit" and it's bizarrely refreshing

this is, i think, the proper test. sanderson fails at this everytime spectacularly it's the stupidest part of his worldbuilding. believably reconcile your young upstart protagonist with a leadership role in a new revolutionary government. what happens to aragorn after (from a close POV!)

never gonna finish this reading challenge if my dumbass doesnt stop picking up gargantuan fucking fantasy tomes to read

it's so funny how much legolas and gimli do not need to be here. aragorn is the king, gandalf is gandalf, even merry and pippin roused the ents and became little companions to sovereign rulers. if legolas and gimli werent there it would make zero difference im crying

umar, having not yet read the description of the dunlendings: "yeah tolkien is better than cs lewis, his books are nowhere near as racist"

Mental illness

yeah he's the goat like

“Oh man these thousand year old ruins sure do remind me of cair paravel ” cs Lewis I am inside your walls

ok because this gets paired with lord of the rings so often and because I haven’t read this series since I was 8 I did not realize that this is very much a book written for little baby children

let's go girls!

Really fun minor detail I don’t think I’ve ever noticed - Bilbo mentions Gandalf as having *already* taken several young hobbits on adventures prior to bilbos own

insanely racist beliefs be damned, that boy can write

stinker ass wannabe profound dialogue like this that makes you go “oh brother” whenever you read a Sanderson book

"Can you not be both a man who follows his conscience and a good king, then?" "You ask an age-old question, A question that monarchs, priests, and humble men of destiny have always asked. I do not know that there is an answer."

criticism I have of Sanderson is that his writing is excessively didactic and in a way that thinly veil his religious influences. unfortunately this also in fact makes him the perfect inheritor to Tolkien/Lewis

this is the perfect umar book

This is in fact every bit as good as I remember (maybe better) sorry kabir

Love when historians know how to write