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Finished up Elantris. Kind of a slow start but git really interesting the deeper I got. Overall really enjoyed it. Starting Mistborn now. Have heard good things about it.
 
So I have been reading all of his work. I Have now finished Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, Mistborn era 1, and now reading era 2 Mistborn. His books are now a must read for me
 
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TURBO said:
So I have been reading all of his work. I Have now finished Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, Mistborn era 1, and now reading era 2 Mistborn. His books are now a must read for me
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I would recommend The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan when you're ready for a change of pace. It's another interesting magic system, and McClellan was a student in a Creative Writing class taught by Sanderson.
 
If you are interested in American cultural history in the least, this book is an absolute must to read. 200 pages and very readable. Gordon is a self-admitted liberal, but she just presents the facts here in outlining a thread of American political thought that has been around pretty much since the nation's inception. It's important to point out that the reborn Klan of the 1920s was largely a Northern phenomenon.

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Just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch. Really good. Next up is either Where the Crawdads Sing or Magic for Liars.
 
Dalyn said:
Sanderson became so much better after working with Harriet. A lot of his flaws were ironed out, and I like him a lot more now. He's good.
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I didn't know that. I can absolutely tell a difference between books like Elantris and Stormlight. Stormlight is incredibly polished and the structure is really, really good. I knew he had grown as an author but didn't know how.
 
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I didn't know that. I can absolutely tell a difference between books like Elantris and Stormlight. Stormlight is incredibly polished and the structure is really, really good. I knew he had grown as an author but didn't know how.
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Harriet spent much of Jordan's career as his editor. I think she deserves so much more credit than she gets. The situation with Sanderson proved that, in my opinion.
 
My favorite books are The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. Especially the third novel, Mountolive. Here are two reviews written about 50 years after its publication that capture its essence.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/24/alexandria-quartet-lawrence-durrell-rereading

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...dria-quartet-by-lawrence-durrell-8485449.html

I recently found Durrell talking about Durrell on youtube, which will give you a sense of the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZTajhgR82M

Next favorite is Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick. The TV series based on it is not bad. But the book itself is something that I find always rewards re-reading.
 
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Dalyn said:
Harriet spent much of Jordan's career as his editor. I think she deserves so much more credit than she gets. The situation with Sanderson proved that, in my opinion.
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I agree with you that she seems to have helped Sanderson improve. That makes me even more curious what happened in the last few books that Jordan wrote. He went far off the rails somewhere book 6 or 7.
 
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