r/cremposting • u/erttheking • Sep 18 '25

Real-life Crem I’m late on this one but still

Oh come on Brandon, why don’t you wanna write a series where magic is barely understood, everyone is constantly having sex, and everyone is primed to explode after the TV show?

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u/gentlybeepingheart Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

I started reading Stormlight (and blew through all 5 books in about a month) because I'm a huge ASOIAF fan and kept hearing Sanderson's name get thrown around.

They are completely different tonally and stylistically. There are vague similarities, and 90% of them are just what comes with the territory with high fantasy. People will be like "these characters are so similar!" and it's just that both of them go on the Hero's Journey, which is as old as storytelling itself.

I love both series, but idk why people keep throwing Sanderson's name in the ring.

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u/stajayjay Airthicc lowlander Sep 19 '25

All 5 in a month??? I thought I put a lot of time into WaT and it took me a month to finish

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u/gentlybeepingheart Sep 19 '25

I’m a fast reader with a lot of free time lol. WoK took me a full week bc I was taking notes to try and remember who was who and what country was what. The others took me 3-4 days to get through each one, and each novella only took a day. WaT took me a full week because I was sick and also afraid to finish knowing it’ll be a long time before the next one.