I’m not a big YouTube guy, but this is interesting, and I know a lot of people in here are reading/looking forward to reading Wind and Truth. Her end result is some beautiful (obviously impractical) books that make the regular giant hardcovers look like little baby books.
If you ignore the handful of YouTube-isms it’s a pretty cool video.
edit: adding screenshot of the books compared to the regular ones.
I thought each book was better than the last. I like the length, because almost every scene is at least one meaningful character being developed, and there are very few scenes I would cut if given the chance. After finishing (as an audiobook), I pretty much immediately started Way of Kings over as a physical read to see what extra details I can pick up knowing where the first half finishes.
Mistborn is significantly shorter, but I felt more (not awful, but there) slog in The Well of Ascension than I did anywhere in Stormlight. I thought he was stuck moving from the Final Empire into a trilogy for a bit.
Everyone is going to experience things differently, so I can’t say if you’ll be as hooked on Stormlight as I was. I’d say there are probably close to double digit characters as fleshed out as Vin (with very different struggles and very different emotional paths) by the end of the first arc, though. That’s what really captures me more than the big picture arc (though that’s also spectacular).
World building and character development will always draw me in. And Sanderson is a good writer. I wonder if audiobooks are something I should try. Now that I’m forced to commute for work again, it might be fun to give it a try.
Micheal Kramer and Kate Reading do an excellent job for most Sanderson stuff. I’m not super picky about quality of narration (outside of “full cast” and “sound effects” being a dealbreaker), but there are some who do a particularly good job and enhance the experience, and those two are really good.
You know, when you say sound effects, I now remember listening to a few Star wars books perhaps 15 years ago that included sound effects. In that case, I actually kind of liked it. It had a radio drama quality to it. Kind of fun actually.