I don’t get why A Song of Ice and Fire series is considered high

Jan 2, 2025
8:35:47pm

Charles Darwin Truly Addicted User

Level fantasy. The magic system is never explained it just sort of happens. Weirdly sexualizes siblings and young characters.

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Some friends are doing a book club and they selected Mistborn as the first reading.

Supercoug [censored]

Jan 2, 8:22pm

The books build on each other. Some fun twists you don’t see coming until the

Boring

Jan 2, 8:27pm

I will never read it more than once. It's just not good enough.

Supercoug

Jan 2, 8:29pm

If you are super into world building and magic systems BS is great. Prose, humor, story, not so much. I’m glad he

shimmy

Jan 2, 8:29pm

I'm a fan of him more than I am a fan of these books, for sure.

Supercoug

Jan 2, 8:30pm

I like Sanderson but Mistborn isn't my favorite series he's written. Better ? ..

justAnotherCoug

Jan 2, 8:32pm

I mostly read boring military history books and narrative nonfiction, but out of fiction I enjoy

Supercoug

Jan 2, 8:35pm

I don’t get why A Song of Ice and Fire series is considered high

Charles Darwin

Jan 2, 8:35pm

I don't either, just thought it was much more engaging and well-written.

Supercoug

Jan 2, 8:39pm

Sanderson’s magic systems have such well-defined rules, his books are practically sci-fi.

TwinsRight

Jan 2, 8:52pm

That’s a weird book club. How about something adults should read? And I mean

pink22

Jan 2, 9:39pm

Read the whole series on the advice of my kids. Upon finishing, depression ended

eyes4byu

Jan 2, 10:36pm

Only book series that ever affected me that way. Could have been thinking factor

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