Hey, a mistborn fan here! I found your opinion interesting and let's say you're a manace to read the books while hating the story. I found this series as a diamond because of the dark atmosphere and logical magic system. Harry Potter and any other fantasy is just silly that you make up some spell that is overpowered and never defined where is the limit. I found the ideas almost perceftly polished like the need for obligators and the horrifying inquisitors. A haven't watched the full video just the first book part because it's far better then the next two and I 've heard every point of yours. I loved Kelsier because he was everything that nobody had in the time: hope, strength, laughter, trust, confidence and the glimpse of a better word what his wife told him. He was selfish and arrogant but these are traits of a great rebellion too. Not a good person, insane person but a great character. Vin was written really well. I'm a man and you are too and Brandon is too so who we are to tell what a teenage girl feel in such bad times as those. What I found dumb is the mission of terrismen's. Sazed was great but what do you expect from the past in dark times. They should've get away from sight and protect their kind. Anyways the point of the book was to show that the greatest people have doubts too what more they have the biggest doubts. And this is what you don't get from movies and Hollywood shows. Doubt is important and natural. Thanks for reading my comment!
I usually read sci fi (Hyperion, Dune, Children of Time, The Reality Dysfunction, Remembrance of Earth’s Past, and classics from Arthur C Clark, Asimov etc). One day, 2 years ago I made a decision to diversify myself a bit into fantasy and started with Mistborn. I thought it was a very easy read compared to what I read usually, which I found very refreshing. And I loved the story, it was fantastic. It was an eye opener to fantasy for me. Now 2 years later I finished the Mistborn Trilogy, I am half way the Wheel of Time, half way the Stormlight Archive, half way the Farseer trilogy and half way the The Bloodsworn Saga. Now fantasy has taken up half of my reading time :-)
This was a cathartic video for me. I have a friend who's read a couple books on my recommendation, so I repaid the favor by reading these. What a waste. The writing was so shallow, the characters so insufferable, and the wasted potential unforgivable. There was a chance we'd get in to this world being like Black Sun, real fantasy post-apoc. We could have done low-level stories instead of it being another 'my Mary-Sue saves the world' story. I even gave the second book a shot, hoping it wouldn't be about Vin, that maybe she'd be a background character at best so we could move on... But no.
Mistborn is fine. Just a bit young-adult fantasy tho. Has good moments. First was good. Second probably ok. Third was a bit too much but closed the story well I suppose.
lol, I did the same thing with Storm Light Archive. I like Brandon as a person and business owner. So, I don’t mind giving him some money for books I was hoping to enjoy. Also, what’s up with the random homophobic statements??? Weird.
watching further, it’s good to know that a majority of my complaints about Storm Light are also applicable to Mist born. Glad to know I shouldn’t touch anything else this man makes.
I read the first book, and thought it was good. Dragged in the middle, but I liked it. A few years ago Sanderson put out a YT video about the ongoing Mistborn screen adaptation. And he goes on and on about how, "sure I had a female main character but that was it, and that in itself is a harmful stereotype. Now I have these beta readers who are helping to correct that, and help me do better, and not think bad thoughts etc..." It was like a hostage video. It was pathetic. BTW I love your outro clip, it cracks me up every time.
I genuinely don’t understand “they are very long books” The first mistborn is about 20 pages longer than twice the sorcerers stone. The sorcerers stone is a children’s book. I don’t understand how a little bit longer than double a children’s book is some how a very long book. Brandon’s storm light archive books are big books, the wheel of time books are big books, a song of ice and fire books are big books. The mistborn books are books an adult could finish in a weekend they had free. What do you consider a normal sized book?
Hats off to you for making it through the whole trilogy; this really sounds like garbage. People are really eager to recommend Sanderson to you when they find out that you enjoy fantasy at least somewhat. But I could just never bring myself to care because all the claptrap about the greatness of his "magic systems" is just not my flavor of autism, and a glance at his writing revealed it as way too dull for me to trudge trough hundreds of pages of it.
@@someobserver844 Nobody cares about your contrarian opinion, merely that you feel the need to comment like you're enlightened and superior to other people because you think the books they like are shit. There was zero substance or critique to what you said. Quit being a vapid dick and let people have their fun 🙄
Hey, a mistborn fan here! I found your opinion interesting and let's say you're a manace to read the books while hating the story.
I found this series as a diamond because of the dark atmosphere and logical magic system. Harry Potter and any other fantasy is just silly that you make up some spell that is overpowered and never defined where is the limit.
I found the ideas almost perceftly polished like the need for obligators and the horrifying inquisitors.
A haven't watched the full video just the first book part because it's far better then the next two and I 've heard every point of yours.
I loved Kelsier because he was everything that nobody had in the time: hope, strength, laughter, trust, confidence and the glimpse of a better word what his wife told him.
He was selfish and arrogant but these are traits of a great rebellion too. Not a good person, insane person but a great character.
Vin was written really well. I'm a man and you are too and Brandon is too so who we are to tell what a teenage girl feel in such bad times as those.
What I found dumb is the mission of terrismen's. Sazed was great but what do you expect from the past in dark times. They should've get away from sight and protect their kind.
Anyways the point of the book was to show that the greatest people have doubts too what more they have the biggest doubts. And this is what you don't get from movies and Hollywood shows. Doubt is important and natural.
Thanks for reading my comment!
I also find it annoying that word counts are hard to find. Page counts vary, sometimes wildly, depending on the format. Word counts are exact.
I usually read sci fi (Hyperion, Dune, Children of Time, The Reality Dysfunction, Remembrance of Earth’s Past, and classics from Arthur C Clark, Asimov etc). One day, 2 years ago I made a decision to diversify myself a bit into fantasy and started with Mistborn. I thought it was a very easy read compared to what I read usually, which I found very refreshing. And I loved the story, it was fantastic. It was an eye opener to fantasy for me. Now 2 years later I finished the Mistborn Trilogy, I am half way the Wheel of Time, half way the Stormlight Archive, half way the Farseer trilogy and half way the The Bloodsworn Saga. Now fantasy has taken up half of my reading time :-)
This was a cathartic video for me. I have a friend who's read a couple books on my recommendation, so I repaid the favor by reading these. What a waste. The writing was so shallow, the characters so insufferable, and the wasted potential unforgivable. There was a chance we'd get in to this world being like Black Sun, real fantasy post-apoc. We could have done low-level stories instead of it being another 'my Mary-Sue saves the world' story. I even gave the second book a shot, hoping it wouldn't be about Vin, that maybe she'd be a background character at best so we could move on... But no.
Mistborn is fine. Just a bit young-adult fantasy tho. Has good moments. First was good. Second probably ok. Third was a bit too much but closed the story well I suppose.
Got to agree with you here. Not my thing. I tried to read the first one and was bored to tears. Such a slog. I DNF’d about halfway.
lol, I did the same thing with Storm Light Archive. I like Brandon as a person and business owner. So, I don’t mind giving him some money for books I was hoping to enjoy. Also, what’s up with the random homophobic statements??? Weird.
watching further, it’s good to know that a majority of my complaints about Storm Light are also applicable to Mist born. Glad to know I shouldn’t touch anything else this man makes.
You should read The Wheel of Time. Sounds like it's exactly what you would love
Stopped reading the first book a couple hundred pages in.
A series where you just shit on books is kinda lame.
I can agree that it's worse to just put out hate reviews, but I do mostly review indie books.
I read the first book, and thought it was good. Dragged in the middle, but I liked it. A few years ago Sanderson put out a YT video about the ongoing Mistborn screen adaptation. And he goes on and on about how, "sure I had a female main character but that was it, and that in itself is a harmful stereotype. Now I have these beta readers who are helping to correct that, and help me do better, and not think bad thoughts etc..." It was like a hostage video. It was pathetic. BTW I love your outro clip, it cracks me up every time.
I genuinely don’t understand “they are very long books”
The first mistborn is about 20 pages longer than twice the sorcerers stone.
The sorcerers stone is a children’s book. I don’t understand how a little bit longer than double a children’s book is some how a very long book.
Brandon’s storm light archive books are big books, the wheel of time books are big books, a song of ice and fire books are big books.
The mistborn books are books an adult could finish in a weekend they had free.
What do you consider a normal sized book?
Hats off to you for making it through the whole trilogy; this really sounds like garbage.
People are really eager to recommend Sanderson to you when they find out that you enjoy fantasy at least somewhat. But I could just never bring myself to care because all the claptrap about the greatness of his "magic systems" is just not my flavor of autism, and a glance at his writing revealed it as way too dull for me to trudge trough hundreds of pages of it.
Imagine deciding that you hate something without trying it just because others say it's good. So contrarian of you
@@MrImportantGuy Cry me a river. I'm afraid you care more about my opinion being "contrarian" than I do.
@@someobserver844 Nobody cares about your contrarian opinion, merely that you feel the need to comment like you're enlightened and superior to other people because you think the books they like are shit. There was zero substance or critique to what you said. Quit being a vapid dick and let people have their fun 🙄