Hey Brian. I just stumbled upon your channel by accident, but I’ve been hearing about The Forgetting Moon a lot, specifically from Mike’s books reviews. Words of Radiance is one of my favorite books of all time and after your review, I think you get it. I don’t know exactly what your book is about, but it sounds amazing. And now, it’s at the TOP of my TBR. I can’t wait to get to it! P.s. thank you for helping prisoners get new books to read. People like you change lives for the better.
Thanks for another great video! That's a great story about the prison library, and I think it's fantastic that you teach creative writing, which can be therapeutic for anyone to engage in. I agree with you that Sanderson's Stormlight Archive is more accessible than Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, though I'm a fan of both series. Personally, I like the interludes in the Stormlight Archive books, though I can see how some people might find them a distraction. I also agree with you about the fantastic art!
Actually, names in the Stormlight archives kinda make sense. The Alethi lighteyes’ names are almost symmetrical but not quite. This is kind of a motif of theirs I guess, even their script and glyphs are symmetrical. Amaram, Ialai, Kaladin, Navani, etc. Each syllable of the names also means something so the name is kind of more of a description. The darkeyes’ names are a lot simpler and don’t sound remotely symmetrical. Also, it was the Thaylens I believe, that had names with practically no vowels in them, ex: Rysn, babsk. It’s still kind of weird that there aren’t any examples of two people with the same name, even if there are throwaway lines about characters being the only ones with that name.
I actually started thinking about the naming conventions after I posted the video, realizing that the story takes place on an entirely made up planet so the names really do work better for me now
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS well aren't almost all fantasy books on a completely different world? Westeros is not on "earth", neither is Tad Williams' world presumably. Yet they all use names like John Presbyter and Jon Snow, etc. I think it's just a choice authors make and GRRM and others wanted a very earth-like world. Whereas Sanderson's world is meant to be extremely alien where none of the races are even really human, nor do they have many of the same flora/fauna as earth, whereas in GRRM's world the only different animal is a dragon, here they have everything from chasmfiends to axehounds etc etc
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS It's not brought up a whole lot, but in the Vorin religion, palindromic names are considered holy, and the Heralds themselves have perfectly (or very nearly perfectly) palindromic names. Therefore, since lighteyes are noble without being actually divine, they are given ALMOST palindromic names, so they seem like the Heralds without usurping them.
I love what you said about the naming conventions! That's a pet peeve of mine, too. I like names to be pronounceable and close to something from our world.
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Hey Brian. I just stumbled upon your channel by accident, but I’ve been hearing about The Forgetting Moon a lot, specifically from Mike’s books reviews. Words of Radiance is one of my favorite books of all time and after your review, I think you get it. I don’t know exactly what your book is about, but it sounds amazing. And now, it’s at the TOP of my TBR. I can’t wait to get to it!
P.s. thank you for helping prisoners get new books to read. People like you change lives for the better.
Thanks for another great video! That's a great story about the prison library, and I think it's fantastic that you teach creative writing, which can be therapeutic for anyone to engage in. I agree with you that Sanderson's Stormlight Archive is more accessible than Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, though I'm a fan of both series. Personally, I like the interludes in the Stormlight Archive books, though I can see how some people might find them a distraction. I also agree with you about the fantastic art!
another great book by sanderson
Actually, names in the Stormlight archives kinda make sense. The Alethi lighteyes’ names are almost symmetrical but not quite. This is kind of a motif of theirs I guess, even their script and glyphs are symmetrical. Amaram, Ialai, Kaladin, Navani, etc. Each syllable of the names also means something so the name is kind of more of a description. The darkeyes’ names are a lot simpler and don’t sound remotely symmetrical. Also, it was the Thaylens I believe, that had names with practically no vowels in them, ex: Rysn, babsk. It’s still kind of weird that there aren’t any examples of two people with the same name, even if there are throwaway lines about characters being the only ones with that name.
I actually started thinking about the naming conventions after I posted the video, realizing that the story takes place on an entirely made up planet so the names really do work better for me now
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS well aren't almost all fantasy books on a completely different world? Westeros is not on "earth", neither is Tad Williams' world presumably. Yet they all use names like John Presbyter and Jon Snow, etc. I think it's just a choice authors make and GRRM and others wanted a very earth-like world. Whereas Sanderson's world is meant to be extremely alien where none of the races are even really human, nor do they have many of the same flora/fauna as earth, whereas in GRRM's world the only different animal is a dragon, here they have everything from chasmfiends to axehounds etc etc
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS It's not brought up a whole lot, but in the Vorin religion, palindromic names are considered holy, and the Heralds themselves have perfectly (or very nearly perfectly) palindromic names. Therefore, since lighteyes are noble without being actually divine, they are given ALMOST palindromic names, so they seem like the Heralds without usurping them.
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I love wordy books too!!!
no to editor slaughtering books splitting it into two smaller books i cound understand though
I really appreciate your thoughts on some of my favorite books as an author yourself! Do you still plan on also reviewing Oathbringer or the novella?
Oathbringer review will be coming around October. I want to read it again before leaving a review
I love what you said about the naming conventions! That's a pet peeve of mine, too. I like names to be pronounceable and close to something from our world.
This is where I dnf Brandon Sanderson. I tried.