Also the author takes a shot at how his kid eats food?

Mar 24, 2023
8:41:52am

Baron Sovereign User

That is petty and personal. What does that add to the story except that the write considers himself better than Sanderson and his family.

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Wired magazine article slanders Brandon Sanderson. Calls him boring, bad writer,

Ted Lasso

3/23/23 10:43pm

Amazing. What a great reply. Has he ever considered a career in writing?

Baron

3/23/23 10:50pm

Great rep of the Y and church

HandwovenBox

3/23/23 11:39pm

I liked this guy's video reading the article with his commentary

jaromp

3/23/23 11:46pm

That guy’s review seems fair especially since he’s a liberal.

greatbam

3/24/23 4:39pm

Okay, a couple of thoughts: 1. Even Brandon agrees that his prose is trash. And it is. It's really bad.

jacobugath

3/23/23 11:49pm

I dunno the article was pretty bad imo. I was a journalist and felt everybody

runnincoug

3/24/23 7:24am

I'm going to disagree. Brandon's prose is accidentally genius.

darkcoug

3/24/23 11:29am

I think he is a gifted author and world builder, but the prose is not good. I think your argument is more of a

shimmy

3/24/23 12:55pm

It is a bit of a backhanded compliment, but regardless, I think it is a

darkcoug

3/24/23 1:01pm

I like the stormlight archive. The prose isn't great but the story is good enough to get through it. I couldn't do it on

shimmy

3/24/23 1:20pm

It felt like a hit piece. Not because of his bits insulting Sanderson's prose/writing, but other stuff.

OPINIONS

3/24/23 2:10pm

Yeah, it was aggressively negative in a personal way. That's not just commentary

The Dark Knight

3/24/23 2:14pm

And so how cool is it to see Brandon giving a master class on applying the Sermon on the Mount

BYUtiful

3/24/23 2:27pm

It's not really slander if it is an opinion.

Thrill

3/24/23 12:06am

Tl;dr

John Doe

3/24/23 1:11am

Wired didn't just insult Sanderson's writing

nova_coug_fan

3/24/23 4:22am

There was clearly an anti lds bent

runnincoug

3/24/23 7:25am

I didn't get that at all.

jacobugath

3/24/23 7:31am

He did call him a "weirdo Mormon"

El Jefe

3/24/23 7:53am

And apparently couldn't take the time to learn the name of the church.

Ted Lasso

3/24/23 7:56am

Well, Mormons are a little weird. And Brandon Sanderson is a little weird. Have you ever met him?

jacobugath

3/24/23 7:57am

Name calling is what you are defending? Saying someone is weird and calling them a weirdo are different.

Baron

3/24/23 7:59am

All I'm saying is I didn't get that from the article. I think he found Brandon to be a boring person and there's nothing

jacobugath

3/24/23 8:09am

So saying his religion is weird isn't an "anti-LDS bent"?

El Jefe

3/24/23 8:13am

I'm a fully active member, and I can say our religion is a little weird. Is that really so surprising?

jacobugath

3/24/23 8:16am

The article does not contain a single smidgen of substance. It is a rambling, lazy, shockingly pretentious personal

jaromp

3/24/23 10:31am

WOuld you be bothered if your kids call someone a weirdo?

Baron

3/24/23 8:17am

Also the author takes a shot at how his kid eats food?

Baron

3/24/23 8:41am

"Oh, and here's some private info that Brandon is sensitive about and asked me not to print, but since I don't like him

jaromp

3/24/23 8:25am

I bet his favorite author is Mistborn

byuTX

3/24/23 1:44pm

Seems like you read the article about as closely as he read Brandon's books, lol

jaromp

3/24/23 8:21am

I've read it twice. And the author said he read almost 20 of Sanderson's books. And Sanderson agreed with his assessment

jacobugath

3/24/23 8:24am

Almost all the commentary about his books was blatantly wrong. It sounds like he skimmed mistborn and called it a day

jaromp

3/24/23 8:27am

Why do you think he leads an insulated life?

No touching

3/24/23 9:10am

Obviously because of the Wired article.

jacobugath

3/24/23 9:15am

I started to agree with you within the first few paragraphs

MetaLearner

3/24/23 10:38am

He called LDS religion the fantasy of religions. Clearly dismissive.

runnincoug

3/24/23 8:27am

Exactly. I don't see how anyone could miss the anti-LDS vibe.

VisionCoug

3/24/23 9:19am

The world of writers is a strange world. Many writers have a deep resentment for those who have 'made it'

jpesk2

3/24/23 9:46am

I thought that too. He seemed jealous.

runnincoug

3/24/23 9:59am

This explains a lot of journalists and academics

MetaLearner

3/24/23 10:15am

The top comment on that thread explains it well:

MetaLearner

3/24/23 10:40am

Whenever I hear Wired magazine I think of this scene

-C9-

3/24/23 12:25pm

Coastal Elitism

BYU03OSU06

3/24/23 1:19pm

Just read it “On the weird article” and it works just as well.

greatbam

3/25/23 7:36pm

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