Entry tags:
Epic fantasy noir western with religious undertones.
Which is to say, I stayed up until 5 AM last night reading Brandon Sanderson's The Alloy of Law, and the hour I stayed up till reading it should indicate how compulsively good it was. Right now I:
a) really want to play the Mistborn RPG
& b) want to find someone else who's been compulsively reading Sanderson the way I have so I can discuss him. He's a fascinating author. I especially want to discuss the way he handles gender -- his female perspective characters tend to be relationship focused, but so are his male perspective characters -- minor characters show a much broader variety of type. I suspect it's more of a universal emphasis on teh importance of family, possibly influenced by his Mormonism, than it is any inherent chauvinism, given that his men and women seem equally focused that way.
a) really want to play the Mistborn RPG
& b) want to find someone else who's been compulsively reading Sanderson the way I have so I can discuss him. He's a fascinating author. I especially want to discuss the way he handles gender -- his female perspective characters tend to be relationship focused, but so are his male perspective characters -- minor characters show a much broader variety of type. I suspect it's more of a universal emphasis on teh importance of family, possibly influenced by his Mormonism, than it is any inherent chauvinism, given that his men and women seem equally focused that way.