Cosmere (Brandon Sanderson)

[Shallan]

idk when you'll see this but I FINISHED ALL THE BOOKS CURRENTLY IN THE COSMERE YESTERDAY
So I've read, in this order:

Edgedancer
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Oathbringer
The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning
Dawnshard
Rhythm of War
Elantris

plus a number of short stories that i don't know enough to place when I read them but

[Patrick Bateman]

oh nice!!!!!

[Patrick Bateman]

the longest series of books I’ve ever read was A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I think is a similar number of books but obviously none of them were anywhere near 1,000 pages
Harry Potter was fewer books but some of them were quite long, so idk if the pagecount would be more than ASoUE

[Patrick Bateman]

according to Wikipedia, ASoUE is 13 books and a total of 3,379 pages, while HP is 7 books and a total of 3,407 pages, so 28 pages longer despite being six books fewer

[Patrick Bateman]

also, the last series of books I read, and I know this for a fact bc I read the first two in high school and then bought the third bc it came out after I graduated so I couldn't get it from the school library, was Pure by Julianna Baggott
as far as I remember, it was pretty good, it was set in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion with a weird kind of bomb that meant that people who weren't in a shelter but also weren't so close to the explosion that they died instantly were fused to whatever they were touching at the time, so the protagonist was a little girl when it happened and she has a doll fused to her hand, and there are two characters who are fused together bc one was carrying the other, etc
it was pretty good iirc, like it was YA but I read and enjoyed it after I'd outgrown YA
and then since then I haven't read any book series, nor even a book with a one-off sequel iirc

[Patrick Bateman]

wait no I just remembered that I did read the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale when it came out a few years ago
but that’s a bit different from a series, so most of what I said still stands

[Patrick Bateman]

ALSO the series I’ve read the most of would actually have to be The Babysitters’ Club bc there were roughly 600 of those books in my school library and I read so many of them from age 8-10
each book was fairly short but I’m sure all added up I read more pages of that than of Harry Potter and ASOUE

[Shallan]

ASOUE is such a good series i do want to reread it

[Patrick Bateman]

do it!!

[Shallan]

I might i might
I have so many other books to read for the first time tho

[Patrick Bateman]

books are like that

[Shallan]

I’m reading Tress of the Emerald Sea now, which is the first of Brandon’s four secret projects
It’s v good I am enjoying it even if it came to me four months late

[Patrick Bateman]

you almost certainly already know this but I saw this discourse recently about this Wired article about Brandon Sanderson and the writer of the article seemed to really not like him and a lot of people were offended bc the article seemed pretty mean and condescending, like the whole thing is “this guy is lame and isn’t even a good writer, so I set out to solve the mystery of why the hell he got so popular”
but the really fucking weird part is that amidst all of that the Wired guy randomly drops in the fact that he’s read 17 or 20 Brandon Sanderson books??

like?? why when he seems to dislike his writing and just Not Get It would be keep reading 17 or 20 books?? if a writer wasn’t good I would give up after one or two, I cannot fathom reading that many books if I didn’t like them??? truly baffling

[Patrick Bateman]

also funnily enough despite saying in this thread that I haven’t read a book series since high school I am reading the second book in a two-book series right now
it’s by Garth Greenwell, and the first book is a novel named What Belongs to You, which is about an American man living in Bulgaria and follows his relationship with a man he meets there, and the second is called Cleanness and is a collection of short stories about the same character, detailing other aspects of his life in Bulgaria outside of that one relationship, and Mitko (my phone wanted to correct that to Mitski) the other central character of the novel has not appeared in the short stories so far
I really enjoyed What Belongs to You (I read the whole thing in a single day, though it was under 200 pages so that wasn’t too difficult) and I’m about halfway into Cleanness and liking it a lot so far
also it’s funny bc I picked up both books from the library bc I’d heard good things about Greenwell and since both of the books were there and fairly short I decided I might as well get both of them, and I didn’t realise until I’d already issued them that they were about the same narrator
however they don’t necessarily have to be read in order, if I’d picked up Cleanness first and not also gotten What Belongs to You I think it would have made perfect sense anyway

[Shallan]

i've talked so much about that article LMAO it is so weird!!!!
like i do NOT understand why the author was so mean about it like sorry he's a successful fantasy writer who has a lot of fans???
like the part where Brandon was showing off his home theater and he played the greatest showman and the author was like "i hate the greatest showman and i hate hugh jackman so much that this made me cry, unlike anything brandon Sanderson has written"