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> Guess Brandon Sanderson will have to finish their series after they die.

People say this often, and I don't get it. Sanderson is a terrible writer and his works and themes are nothing like ASOIAF. His only merit he has is "finishes books quickly". He's not even a fan of the books, he says they're "too dark" for him. He's the worst possible choice!

But I don't want anyone to finish ASOIAF if George dies before it's over. It's his story and no one else can do it right. We did this already and everyone hated it!

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It's just a joke, because Sanderson finished Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan died.

Despite Sanderson and Jordan having starkly different styles - I do think he did the series justice. Well worth reading.

While I'm glad Sanderson finished the series, I still felt there was a pretty strong change in the feeling of the story.

Until he took over, Rand was basically continuously loosing his sanity in the pursuit of power, which he needed to fight the dark one, which brought him closer to the madness, feeding the cycle.

It kept getting more urgent, things kept escalating. But Sandersons Rand never really lost control, imo. Rand's success felt preordained by his story telling, whereas previously the only thing we could expect was that Rand would go down fighting.

To be clear, I'm aware that Sanderson finished the story via Jordan's notes. But I strongly suspect he wouldn't have kept to them if he wrote it himself. I base that opinion on the fact that the series was supposed to be way shorter. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 6 books

Brandon Sanderson only wrote the last book though? (which he split in two because all the stuff Robert Jordan wanted to cram in would have been a ridiculous 2000+ page tome) so it was already going to be at least 11 books by Robert Jordan. FWIW the two Sanderson books are my favourite of the series (but they are also the ending so it's hard to say)

He wrote the last 3, which was indeed meant to be 1 by Jordan.

His work finishing WoT is better than a lot of his own work. I think he's publicly said he wouldn't finish ASOIAF though. I'm sure part of it is out of respect for the GRRM who is still alive, but also Sanderson isn't really capable of writing adult themes and situations due to his mormon background, so he literally wouldn't be able to adequately complete it.

>We did this already and everyone hated it!

Because they rushed it in a way that made no logical sense.

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