Currently reading The Screwtape Letters (mom made me read it when I was 12, but always meant to read it again) and just finished Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell. He wrote it in 23 and most likely will be his last book considering his age.
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Just finished the fifth Stormlight Archive book from Brandon Sanderson (I made a whole post about it a few weeks ago) and I was supremely disappointed that he jumped on the woke bandwagon, grafting trannies and gay shit onto a series that was relatively devoid of that nonsense.
I just finished it as well. I think it was the worst of the Stormlight books, and the part with R+R (spoiler alert) was just .. unspeakably cringe. It felt so forced and awkward. It's also the first Stormlight book to not get 5 starts on Amazon (albeit it gets 4.5).
I think Brandon has said that those two are going to be major POV characters in the next 5 books too. Bummer.
Brandon used to be religious and socially conservative. He was never rude or judgmental or anything, he just had his values, and he wrote them. Now that he is terminally online and his success is linked in large part to his social media success and his company (kickstarter, merch, etc.), he's swung hard in the opposite direction. I think it's probably another case of TDS.
Bottomline, I've read all of the Cosmere books at least twice. I think the newest Stormlight book was the worst of all (and not just for the gay interspecies romance), but I would strongly recommend the entire Cosmere...Mistborn, Warbreaker, Stormlight, etc.
The amount of cringe in the R+R relationship cannot be overstated. I had to skim through it just to make it to the next chapters every time they were doing their awkward autism flirting.
I remember that. I’ve wanted to read his books. Is it so bad that you won’t read any future Sanderson?
I think I'm done with Sanderson. I don't see it getting any better. He really committed to it by putting two of the main male characters into an inter-species gay relationship.
Man I knew he turned to garbage and had heard of a fair bit of what was in the book, but I didn't know it went that far.
I'm done with him. I don't think he'll ever come back from this shift.
Interspecies? Disgusting Parshendi on Human buttsex? Wtaf.
Ehh, At least I didn't care much for anything aside from book 1 Kaladin.
Kaladin is pretty much the only reason I finished the series.