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Zeus posted...

It's weird, isn't it? In principle, it should all be the same, but for whatever reason everybody (myself included) views it as some separate thing. There's not much precedent for it with other media. For instance, j-horror is still seen as being a part of horror. When people think of musicals, they don't necessarily balk when Bollywood comes up. But I'll be reading a superhero manga or webtoon and I'll view it as something fundamentally different.

I suspect that might have developed from the "anime is not the same as cartoons" mentality that prevailed during the late '90s anime / manga boom.

Meanwhile I wound up reading some of Sanderson's prose and I just wasn't feeling it. And, on the subject of things not doing it for me, I've decided to go through my library to see what I probably won't ever read. It started when I got one paragraph into The Hero and the Crown (which I think I just grabbed at a library book sale when filling a bag) and I just couldn't imagine reading the rest. I think I probably have a lot of titles like that in my library.

By coincidence, I have been considering a reread of The Hero and the Crown, since the last time I picked it up was for a book report in 5th Grade, and I did not understand a lot of things about it back then.

I would consider Sanderson to be a great worldbuilder, but not necessarily the best at turning such a world into a great story. Probably a top-shelf Dungeon Master, and I like him all right as a writer, but I feel like there are others who are above him on the authorial totem pole (... most of them dead).

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