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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of a popular author's followings feel religious. Think about LOTR, game of thrones, Neil Gamain, J.K. Rowling, etc. I mean, does anybody criticize J.K. Rowling's writing style because there is a Harry Potter theme park? I don't think Mormonism has anything to do with it.

I totally disagree with the characterization of Sanderson's writing. First of all, his writing is not on a sixth grade level. Not at all. Second, most popular novels are written on a 7th grade reading level, and that's fine. I wonder what reading level this author's article is on. I bet it's less than 7th. Like this sentence:

"At that rate, none of the words could possibly be any good. They’d be right, in a way, and that’s what Sanderson agrees with. At the sentence level, he is no great gift to English prose."

I mean, I understand it, but that's a worse sentence than any of Sanderson's bad ones.

Anyway, I have read most of Sanderson's most popular books. They aren't my favorite books ever, but I think he has a real gift for setting (which is probably why they aren't my favorite books; setting is the least interesting thing to me in novels). Some of his characterization is just incredible. A lot of his characters have mental illness, and he does such a good job humanizing those issues. I appreciate his approach to gender in his later books (he learned a lot from criticism of his earlier books), and his treatment of race and colonialism is really thought-provoking. I realize I'm making him sound like he's a leftist, but obviously he isn't; he is a professor at a Mormon university.

Anyways, this guy obviously doesn't like Sanderson, and that's fine, but I disagree with his criticisms. [/quote]

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