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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.world

I'm not a big YouTube guy, but this is interesting, and I know a lot of people in here are reading/looking forward to reading Wind and Truth. Her end result is some beautiful (obviously impractical) books that make the regular giant hardcovers look like little baby books.

If you ignore the handful of YouTube-isms it's a pretty cool video.

edit: adding screenshot of the books compared to the regular ones.

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's weird, because they're absurdly long, but the moment to moment and scene to scene writing never makes it feel that way.

But they are for sure seriously long. (The audiobooks are 45, 48, 55, 57, 63 hours.) And by the end there are probably at least a dozen characters that I really care about, and many more that played crucial roles. Some of them feel like just names early, but a lot get built out into people that feel real.

It was already my favorite series once I powered through the first 4, but Wind and Truth went above and beyond and re-defined what I consider epic fantasy to be with the paths it opened up.

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