All statements about Brandon Sanderson

32 statements about Brandon Sanderson in 15 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: Robert Jordan has died, Ali thinks, and Brandon Sanderson took over writing the last few books of The Wheel of Time. (hedged) — 00:09:49
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: Brandon Sanderson is Ali's favourite fantasy author of all time, ahead of J. K. Rowling, to whom he apologises. — 00:09:49
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: Since late 2017 Ali has always had a fantasy audiobook on the go on Audible: first Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, then Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. (hedged) — 00:10:26
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: After the Kingkiller Chronicles, Ali took about a whole year to get through the first three books of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, listening from 2018 to mid- or late 2019. (hedged) — 00:10:55
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali and other fans are anxiously awaiting the fourth Stormlight Archive book, which he thinks should come out in November 2020. (hedged) — 00:10:55
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: Even at two hours a day the fantasy books take Ali months or years, so following his recommended order would sort the next three to five years of audio entertainment on the go; and Brandon Sanderson keeps churning out novels. — 00:13:53
2020-09-29 · How to See Problems as Opportunities (The Obstacle is the Way) — Ali calls "journey before destination", an ideal of the Knights Radiant in Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, focusing on the process rather than the outcome, one of the fundamental pieces of life advice that all self-help converges on. — 00:03:10
2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — Ali: At the gym Ali listens to Brandon Sanderson's Starsight on Audible. — 00:04:25
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali cries mostly at epic scenes in books and audiobooks, often towards the end of every Brandon Sanderson book. — 00:06:07
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali has listened to fantasy audiobooks since about 2017, starting with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn at 1x; in 2020 he finished the 14-book Wheel of Time series, begun in March 2019. — 00:16:02
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali is listening to Brandon Sanderson's Rhythm of War, out about two weeks earlier, at 1.5x to savour it, and may slow to 1x for the most epic parts. — 00:16:33
2020-12-22 · PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete — Ali: Over breakfast Ali listens to book four of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive on Audible. — 00:01:27
2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — Ali read the 14 books of The Wheel of Time from mid-2019 and finished around March or April 2020, listening on his drives to and from work. (hedged) — 00:09:55
2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — recommendation: Ali: Newcomers to fantasy should not start with The Wheel of Time, which is slow and long, Ali says, but with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. — 00:11:13
2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — recommendation: Ali recommends Elantris, an early standalone novel by Brandon Sanderson, slower-paced than his later books; he stayed up until about 4am three nights in a row reading it. — 00:13:15
2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — recommendation: Ali found The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal, a few-hour audio production with music and sound effects about a clone sent to kill her original, absolutely incredible on a drive to Oxford. — 00:15:50
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali keeps in mind "journey before destination" from Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive: if you enjoy the journey, everything becomes fantastic because you are having fun doing the thing. — 00:17:45
2020-12-31 · I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals — Ali's first objection to goals was that they make us focus too much on the destination and not enough on the journey; he believes in "journey before destination", as Brandon Sanderson would say. — 00:00:58

2019

2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — recommendation: Ali recommends Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy as wonderful, and agrees with a viewer's suggestion of The Way of Kings. — 00:20:32
2019-06-20 · My Favourite Fantasy Books — recommendation: Ali recommends three fantasy series he discovered last year (2018) and loved: Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicles and Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. — 00:00:00
2019-06-20 · My Favourite Fantasy Books — Ali: All of Brandon Sanderson's books are set in the same universe, the Cosmere, on different worlds, with characters who reappear in other books and recurring mysteries. — 00:08:41
2019-06-20 · My Favourite Fantasy Books — Ali: From Brandon Sanderson's interviews and website, Ali understands that the Cosmere books will tie together over the next 20 years or so in a planned way, which he loves. (hedged) — 00:09:10
2019-06-20 · My Favourite Fantasy Books — Ali: After The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, Ali is now listening to Oathbringer, the third Stormlight Archive book; Brandon Sanderson is writing the fourth and fifth. — 00:13:34
2019-06-20 · My Favourite Fantasy Books — Ali says another five Stormlight Archive books will come out over the next 20 years or so, so a reader starting now has 20 years of entertainment ahead, because Brandon Sanderson will deliver. — 00:13:34

2018

2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, which he discovered at the end of 2017 and devoured; a friend recommended it to about ten of his friends, who all loved it. — 00:06:40
2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says another Mistborn instalment comes next year (2019) and apparently ties a lot of things together. (hedged) — 00:08:52
2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali plans to read all of Brandon Sanderson's other books, because he has heard that their universes often touch one another. — 00:08:52
2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: After Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, Ali read Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, finishing the second as an Audible audiobook. — 00:05:03
2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali suggests starting Brandon Sanderson with Mistborn, which is very readable, since The Stormlight Archive is denser and, like Game of Thrones, introduces many characters. — 00:06:03
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — recommendation: Ali is listening to Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, the second book of The Stormlight Archive, and recommends it. — 00:12:32
2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali found the gym hard until he set up a system that made it enjoyable: a workout decided in advance so he does no thinking, and an audiobook, these days Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer. — 00:08:03
2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali's top three reads of 2018, enjoyed equally: Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles and Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. — 00:13:03