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Finally broke through into the Sanderson Wheel of Time books. The characters are all very much recognizable, with the exception that some older characters are no longer arrested at a mental age of 17, and even some of the younger characters occasionally think about something other than gender stereotypes. No complaints there. Sanderson does get a tad precious with a certain character's fish metaphors, which Jordan kept simple, if just as frequent.
Sanderson has set aside the "everyone's an unreliable narrator" bit that was arguably the major redeeming quality of Jordan's writing. It's probably a major philosophical difference between the two authors, that Sanderson insists upon a consensus reality, however odd its features, while Jordan allowed considerable doubt as to whether any such reality did or could exist, or could be accessible to humans.
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