Interview with Harriet McDougal and Brandon Sanderson

Just finshed the gathering storm and i must say i thought it was amazing. Before this book to be honestly i never heard of Brandon Sanderson. When Robert Jordon died i never thought the series would be finshed. A friend of mine told me the gathering storm was released a so i went out and bought it right away. I'm glad i did because Sanderson did a hell of a job and i can't wait for the last two books in the series.

@darknessrising999 I think you're flat out wrong for a very simple reason. Robert Jordan was a physicist. Brandon Sanderson has a degree in creative writing. For those of you who have never taken a difficult physics class it is damn hard and the profession itself is much harder. I'd rather read the notes themselves than Sanderson's work. He will never be able to fill robert jordan's shoes because he is not as talented or as intelligent. This is a glorified fanfiction. Not part of the series.

Well we can agree to disagree. I didn't say that he did or has written it better then Robert Jordan would have all i said he did a great job with it given the circumstances. Robert Jordan will always be my favorite author but me like many others wanted to read the end to this series. This book is part of the series and not fanfiction like it or not that is the way it is.

@darknessrising999 well it wasn't amazing. Not by a longshot. It felt like I was reading naruto all about characters not being able to feel anymore and going insane and being melodramatic instead of character interaction. I heard NBC was going to make a series out of eye of the world a while ago. They probably won't now but the gathering storm would make a fine soap opera.

Brandon Sanderson did a shitty job. I'm not going to describe the ways how with a 500 character limit.

I have high hopes for the work Brandon is doing on this also. My only concern, and it's not huge but nevertheless, is that Brandon is big on describing his works as having great magic "systems", and from that follows the story. I've never approached the WoT experience as being a great "magic system" but rather as a fascinating and self-consistant world on which Jordan painted an epic drama. I hope Brandon doesn't lose that feel for the sake of gaming the "magic system".

Thanks for posting this!

well i wish harriet had actually read some of sanderson's books first before deciding, especially with the magnitude of the ending of this powerful series. but she understood Robert Jordan best and the story only second to Jordan, so i'll trust her judgement and wish Brandon the best of luck on finishing this powerful and great fantasy series!

Didn't Harriet say that she asked to be sent one of his books? Right before she said that Brandon Sanderson was "a bit darker" (around 0:40).