YA Fantasy: Christopher Paolini, James Dashner & Brandon Sanderson
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2014
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These three giants of YA fantasy are multiple award-winners and dominate bestsellers lists with their epic novels. They discuss what's important in the fantasy genre, film news and updates (including the latest on The Maze Runner) and what's next from each of them. Moderated by Alex Zalben.
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Brandon Sanderson is a genius! I loved this interview.
The Inheritance is definitely a get into reading kind of book. It was for me. The Stormlight Archives is for the tried and true fantasy reader. I liked Eragon but I don't think I would now, after all that I have read.
Yeah after you've read Sanderson, eragon just doesnt really compare. I tried to read it again and I got bored
Yep, I think I read Eragon after The Swan Kingdom and the Old Kingdom Trilogy. Before that I'd only read Harry Potter for fantasy books. Eragon got my into the more traditional fantasy and I loved it. Now, I don't think I'd get the same enjoyment out of it.
Love Dashner's sense of humour. It always amazes me how someone can talk very little and still say something meaningful. You don't have to talk fast and a lot to convey substance, which he demonstrated here.
• For those who like Sanderson - go ahead and check out Writing Excuses if you haven't already. He and other authors do 15 min. podcasts with tips and tricks for wanna-be-writers. It's genius. "Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry and we're not that smart." •
I cant find the excuses, am i dumb?
He just seems to focus on himself and ignore the conversation; I’m missing it
@@CudiBuddy4Life It's not really the words he says, but the meanings behind them
Read all these guys and listened to almost everything Brandon Sanderson has posted on youtube and enjoyed there work. I really enjoy Paolini ending of The Inheritance Cycle in an satisfying yet bitter sweet ending that left the reader wanting more. Also it felt like the world did go on and so did the adventure for the people in it. I only have read Dasher's Maze Runner series and it was just wow with some of the unexpected boom moments. Looking forward to reading more of Sanderson but his Mistborn series was great then he blew my mind in how well he transitioned into other stories set in that world.
James Dashner is such a chilled out guy. And I like him for idoling King :P
Stephen King fan got that quote backwards. "You can teach a bad writer to become a competent writer, you can teach a competent writer to become a good writer, but you can never teach a good writer to be a great writer. Some people are just born with it." I've been reading On Writing.
@@ecrusar5216 yuup
That was an awesome interview, all 3 authors are so cool and witty
I was extremely fortunate in being introduced to the right kind of fantasy at the right age. Started off with Brian Jacques, Goosebumps, Harry Potter. Then went to Eragon, Lord of the Rings, Shannara. In college, I started reading Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss. Now, I'm reading Brandon Sanderson, and Steven Erikson. Dear God, Steven Erikson :O
+thtr1310 Read Brent Weeks, You don't even know what You're missing.
Robin Hoob real grat writer (more of a brander sandersonish )
Stephen King Darktower is a must read and ofc WITCHER!!
Very enjoyable discussion. Loved them reading each others work. I think it is fantastic that such different people can all be successful in this field.
I never read Dashner. Maybe i should because the dude is hilarious. But not intruding. He seems very chill and he has great timing. I think he should definitively write some King-ish Horror novels, like he said. he will find a good tone for that stuff.
R3ad his first Maze Runner book
You can't teach talent, but you can teach craft.
i could listen to them for houuurrrsssss
I do
My brother taught me to read, using Archie books/Comics.
I went right from there to Tolkein's The Hobbit.
Nice!
great interview and god I love Brandon Sanderson
There is a different between Brandon and Cristoph. If you read Eragon, you don't won't to live in that world, you won't to be the fuckin' Eragon. But in Brandon novels, the world is another character that you must discover to have a clear vision of the other characters's surroundings.
Great writer and real charismatic person in interviews.
Omg wheel of time inheritance cycle and the maze runner I love all these books so much!!
Well, Wheel of Time is really just Robert Jordan. Brandon is Mistborn, Elantris, and Stormlight Archive.
Sanderson finished off the last three Wheel of Time books with Jordan's notes, etc. so he does get a bit of credit there, but yeah it's ultimately not his world, so to speak.
whole series from C.S Lewis, then a Wrinkle in Time, and so many others started reading at 3yrs of age and at 52 have not stopped. Did all my American Classic reading and book reports were on Stephen King books. HS graduated in 1984...
Christopher Paolini: "You can't teach inspiration."
Brandon Sanderson (Beginning of a creative writing lecture): "Writing is not about inspiration."
Which do you agree with? Personally, I choose Sanderson for reasons I could go on for pages about, but unless provoked will refrain from.
I think they both meant very different things when they said that. I've seen all his lectures, and what Brandon meant was that writing is not about the ideas involved, that a good writer will make a bad idea into a good book, but if you're a bad author, no matter how good your idea, your book won't do that good. Christopher was saying that you can't make someone inspired to write a book, you can't put that determination in them.
Christopher Paolini rocks all the wayy
Janseli24 Have you read Brisingr?
Yep
I just mention it because I didn't find the conclusion very well thought through and seemed rushed despite the large amount of time between it and the earlier novel. I don't mean to sound off putting, though. I would love to hear something in it's defense if you are willing for debate.
Sanderson is just good at talking about this stuff, and is probably going to dominate the conversation. He is a prolific writer who has taken over a very popular series, as well as doing his own work. He has constructed theory about fantasy writing, that is used by other authors, he has university qualifications in writing *and* he lectures at University in writing fantasy.
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Man, if a book doesn't have an ending, I kinda get annoyed. I get it "the true ending is a mystery" but that mystery just feels empty to me.
I can't hear anything Christopher is saying.
They fix his microphone problem after the very beginning
@@lukehebert6207 Even then... haha
12:12 Yes, the "Mabinogion"-books by Evangeline Walton, so happy to hear them mentioned, cause they seldom are. Basically, If you've read Lloyd Alexander and his "Prydain"-books, then the "Mabinogion"-sequence of books is kind of the original stories and mythology from Wales that Alexander actually (loosely) based his YA Fantasy "Prydain"-books on. What Evangeline Walton did was go back to the original source material and make this very old material accessible and readable for a modern audience.
Oh wow, that was fun to watch. I love the camaraderie they show--who else here would love to be able to share that camaraderie with authors you've read?
--Christie V Powell, author of "The Spectra Unearthed"
That's so funny that the authors do the same thing with names I do, i love it!
Hi Christopher; I have always used you as a great example to my kids. I tell people if you want to raise great kids, got to Paradise, Montana. LOL. I have never been able to finish the last book and have had them since published. I'm reading epic Justin Cronin for the winter but am considering your epic dragon series again in spring just to reread so I can read the ending, if I can. I just couldn't stand to end the story then. I so love your work. Stephen King really recommends Justin's three book epic end of times.
I've been reading YA since I was 27 yrs. old and now am 64 and still love illistrated young adult books. They are the most interesting. Also didn't read much in school, took my kids to library and fell in love with reading. Now authors and books are my best friends.
I thought it was kinda funny, and sorta adorable, that Christopher Paolini moved Eragon to be closest to him; kinda shows the sort of father-like attitude he has for his creation.
11:07 I'm dying I'm dying
That's one nice t-shirt Brandon.
When James Dashner said prologue... I died. And then Christopher Paolini tries to make the same joke. Cringe (-.-)
Chris Straeuli ohh I know poor guy you don’t steal somebody’s jokes at the same party 😂
"None of them have phones..."
I'm watching this on my phone...
Metoo
So, they do fix Chris' mic... word!
Sanderson is the only author of these 3 I enjoy. Dashner is really good at making an enticing first book then ending it terribly and making the next two books in the trilogy awful e.g. Maze Runner, and The eye of minds
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Putting Paolini beside Brandon is so messed up. It's crystal clear the abyss between them. It's also amazing how Brandon encourages the little guy. And Dashner is really cool by knowing when to talk and when to listen.
I like Sanderson way more than Paolini but i don't understand all the hate. Eragon is different to all Sanderson books. Definitely for another audience. It is a great fantasy book for younger people. And most of the haters know that in their hearts, because they spend hours and hours to read tousands of pages Paolini wrote. And if they did not? Consummate hypocrites.
No offense, but really? Brandon Sanderson is a GREAT author (and a good writer) but his books are so...basic? He's like the Linkin Park of the publishing world (great music, but not necessarily iconic) Don't get me wrong, he can write INCREDIBLE plots and great magic systems. But his prose is nothing special, his dialogue is horribly cheesy (have you seen his made-up swear words? Which I don't mind but sometimes they don't even make an ounce of sense; "Color you!"), and his magic systems (though great) come out too manufactured and too processed to the point it becomes like kinematic formulas from a physics class; incredibly interesting but also quite boring and mundane by the end of the semester. Admittedly the magic system portion is a "to each their own" scenario :/
Diogo Barreiros i also think that paolini is great for children...i worshipped the eragon series as a kid..im rereading the books right now and they're really not as good as i remember them, but i think im not the targeted audience...they'll always have a special place in my heart though..
Retro Controller you are so wrong it makes so much sense but it is just so complicated and wonderful and complex with so many detailed story lines and complicated personalities that all contrast with each other the dialogue is so windy
"Putting Paolini beside Brandon is so messed up..." I'm fairly certain Sanderson would be the first to frown upon comments like these.
Paolini: "Series need to have endings or else they're not as good" a few minutes later: "I left a lot of questions unanswered in the last book because the story and world go on"
The only question he left unanswered was that thing with the Menoa tree. Not that he felt it was important (and if he felt that way, why put it in in the first place?).
Besides, if he felt the need to leave questions unanswered, what the heck were those last 8 or so chapters for in the last book??
I think what he means is a series that literally has no ending. There are quite a few fantasy series that were never finished. There are also many series with a 5 year wait between each book. This is a problem in this genre, you don't want to read a bunch of lengthy, complicated books, then never have any kind of resolution, good or bad. The Inheritance Cycle has an ending. Some like it, some don't, but it WAS finished. As for giving the reader the sense that the world continues beyond the ending of the story, that's a good thing. Paolini's Inheritance Cycle doesn't fit into the group of unfinished Fantasy series to which he was referring.
comment is 2 years too late, but in a AMA Paolini said there will be another Eragon book soon
I had the exact same experience with the Lord of the Rings. It intimidated me as a 11 year old and I couldn't read it but then I got through the Hobbit and I had no problem starting it. It was literally my gateway. Fortunately that was how Tolkien planned it.
I like to read one-star reviews of books I love too. Sanderson = informative and inspiring, Dashner = cool and funny, Paolini = annoying and needy. He was constantly interrupting the other authors and making lame jokes. That being said, he seems like a really nice guy and plenty of what he said was entertaining
I think it's funny that Christopher calls The Wizard of Earthsea a trilogy. I pretend like Tehanu doesn't exist either too. Hahaha
Did they really not give that man a mic?? 😂
The inheritance cycle is good, but Paolini's attitude is almost as if he's trying to be something he's not, which is a more sophisticated person than everyone in the room. Also, the inheritance cycle (about a seventh of the way into Eldest), they are not adult books. They are YA
He was not adult when he wrote it
Lol that’s just how is homeschoolers talk
Yeah, I stopped the video because he annoyed me, talking over the rest of the writers using grand words. Instead I watched an interview just of Sanderson :)
Paolin'si best comment, where he sounded mature and thoughtful, was when he explained how a book is designated as a YA novel. Give him a break -- he's young and he's at the table with the grown-ups. Give him a few years and I sure he'll be less annoying as he comes across here. I doubt that I would be any less annoying if I had that level of success at that age.
Actually, though he's young, he's been published as long as Dashner, and was a published author *before* Sanderson. Their just older than him.
He's only 7 years younger than Sanderson, I think he was 30 here.
If the check clears your a success
I wonder if James ever met the mayor before he passed?
What! He didn’t pass.
@Username 123 Yeah bro. I miss our boi Rob
From Sanderson to Paolini is like going from best to worst.
23:34 ...Sitting here in 2020 like... OOF...
just came to watch that epic PROLOGUEe moment. yeah 39 min. no thanks
is Young Adult just a euphemism for teenager? or does it mean preteen to teen?
3:30 James Dashner
thank god i thought it was just my school that had shitty writing classes
Steelheart has always been one of my least favorite books of Brandon, but having the prologue read next to the other stuff still proves that Brandon's weakest work is miles ahead of Paolini's best.
Isn't Paolini the guy who's parents made him famous by publishing his books?
No, that is a misconception. From my understanding, they formed a publishing company when he went about self publishing Eragon. Apparently his family was having really bad financial issues and so he decided he would try to write a book, and his family decided they would put their bets on it and went all in.
I know ppl love to shit on Paolini but to be fair, his parents aren't responsible for his success. Before Eragon ended up in every bookstore, he was going around the country talking to students his age about writing and promoting the book.
[Saying this as a nonfan]
Paolini’s family were on the brink of financial ruin. They did not have a publishing company. Basically, secluded writers in Montana. The whole family bonded together to support Christopher’s book
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You can teach a bad writer to be a good writer- and a good writer to be a better writer- but not a good writer to be a great writer. Great writers just are- that’s Stephen Kings quote. Not only misquoting him but mischaracterizing the entire meaning of the quote is annoying.
100%
Wait steelheart is YA.... thats news.
Sanderson is the only one worth listening to.
An embarrassment because the sound people messed up, can't hear one of the writers. Subtitles, uh what are those? Incompetents.
+Jeffrey Frentzen
Put headphones on and turn the volume up. Worked for me. I could hear them just fine.
+xPunkerx (AnarCrustSka) I did that, and then I was deafened by a skype call coming in ;) The sound people did screw up, no way around it, but you are right, it is salvageable.
Eragon wasn't that great. It received attention because he was a kid when he wrote it and he got a lot of help publishing it. Then it was made into a shitty movie. I know that I got the book from a family member, as did a lot of boys my age at the time, and I don't think I even finished it. I certainly can't remember any of the characters or what happened, other than it had something to do with dragons, what a surprise. Went back to waiting for the next wheel of time book. It's a generic fantasy novel that isn't even interestingly done. Putting him in the same room with people who know what they are doing, and didn't strike oil like he did, really makes it obvious.
You can always spot the home-schooled. Paolini, you don't write, you cut and paste, hack. And stop interrupting!
Didn't Christopher Paolini basically get popular by blatantly ripping off other writer's works?
He wrote a generic fantasy novel that happened to get popular and he has milked it to this day, honestly he is not that good of an author, Eldest, the second book in his Eragon series, is by far the most boring slog of 800 pages I have ever had the displeasure to read, and the other 2 books in that series were not much better. He brings very little to the table and isn't very creative, especially compared to other fantasy writers. For what it is worth, I'm not a huge fan of Dashner either (I don't like how he ends his books) but he is a very good author and what he does write is very entertaining until the ending. Paolini is just bad, Eragon was okay, and everything he has written is utter crap, and he just ins't a good author.
@@Eagleye-ws1lk Toooo beeee faaaair, he did write Eragon at 15, which is pretty amazing. I don't think he expected the series would blow up like that. It's not great, but it's a hell of a lot better than the average writer at that age.
Lews Therin Talamon I totally agree lol. I was younger when I wrote this comment. I remember really liking eragon and then hating eldest and it kind of skewed my perception
He is known for being derivative, and Eragon is popularly known as being a retelling of Star Wars.... (not sure how true that is?)
@@techgeek3366 it is really true Eragon=Luke his mentor dies like Obi-Wan there is even the I am your father twist but now its his brother
Brandon Sanderson is too accustomed to doing one on one talks. He gives such long answers, Paolini and Dashner barely get to talk.
Why do male authors always look so... greasy?? and just always slightly off...?
Hot lights and no makeup.
Arden Blue They're called nerds dude.
Oh wow right after I replied, they pointed it out themselves lol.
except for John Green tho...He has his shit together
WTF!!!!