Anyone read Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson?

I read it here:
http://brandonsanderson.com/library/catalog/Warbreaker_Full-Books/

It started out kind of typical but I quite enjoyed the ending and found the twist unexpected.

Nightblood. Want.

Which other books of his are good?

 

The Stormlight Archive is going to be 10 books long, so if you're waiting for him to finish, you're going to be waiting a long time.

 

Seems weird to wait 2 decades to start a series.

 

How so? There are plenty of completed series to read without the need to pick up an uncompleted one.

 

I'm probably just biased since Sanderson is my favorite author and The Way of Kings is in my top 3 books of all time. God I can't wait until Words of Radiance.

Drunk, so can't provide in depth reviews, but here's my sanderson ratings, which is at least quasi relevant to the OP.

Elantris: 5/10. easily shows that it's his first novel. good storytelling and world building, but poor writing. i mean it's technically proficient, but you can tell that he's still working on the nuances of foreshadowing, and the prose gets too purple at times
Warbreaker: 8/10. fun. above average writing, good storytelling and world building
Mistborn saga: 9/10. mondo-fun. great world building, great storytelling, good writing. The alloy of law was aight.
The Way of Kings: 10/10. great fun. STELLAR worldbuilding, fantastic storytelling.

I haven't read the Alcatraz series, nor The Rithmatist.

 

All evidence points to one big plot. There's only one book with lots of exposition so far since it's book 1, but the foreshadowing is rampant. I definitely don't see it being like dresden in that there's the hinting of an overarching plot, but it doesn't act that way in the way it presents the single mystery settings or whatever. Sure, The Way of Kings sets up a lot of subplots (as you'd expect from a 10 book series being plotted since 1998), but the overarching theme is easily recognizable, even this early, without question.

It doesn't hurt that all of his "main books" ie, not his young adult fiction, tie into the same universe/galaxy, The Cosmere. Like, Elantris and The Emperor's Soul take place on Sel, which is/was "governed" by the Shards (of Adonalsium, the apparent true being of creation whose power was "splintered.") Devotion/Dominion, Mistborn/The Alloy of Law takes place on Scadrial, which is/was governed by Preservation/Ruin/Harmony, Warbreaker which takes place on Nalthis "governed" by Endowment, and The Stormlight Archive on Roshar "goverened" by Honor/Cultivation. The magic systems inherent in The Stormlight Archive, all 24 of them, seem set to tie them all together. Word of God has already revealed that travel between the planets is possible without spaceships and what not through Shadesmar.

 

Warbreaker and Elantris are probably his least successful adult books. Elantris is a fun story, competently written, and in some respects its my favourite of his magic systems - pending more of The Stormlight Archive - but it is obviously a first novel. Warbreaker is better in terms of writing, but the magic system is far too complicated for my tastes, and honestly a little ridiculous. It's been a while since I read it, but the only character I remember being particularly interested in was Lightsong.

The Alcatraz series was underwhelming; the key problem was that he's trying to write a character in the mold of Flashman, or Ciaphas Cain, but the worst you can really say of Alcatraz is that he's a teenager, so the whole joke falls flat. Other than that, it's really silly - nothing wrong with that, but it feels like he decided that it had to be silly because it's YA fiction.

The Mistborn series (including the Alloy of Law, although that's a seperate story for the most part) is his best work so far (that I've read, at least). Fantastic story, good writing - I wouldn't say that Sanderson has a particularly notable style or quality of technique, but he writes consistently and solidly - interesting and engaging characters, and although I'd argue that Allomancy is more a system of superpowers than a magic system, it is undoubtedly awesome.

The Way of Kings is fantastic, but at this stage a little bloated. I don't mind reading doorstoppers, but there are entire sections about characters and situations that have no importance to anything other than world building; fair enough, but when the main book is approaching eight or nine hundred pages you might want the world building to be a little more relevant. Given that it's only one book though, all of those bits that come across as padding might turn out to be important later on.

 

Actually, what struck me was that Vasher has a more interesting story then all the other characters particularly his back story which would have been a intriguing place to set another novel.

How did I miss that archive of his drafts. That's an awesome thing to put up so writers can see that revision is integral to writing.

Mistborn as several recommended is next on my list.