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Comment author: Swimmer963 29 September 2015 12:26:05AM 1 point [-]

Brandon Sanderson's writings tend to be quite decent.

I'd thought about putting the Mistborn series in the "things that are close to what I'm talking about", but I've only read 2/3 of the first book.

the explanation for the original villain remaining largely technically incompetent is rather contrived and hand-waved.

I'd forgotten about that. I think maybe I assumed the incompetent-villain characters were finding ways to skimp on the training that was supposed to be required?

Comment author: shminux 29 September 2015 05:47:38AM 0 points [-]

I think nepotism was mentioned as the reason, but it is hard to see how it would help to wiggle out of training.

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