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Evil Fluffy posted:People think Erikson is good even though Malazan is like someone managed to vomit word salad in 4D.
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Pacho posted:My guess is that it's like that episode of Firefly about how you don't need sex to feel validated as an adult but also you totally do Huh?
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PJOmega posted:Huh? The one where some noble wants his son to lose his virginity with Inara. Can't remember the name of the episode. Inara talks with the kid about how sex is not really gonna make him a man, fucks him anyway and he suddenly finds the courage to stand up to his dad. So yeah, a "cake and eat it" situation. In Kvothe's case I got the impression that Rothfuss wanted him to be all woke and beyond bro-ish attitudes but at the same time needed him to be sexually validated because he can't escape the old notion that a hero needs to gently caress
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also much like the rothfuss books, firefly has poo poo writing and its creator is a sex creep
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to be fair rothfuss only comes across as a creepy weirdo whereas whedon is at the very least an actual abuser
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idiotsavant posted:also much like the rothfuss books, firefly has poo poo writing and its creator is a sex creep It's got the overly snappy writing that feels like a genre unto itself. The sort of writing that feels like it was made to frame lines for tshirts and other merch.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Tetralogy. This is what will happen, but on a bigger scale. "My dear readers! With all the delays, so many people pointed out that there's a lot to cover in the third book, almost as if it's unreasonable, and they might have been right. So I've expanded it! Expect book three soon, and books four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine soon after that! Thanks! Don't forget to visit me at the forty-seven cons I'm going to this year - autographs will be about $45 a pop. I'll be sitting down with the Penny Arcade guys, where they'll draw comics about how we're all great friends and how my two books are the bestest ever." GRRM seems - at least from what I can tell in his public interviews - to feel lovely for not finishing his books quickly enough. He has that guilty dog look of not wanting to make eye contact and is like "I'm working to make it the best I can, please be patient while I try, try, try". He's also involved in the business side of things, earnestly talking about the Hugos and editors and illustrators. Rothfuss plays tabletop games for fans to cheer him on and says this: Vulture Interview posted:“They don’t realize this is so wearying,” he said with a sigh when we spoke a few weeks ago. “It’s like asking, ‘When are you going to get married? When are you going to go to law school?’ It’s like, just gently caress off. Just die. I don’t need any more of that in my life.” It still amazes me the Stephen King can write a fantasy series in between writing other books and getting absolutely destroyed by a minivan.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:
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Tim Burns Effect posted:and the quality reflects that and yet still way better than Rothfuss
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my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss Not really.
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my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss  they are robot wolves with Dr Doom hoods, lightsabers and exploding Harry Potter snitches. All of these things are mentioned by name
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Tim Burns Effect posted:
But how is the prose?
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my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss no lies detected King might have problems, but he makes page turners. I can't tell you how many times I've yelled "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOU.... MOVE THE STORY" in traffic while listening to Rothfuss on audio book
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Tim Burns Effect posted:
and yet still way better than Rothfuss
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my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss in the way that one turd can smell better than another, different turd i guess
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my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss The only thing i've read from King was the first Dark Tower book and it was... boring. I've heard that the series picks up after he second book but the first one really put me off. Can't really compare it with Rothfuss because they are really different but I wouldn't call, at least that book, better
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I wouldn't know I've never read anything by Stephen King Dreamcatcher is a masterpiece of modern film though
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His novellas are better than his novels and his short stories are better than his novellas But lmao at putting Rothfuss in the same level, let alone the same building as King or GRRM
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ElGroucho posted:His novellas are better than his novels and his short stories are better than his novellas I'm curious as to what level he actually sits at. I'm not cruel enough to say Rothfuss and Kevin J Anderson are on the same level, but I'm hard pressed to think of a comparable writer to match against Rothfuss. From what context and background I'm familiar with I'd go with David "The name of the main French Republic expy villain is Rob S Pierre" Weber.
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PJOmega posted:What in the hell is this? https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2012/07/why-i-love-my-editor/
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ElGroucho posted:I'm so horny for kvothe, the 17 year old ginger That's Rothfuss himself B
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PJOmega posted:What in the hell is this? An image from Rothfuss, noted feminist.
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“The truth was, I’d been focusing all my energy on Name of the Wind for years while book two just sat their gathering dust.” — NYT best selling author
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ElGroucho posted:gross 
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I really, really hope they moderated the hell out of that comment section. Otherwise it's even worse that no one called him out on that.
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[quote="ElGroucho" post=""492907469"] gross [/quote] You don''t want to have a three way with two attractive women (or men, if that's your thing) wearing cat ears before you die? That's an experience you have no interest in? Weird.
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idiotsavant posted:to be fair rothfuss only comes across as a creepy weirdo whereas whedon is at the very least an actual abuser Whedon is (or was, before his sexcreep stuff came out) one of the people Rothfuss idolizes. Not sure if he rejected Whedon or doubled down afterwards but considering Rothfuss looks like the kind of guy who kidnaps and eats hobos and how he writes women as props I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out the same. my bony fealty posted:and yet still way better than Rothfuss That's a bar so low you'd need an excavator to find it, though.
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pentyne posted:I'm curious as to what level he actually sits at. I'm not cruel enough to say Rothfuss and Kevin J Anderson are on the same level, but I'm hard pressed to think of a comparable writer to match against Rothfuss. From what context and background I'm familiar with I'd go with David "The name of the main French Republic expy villain is Rob S Pierre" Weber. I really don't see David Weber poo poo on enough.
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Kchama posted:I really don't see David Weber poo poo on enough. Is that the dude with the lady captain and her stupid space cat?
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ElGroucho posted:Is that the dude with the lady captain and her stupid space cat? Sure is!
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