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Manstrocity posted:It's hard to conclude anything from the 990. Their non-program expenses are a crazy high proportion, but it seems like Worldbuilders works as more of a marketing arm for other non-profits- saying "hey this charity exists, go donate to them." In that case, why would they report any of those donations as revenue, as you were suggesting in another post? The 'contract' with the donor doesn't involve WI. You're right that they don't seem explicitly charitable, but nonprofit and not-for-profit and charity are different things. You can't reason someone out of a belief they weren't reasoned into.
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Terror Sweat posted:Yeah but there was also that bandit camp killing scene which was pretty dope. It was an excellent way to really show off the magic system he spent a book and a half refining. More of that and less of everything else and we're golden. Wasn't the thread consensus on this scene that it was written before the rest of the novel and hamfistedly reinserted afterwards, because the characterization is completely at odds with the rest of the writing?
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Rime posted:Wasn't the thread consensus on this scene that it was written before the rest of the novel and hamfistedly reinserted afterwards, because the characterization is completely at odds with the rest of the writing? Also that it wasn't the first time a short story about Kvothe had been stitched up and put into the book; some of the Tarbean scenes in particular seem very out of place with what happens after that.
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Rime posted:Wasn't the thread consensus on this scene that it was written before the rest of the novel and hamfistedly reinserted afterwards, because the characterization is completely at odds with the rest of the writing? You're thinking of the time Kvothe killed the bandits (who were disguised as Edema Ruh but Kvothe could tell they were fakes and child sex traffickers because they shoplifted a beer), Terror Sweat is talking about the time Kvothe killed the bandits (who were robbing tax collectors and were later retroactively mentioned to be lead by a Chandrian for no particular reason).
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i mean retroactively making them lead by a chandrian was the only way to make it at least look like literally anything in that book actually mattered
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I recently proofread a book and I swear the author made that mistake every single time he meant to write "led". Every single time. I blame Robert Plant.
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It has been 2/3 books and we have no idea what the Chandrian want despite them being framed as the primary antagonists.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:It has been 2/3 books and we have no idea what the Chandrian want despite them being framed as the primary antagonists. I can't remember much of book 2. How many times have we seen the Chandrian? Only time I remember is when they merk'd Kvothe's band of miscreants at the beginning of book 1.
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The random bandit wood fight, and I guess one of the Chandrian is beating Denna because he is a mean poopy head.
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Hughmoris posted:I can't remember much of book 2. How many times have we seen the Chandrian? Only time I remember is when they merk'd Kvothe's band of miscreants at the beginning of book 1. Never except assuming the very first encounter in book one where his family gets murked for singing the wrong songs. 1300 pages later literally nothing other then "stories impossible to find, vague rumors and mysteries" about this crazy powerful impossible threat that has obscured all information and myth about itself except for special Kvothe who's uncovered 5% of the mystery without hassle. In retrospect it reads very much like a DM dropping breadcrumbs at the start of a year long planned campaign and then completely forgetting about it until someone randomly asks later so they shoehorn in another vague reference.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:It has been 2/3 books and we have no idea what the Chandrian want despite them being framed as the primary antagonists. They probably want to gently caress D***** like everyone else in the books.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:The random bandit wood fight, and I guess one of the Chandrian is beating Denna because he is a mean poopy head. wait, did we find out about the latter from the mean tree or something i don't feel like trying to find a section between all of rothfuss's pathetic sexual fantasies to verify
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Yeah the really mean super bad tree said something about “Master Ash” beating her. He started small but now he’s using a walking stick.
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Capisano posted:Yeah the really mean super bad tree said something about “Master Ash” beating her. He started small but now he’s using a walking stick. Doesn't he have a vision/dream of her bruised and crying in a room somewhere? Just everything about Denna drips with creepy male feminist/incel bait. This supposed escort who he falls in love with and is a match for his quick wits and he's able to totally show off in front of her by playing impossible songs once his guitar string breaks.
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pentyne posted:and he's able to totally show off in front of her by playing impossible songs once his guitar string breaks. I know it's been discussed before, but can we take a moment to admire Rothfuss's complete inability to write about music? Just...so bad.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:The story stalled in a nonsensical word salad about music that felt like book was saying bad.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I know it's been discussed before, but can we take a moment to admire Rothfuss's complete inability to write about music? Just...so bad. He was obsessed with music when he wrote the first book and then was obsessed with sex when he wrote the second book. Third book will have a ton of purple prose describing breakfast cereal if it ever comes out.
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It's really kind of impressive how r/Kingkiller is desperately repeating that Rothfuss can write like no other while trying to reconcile his King Nerd behavior with...what they're getting. I mean, even as a dumb college student reading Book 1 I looked at the blurb on the back and thought "wow, this is pretentious." Fortunately he has saved me from having to do the hate read of the third book, so...
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pentyne posted:Doesn't he have a vision/dream of her bruised and crying in a room somewhere? given how one of the gay(?) bar men who hired kvothe took him aside to tell him that the only three professions available to women are seamstress, noblewoman or prostitute and that he shouldn't begrudge her for taking the third option i think creepy male feminist bait seems about right
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Raiad posted:given how one of the gay(?) bar men who hired kvothe took him aside to tell him that the only three professions available to women are seamstress, noblewoman or prostitute and that he shouldn't begrudge her for taking the third option i think creepy male feminist bait seems about right This doesn't really make sense considering that there's women at the University. What, are they learning magic for funsies, or is it how they're going to become better seamstresses or prostitutes? I just don't think he thought all of his dumb stories that he merged into one book through.
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Raiad posted:given how one of the gay(?) bar men who hired kvothe took him aside to tell him that the only three professions available to women are seamstress, noblewoman or prostitute and that he shouldn't begrudge her for taking the third option i think creepy male feminist bait seems about right ...aren't there women at Hogwarts U though? Like, they're studying trades, not just academics (which leads to Kvothe dashingly saving one from a fire, no less). Hell, one's working as a loan shark no less. Like even in the Medieval era women worked more than those three jobs and Rothfuss clearly has a more egalitarian society than that built up ManlyGrunting fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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pseudanonymous posted:They probably want to gently caress D***** like everyone else in the books. I definitely trust Patty Roth to write delicately about kvothe's love interest being a hooker. By not writing at all
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I’m wondering what the reading experience of the third book will be if it ever comes out. I read the first two almost 10 years ago now and wasn’t very critical of them. I enjoyed the first and rushed through the second but did start to question things during the Felurian and Adem sections which felt overindulgent and disingenuous. But this thread and other like it have revealed weaknesses in Rothfuss’ writing that I’d never noticed before so I’m not sure if I’d enjoy the third. Though the amount of action that the plot would need to get through to deliver the conclusion of the story would probably provide enough narrative thrust to make it interesting.
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Kchama posted:This doesn't really make sense considering that there's women at the University. What, are they learning magic for funsies, or is it how they're going to become better seamstresses or prostitutes? I think the idea is that they firmly fall into the category of "noblewoman," given how much Kvothe whines at length about how everyone else had wealthy families to pay for not-wizard school and he alone had to work for a living
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Ccs posted:I’m wondering what the reading experience of the third book will be if it ever comes out. I read the first two almost 10 years ago now and wasn’t very critical of them. I enjoyed the first and rushed through the second but did start to question things during the Felurian and Adem sections which felt overindulgent and disingenuous. But this thread and other like it have revealed weaknesses in Rothfuss’ writing that I’d never noticed before so I’m not sure if I’d enjoy the third. Though the amount of action that the plot would need to get through to deliver the conclusion of the story would probably provide enough narrative thrust to make it interesting. the elegant sound of the unwritten word
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pentyne posted:the river-smooth, sunbeam sound of the unwritten word
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I’m still laughing at the extreme impotence of knowing your publisher just called you out about not actually doing your job and not saying anything in response
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Daric posted:I’m still laughing at the extreme impotence of knowing your publisher just called you out about not actually doing your job and not saying anything in response saying something in response would require writing
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Daric posted:I’m still laughing at the extreme impotence of knowing your publisher just called you out about not actually doing your job and not saying anything in response There's got to be a point where even his hardcore fans just go "WHERES THE loving BOOK PAT" coming up soon. He can only go dark for so long and is ironically benefiting from all the con cancellations where if he showed up every question would be "so, your editor, what's going on there?"
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Raiad posted:I think the idea is that they firmly fall into the category of "noblewoman," given how much Kvothe whines at length about how everyone else had wealthy families to pay for not-wizard school and he alone had to work for a living But 'noblewoman' as a 'job' would not involve becoming a wizard either. Unless the idea is just 'rich women can do whatever they want' and in which can you'd expect to see more women at Hogwarts, not less.
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Patware posted:the river-smooth, sunbeam sound of the unwritten word
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Solice Kirsk posted:Third book will have a ton of purple prose describing breakfast cereal if it ever comes out. You jest but I just heard some people read a section of the Captain Crunch chapter of The Cryptonomicon and it was fan-tastic. Bumped the book up to buy-it-if-I-see-it levels.
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"It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a book that is waiting to flop."
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Hughmoris posted:"It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a book that is waiting to flop." The book would sell like gangbusters if it were released in the next couple years. I think Rothfuss is just terminally afraid of bad reviews, and lacks the willpower to not read them.
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Name of the Wind: 250k in length Wise Man's Fear: 370k in Length I don't know how much ground he has to cover in Doors of Stone, perhaps he could write a monstrous 600k two-parter, but loving anything would suffice. Nobody would be making GBS threads in his cereal if his books were stand-alone, but it was decision for Book One to be Chapter One.
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How does he even finish this? He's had that many words and still nothing relating to the supposed "main plot" even gets covered.
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Dienes posted:The book would sell like gangbusters if it were released in the next couple years. I just liked that line but you are correct, the book will print money when it's released. Whether it's good or not is a different story.
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