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BananaNutkins posted:Was there ANY movement on that plot line in book 2? I vaguely recall maybe the lightning tree bandit thing being connected in some vague hand wavy way, but I got distracted when Kvothfuss started having sex with his karate instructor. The bandit leader literally being one of the Seven isn't "vague and hand wavy"
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BananaNutkins posted:Was there ANY movement on that plot line in book 2? I vaguely recall maybe the lightning tree bandit thing being connected in some vague hand wavy way, but I got distracted when Kvothfuss started having sex with his karate instructor.
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# ? May 15, 2016 04:38 |
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I'm gonna have to read WMF again, I guess, because I don't remember that at all. I don't remember most of that much at all, honestly.
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# ? May 15, 2016 05:49 |
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SpacePig posted:I'm gonna have to read WMF again, I guess, because I don't remember that at all. I don't remember most of that much at all, honestly. I have a better idea. You could read literally anything else. If you want to read page after page of a story with no stable story arc and a bunch of weird and random poo poo happening just read one of the Dwarf Fortress LPs.
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# ? May 15, 2016 06:00 |
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But the tree lies to make the worst possible outcome happen. So it may or may not have been Cinder or whoever and Denna may not be being abused by her, probably Chandrian, benefactor. And we'll never know because the last book will never come out and if it does it will never be mentioned directly again. This was a part of the story that Bast, who apparently knows the story already, didn't know because Kvothe didn't think it important until he decided to tell "The Girl Creeping Chronicles" story of his life.
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# ? May 15, 2016 06:36 |
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SpacePig posted:I'm gonna have to read WMF again, I guess, because I don't remember that at all. I don't remember most of that much at all, honestly. The only memorable things were the things we hated about it. Book two is just a rambling extension of book one with more flaws and less conflict.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:35 |
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The tree is good. Or at least the idea of the tree
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# ? May 16, 2016 00:40 |
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Everything about the tree was great. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
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# ? May 16, 2016 04:01 |
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Benson Cunningham posted:JivJov is crossposting on reddit. The OP that this links to is the section of the book my wife came in on while I was listening to the audiobook. She's still making lute jokes a few years later because of how bad she thought the writing was.
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# ? May 16, 2016 04:24 |
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Karnegal posted:The OP that this links to is the section of the book my wife came in on while I was listening to the audiobook. She's still making lute jokes a few years later because of how bad she thought the writing was. If the books are modeled after D&D campaigns I guess it makes sense they'd be fixated on lute.
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# ? May 16, 2016 18:57 |
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Patrick Rothfuss guest starred in the most recent episode of Hello From the Magic Tavern. He was a pretty decent guest too. So check that out if you like?
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# ? May 16, 2016 19:02 |
You seem to be operating under the misapprehension that this is a fan thread.
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# ? May 16, 2016 19:05 |
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anilEhilated posted:You seem to be operating under the misapprehension that this is a fan thread. It's Rothfuss news, I figured some people would be interested...even if it's only jivjov.
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# ? May 16, 2016 19:20 |
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I think it's a fair enough split between the two, honestly. There's only, like, 8 people that post in this thread, and I think 2 or 3 of them are fans.
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# ? May 16, 2016 19:20 |
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It's also possible for him to be a good guest on a program and a lovely writer.
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# ? May 17, 2016 12:42 |
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Seems legit. https://twitter.com/patrickrothfuss/status/733575945949347840
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# ? May 20, 2016 13:42 |
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The pizza delivery driver smiled kindly. She was 21 (but thin and waifish as an 11 year old boy) and the victim of several rapes, probably. "That's a nice tak board," she smiled kindly with her eyes. I smiled kindly back.
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# ? May 20, 2016 13:56 |
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I'm convinced Rothfuss is shit_that_didn't_happen.txt in human form
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# ? May 20, 2016 14:40 |
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I feel that a likely candidate to feverishly follow Rothfuss would be a permanently stoned, 20 year old pizza driver.
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# ? May 20, 2016 15:59 |
Perhaps. Or perhaps Rothfuss snatched this poor sucker through the door and kept screaming, "CHECK OUT MY TAK BOARD! I INVENTED THIS GAME! HOW NICE IS THIS TAK BOARD?" Pizza guy was just trying to escape with his life.
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# ? May 20, 2016 16:15 |
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I had twelve dollars and fifty-nine cents in my belt purse. The driver, after complimenting my Tak board (which I had created myself, using the lost technique of Sanding Wood With Wang) required ten dollars and eighty-five cents in exchange for my deep dish pizza and a side of garlic breadsticks. I paid him ten dollars and eighty-five cents, which left me with only one dollar and seventy four cents. It is a misery to be poor, a misery you cannot understand unless you have found yourself with less than two dollars to tip a pizza-delivery driver. No. I did not tip. His glimpse of my Tak board should have been payment enough. I ate the pizza. Its flavor was one note, a note only lovers of music and haters of poetry could comprehend. A note that said "sad."
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# ? May 21, 2016 02:40 |
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Sheesh I better finish that update to bring things back on track.
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# ? May 21, 2016 12:05 |
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LET’S READ THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE CRITICALLY Part 24: “Foolishness. Hyperbole. Tripe." Chapter 56, “Patrons, Maids, and Metheglin,” continue immediately with Kvothe waiting for the judgement of his performance. Despite his fears, he gets his “pipes” which mark him as a master performer. The friend who is a nobleman (Simmon, aka the White Friend) is crying for the beauty of the song. Kvothe meets of course another elderly benefactor, and there’s a stream of congratulations from different audience members. Despite being so self-congratulory, the chapter still isn’t bad, because the self-aggrandizement is once again sublimated into dialogue. quote:“You’ll have to promise me,” a red-eyed Simmon said seriously, “That you will never play that song again without warning me first. Ever.” quote:
There is some incredibly insipid description of alcohol and drinking, appended at the end. Count Threpe, a patron of the arts, comes to congratulate Kvothe among many others: quote:“Does six strike you as a good number?” His finances are safe for the moment, but there’s still the question of Ambrose in the audience. He left before the performance ended, deeply shaken by the music. Kvothe, however, realises it was a side-effect off using magic to cut of a string from his lute, which was still not enough to stop Kvothe. He’s just that good, you know. Except with women. One of the well-wishers is the harpist after whom Kvothe lusted after earlier. She’s attracted to him, to which Kvothe is oblivious, much to the amusement of his friends. Besides, he wants to find “his Aloine,” the volunteer from the audience who sang with him. Kvothe circles around the Eolian’s floors, becoming more and more desperate, until he hears her voice again. quote:I didn’t really have any idea how I would find her. Some foolish, romantic part of me thought I would know her when I saw her. If she were half as radiant as her voice, she would shine like a candle in a dark room. quote:As I made my desolate way back to the stairs, my wise self took the opportunity to berate me. That is what comes of hope, it said. No good. Still, you are better having missed her. She could never have been equal to her voice. That voice, fair and terrible as burning silver, like moonlight on river stones, like a feather against your lips. With that Chapter 57, “Interlude—The Parts that Form Us” cuts to the present, and Kvothe is struggling how to describe the beauty of “the woman”. It’s Denna, by the way, if you were impatient. quote:“The trouble is, she is unlike anyone I have ever known. There was something intangible about her. Something compelling, like heat from a fire. She had a grace, a spark—” It turns out that Kvothe is hilariously petty about this topic, but this makes him intimidating to some. High-lighted are today's entries on Rothfussian Attributes: quote:“She…” Kvothe’s head was bowed so low he seemed to be speaking to his hands laying in his lap. “What am I doing?” He said faintly, as if his mouth was full of grey ash. “What good can come of this? How can I make any sense of her for you when I have never understood the least piece of her myself?” And with that we’re at Chapter 58, “Names for Beginning”. Kvothe “Aloine” was Denna, the girl she met six months ago while traveling to the University. He talks about how their immediate meeting was not out of a fairy-tale romance, because life is not “scripted”. The chapter is, however, mostly about Kvothe’s and Denna’s romantically charged exchange of wits. It’s rather inconsistent. After some initial, over-described awkwardness, Kvothe and Denna hit it off once again. Unfortunately, Denna is at the Eolian with one of Kvothe’s other friends. They finally exchange their names. Yes, they apparently skipped that during their first meeting. Denna introduces herself as Dianne, although the narrative always refers her to as Denna. It’s reasonably clever, since it established some dissonance between Kvothe-as-narrator and Kvothe-as-character. Kvothe leaves regretfully. Now this chapter actually ranks as good by the standards of Kingkiller, because there is a sense of forward movement and dynamism. Denna is one of those characters that are intriguing if only because they’re not. The romance in itself is bad, because it doesn't and will never go anywhere. This is because it is explicitly based on unattainability. But by normal standards, it’s still bad: quote:She smiled at me then. It was warm and sweet and shy, like a flower unfurling. It was friendly and honest and slightly embarrassed. When she smiled at me, I felt… This kind of passage seems to pop up now and then, if you recall Kvothe’s stunning anecdote about seeing a drug addict strip naked for money. Rothfuss also brings in the “ships passing in the night”: quote:“‘So we were ill-lit ships at night…’” I quoted. It’s actually from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See, this is something offensive, rather than probably made-up compliments about Kickstarter projects. quote:"Lucky for you I picked the Eolian for our entertainment tonight,” Sovoy said. “Otherwise you’d have had nothing but echoes and crickets to accompany you.” quote:Sovoy stood and shook my hand, no doubt eager to be rid of me. “Well done tonight, Kvothe. I’ll be seeing you.” Chapter 59, “All This Knowing”, is another short one (quoted here in it entirety), and it reaches for cosmic irony. But it’s no John Crowley. These fits of poesy are always ill-fitting. There's no need for it to be a separate chapter, since it creates a needless break in the narrative. quote:In the fullness of time, and with considerable help from Deoch and Wilem, I became drunk. JUST ROTHFUSS THINGS quote:While we were waiting for their drinks to come, I tried to peer curiously into my tankard, and found that doing so while it was sitting on the bar would require me to stand on my stool. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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I'll take a thousand pages of sniffs and braid tugging if it means I never have to hear about Denna again.
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# ? May 21, 2016 17:41 |
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Rothfuss posted:cool spring honey, clove, cardamom, cinnamon, pressed grape, burnt apple, sweet pear, and clear well water This sounds like a lovely craft beer.
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# ? May 21, 2016 17:42 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:This sounds like a lovely craft beer. I would give solid odds on that actually being his reference material there.
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# ? May 21, 2016 18:33 |
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'Cool spring honey'
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# ? May 21, 2016 18:34 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:This sounds like a lovely craft beer. neongrey posted:I would give solid odds on that actually being his reference material there. Funny you should mention that.
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# ? May 21, 2016 18:40 |
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BravestOfTheLamps, I just wanna thank you for your posts. You inspired me to read Umberto Eco and after finishing Name of the Rose, I raced through Baudolino (and then perhaps aptly spent the night in an archway of a Minster?) which I absolutely adored, and am now halfway through Foucault's Pendulum. It was amazing to me to see just how good a choice it was to compare Kvothe with Baudolino. Baudolino rules.
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# ? May 21, 2016 19:50 |
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a bit of a chemistry geek posted:But as I read more it all started sounding like a *huge* pain in the rear end. The books went on and on about about how I’m supposed to check the ph level and… I don’t know, hydroginize things or some poo poo like that. I hope his lecturers read this ans send him angry letters.
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# ? May 21, 2016 19:50 |
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So what he actually wanted to do was be a cook with glass measuring cups.
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# ? May 21, 2016 20:18 |
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Sounds a lot like what he's going through with his third book.
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# ? May 21, 2016 20:25 |
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" I originally went to College to study the equivalent of chemical engineering." What does that even mean?
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# ? May 21, 2016 20:46 |
Sounds like an euphemism for getting drunk.
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# ? May 21, 2016 21:15 |
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Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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# ? May 21, 2016 21:57 |
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quote:Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his B.S. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999 after spending nine years as an undergraduate Hooooooleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee poo poo.
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# ? May 22, 2016 00:35 |
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An English degree is in many ways the equivalent of a Chemical Engineering degree.
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# ? May 22, 2016 00:52 |
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Hate Fibration posted:Hooooooleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee poo poo. The fact he now teaches others is horrifying. Pretty sure at least one friend who I went to college with who became a doctor got through the entire thing in less than 9 goddamn years.
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# ? May 22, 2016 00:56 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:The fact he now teaches others is horrifying. Pretty sure at least one friend who I went to college with who became a doctor got through the entire thing in less than 9 goddamn years. If I do not gently caress up, that is how long my PhD* will take. That's incredible. Nine loving years for a BS in English. *Years in school from undergrad to PhD.
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I think the plagiarism is worse honestly
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