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Aughhh. Rothfuss, make up your mind if Kvothe isn't a Smooth Charmer or 'shy around women'. Though I don't know why Fela (IIRC? It's been a few pages and none of the girls at school except Auri have any individual personality) even stands Kvothe after his whole "Maybe you should go rape her in an alley so she'll be justified in being upset at you raping you raper!"
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Oct 23, 2017 01:59
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PJOmega posted:The audiobook is beautifully narrated and sounds lovely on first pass. Beyond that I got nothing. Nick Podehl, the audiobook narrator for Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear, also narrated Robert Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky, a book originally serialized in Boys' Life. So my initial impression of his voice, for the half of Name of the Wind that I bothered to listen to, was still the most in-to-Scouting Boy Scout to ever be a Scout (on Ganymede). I kind of liked Tarbean, though? I may have just hated Kvothe enough that I really enjoyed hearing him suffer, and was super looking forward to Kvothe going on to Wizard School having learned the lessons of street life (i.e., if you don't like someone, destroy everything they love and light them on fire). The fact that he didn't solve the rest of his problems with brutal violence and spent the remainder of the book at wizard school is really disappointing.
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Vavrek posted:I may have just hated Kvothe enough that I really enjoyed hearing him suffer, and was super looking forward to Kvothe going on to Wizard School having learned the lessons of street life (i.e., if you don't like someone, destroy everything they love and light them on fire). Definitely would have been better. Sociopath Harry Potter is a good concept.
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Oct 23, 2017 06:03
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M_Gargantua posted:Definitely would have been better. Sociopath Harry Potter is a good concept. This already exists. It's called Wizard People, Dear Reader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVht51JhVk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_People,_Dear_Reader
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Oct 23, 2017 06:59
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"It's beautifully written" is the lamest, laziest way to praise the book.
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Oct 23, 2017 10:40
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Atlas Hugged posted:"It's beautifully written" is the lamest, laziest way to praise the book. It's also false.
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Oct 23, 2017 12:21
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M_Gargantua posted:Definitely would have been better. Sociopath Harry Potter is a good concept. Ambrose is one of the biggest reasons why I think it was originally suppose to be a high school story or Kvothe was suppose to be older. Dude does not treat Kvothe like the little brat he is, but like someone his own age being a poo poo.
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Oct 23, 2017 13:48
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A human heart posted:It's also false. Maybe that person considers it to be beautiful like a Jackson Pollock painting. 
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Oct 23, 2017 22:54
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e: nvm i found it tar bean
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Oct 24, 2017 06:21
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At least the series spawned a rad game: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LFA7QFK/ I've played it a handful of times and it's pretty fun!
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Oct 25, 2017 01:47
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Cicero posted:At least the series spawned a rad game: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LFA7QFK/ Wow, 41 bux for some cardboard and random wooden blocks?
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Oct 25, 2017 02:34
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Cicero posted:At least the series spawned a rad game: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LFA7QFK/ It's a beautiful game.
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Oct 25, 2017 02:52
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The previous thread made me go through memory lane on all the terrible fantasy I read as a child. I still haven't managed to dethrone joint 1st of TWMF and The Redemption of Althalus. Any news on book 3?
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Oct 25, 2017 03:38
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Brinner posted:Any news on book 3? he wrote it 10 years ago so any day now!
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Oct 25, 2017 10:16
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Brinner posted:Any news on book 3? Day after the last star burns out
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Oct 25, 2017 10:53
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So I decided I'm going to the King Killer party on Saturday. It's the second party I'm going to that night so I'll be rocking a light up suit since the other party's theme is "Prom" (ugh, got lovely themed parties this year). Gonna just say I'm a Chandrian because no one can say I'm wrong since they're never really discussed in detail. I'll post pics of my dorky idiot friends.
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Oct 25, 2017 13:03
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PJOmega posted:It's a beautiful game. The Pizza guy said it so you know its true.
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Solice Kirsk posted:So I decided I'm going to the King Killer party on Saturday. Sorry to hear about this. Hope everything is okay.
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Oct 25, 2017 14:38
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TV Zombie posted:Rothfuss on the writing process: This is supposed to be about his writing process but he spends 90% of the video plugging some charity website, so he can't even get that right. 
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Oct 25, 2017 14:50
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SpacePig posted:Sorry to hear about this. Hope everything is okay. It's an incredibly bad idea for a theme, but knowing my friends I doubt anyone besides the host is going to follow the rules. Especially since maybe like 4 of us have read it and it's just him that's obsessed with it. We'll be playing Tak though. We always do towards the end of the night.
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Oct 25, 2017 15:00
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Solice Kirsk posted:We'll be playing Tak though. We always do towards the end of the night. So you've played it before? Is it as beautiful as the box claims?
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Oct 25, 2017 15:07
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I actually made a sort of effort post in the last thread. Well, effort for my lovely posting anyways. And apparent;y I can't quote closed threads...here, just have the pictures:  "Takky"    edit: It's kinda fun if you're drinking and not taking it seriously. It's basically connect four with a few more rules. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 15:27
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:This is supposed to be about his writing process but he spends 90% of the video plugging some charity website, so he can't even get that right. Pretty sure it's because he doesn't have a process to really talk about. That'd explain where book 3 is.
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Kchama posted:Pretty sure it's because he doesn't have a process to really tak about. That'd explain where book 3 is.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:44
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I'm wondering if he planned out the story to be a trilogy originally or just made the first book, saw that it was financially(if not critically) successful and tried to continue from there, and said it was a trilogy just to say something about his work.
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Oct 25, 2017 19:48
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Oct 25, 2017 19:50
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There is no such thing as a single book fantasy story anymore. Everything is always a series. Always. Take that self contained story poo poo and throw it onto your pile of garbage literature.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:07
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TV Zombie posted:I'm wondering if he planned out the story to be a trilogy originally or just made the first book, saw that it was financially(if not critically) successful and tried to continue from there, and said it was a trilogy just to say something about his work.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:16
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Sham bam bamina! posted:He hyped it from the beginning as a trilogy that he had already written. I have been writing! My modem is broken and my phone eats half the pages I write, including all the pages I've written here. I'll try this one more time.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:28
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Solice Kirsk posted:There is no such thing as a single book fantasy story anymore. Everything is always a series. Always. Take that self contained story poo poo and throw it onto your pile of garbage literature. If its a single book it cant possibly be genre fiction so it cant possibly be fantasy.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:04
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It's because no one book could ever do proper justice to the rich worldbuilding that fantasy demands.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:11
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SpacePig posted:I have been writing! My modem is broken and my phone eats half the pages I write, including all the pages I've written here. I'll try this one more time.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:12
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the final book will be posted accidentally in the great race space and then rothfuss will be banned
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Oct 25, 2017 21:13
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I thought of an ending to the series last night. Kvothe finally gets off his rear end and tracks the Chandrian to a palace. He confronts them, the Amyr show up and a big fight happens. The king, who secretly funds the Amyr, is killed in the process. Kvothe manages to kill the weakest of the Chandrian. After the fight he wants to join the Amyr's badass group but they're like "lol no" and peace out. Kvothe gets blamed for killing the king and gets all depressed since his quest is over and he wasn't accepted by the badass guys. So he opens an inn. Denna does not appear in the book.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:42
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The real reason why it's taking so long is that Rothfuss is trying to make sure he has his whole trilogy of trilogies worked out and doesn't want to hurt his perfect worldbuilding by having to retcon anything after the fact or possibly just as bad having to sacrifice some of his genius brilliance by going with a sub par ending to not ruin his luscious world.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:13
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:The real reason why it's taking so long is that Rothfuss is trying to make sure he has his whole trilogy of trilogies worked out and doesn't want to hurt his perfect worldbuilding by having to retcon anything after the fact or possibly just as bad having to sacrifice some of his genius brilliance by going with a sub par ending to not ruin his luscious world. Yeah he's let a bunch of nerds pour over every inch of those two books for a decade if he retcons anything it is going to be a poo poo show. I almost feel bad for the guy.
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Oct 25, 2017 23:17
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Still waiting for Kvothe to kill an angel.
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Oct 26, 2017 00:55
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The "unreliable narrator" and the "it was all rumors" thing are real get out of jail free cards for the series. If Kvothe doesn't actually get around to doing some of the things, he can say it was somebody else but attributed to him by rumor. If things are really unsalvagable Rothfuss can pull the unreliable narrator card. Also the longer between books, the more anticipation fuels continued interest. A finished series doesn't keep fans on tenderhooks and checking every new blog post the way an unfinished one does.
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Ccs posted:on tenderhooks 
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