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Can you imagine that woman finding out that dude that kept putting those creepy poorly written love letters into her locker is now a famous feminist writer?
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Rothfuss has reviewed hundreds of books on Goodreads, and those that he's bothered to give a star rating are nearly always 5-stars. It really reeks of someone trying to suck up to other authors. One of his 5-star reviews is for The Giving Tree. He has a couple sentences on how the boy is a selfish little poo poo but, hey, the tree is happy, life lessons are complex, the book is ambiguous for how we are supposed to take it. One of his 1-star reviews is for another children's book, Eloise. He detests the naughty little girl and goes on for multiple paragraphs on how she's a bitch.
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Oct 29, 2017 18:00
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Dienes posted:One of his 5-star reviews is for The Giving Tree. He has a couple sentences on how the boy is a selfish little poo poo but, hey, the tree is happy, life lessons are complex, the book is ambiguous for how we are supposed to take it.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:02
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Dienes posted:Rothfuss has reviewed hundreds of books on Goodreads, and those that he's bothered to give a star rating are nearly always 5-stars. It really reeks of someone trying to suck up to other authors. Wooooooooooooooooooooooow. quote:You know what Eloise reminds me of? She reminds me of a stereotypical American. The sort of American that people believe in over in Germany and Spain and China. She is loud, spoiled, rude, and entitled. Also somebody touched the poop.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:50
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my hate for rothfuss has become quite personal i'm going to find him
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Oct 29, 2017 20:54
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the old ceremony posted:my hate for rothfuss has become quite personal He's the gooniest loving goon. I wonder what his screenname is
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Oct 29, 2017 20:59
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PJOmega posted:He's the gooniest loving goon. I wonder what his screenname is
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Oct 29, 2017 21:00
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Dienes posted:There's one where he goes on about punctuation for 8 pages using the phrase "You smell so good its making me stupid" for the example. Pat Rothfuss posted:Then Sarah looks at me with lust in her eyes and says, “You smell so good. It’s making me stupid.” 
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Oct 29, 2017 21:28
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PJOmega posted:He's the gooniest loving goon. I wonder what his screenname is Aatrek A true feminist just like his hero Joss Wheton. 
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Oct 29, 2017 23:24
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I find myself shocked at the lengthy reviews of both books but then he continues his review of Eloise after calling her just a little bitch with more words that just hurt my soul.
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Oct 30, 2017 00:39
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A human heart posted:I don't think the guy who made a stupid rap musical for dumbass rich people is brilliant at music. Reminder that Miranda rewrote the lyrics to Insane in the Brain to be about Tim Kaine and was convinced this would get people to vote for Clinton. Just because the Rock and the crab songs in Moana were good doesn't give him a pass. He is extreme trash. Dienes posted:Rothfuss has reviewed hundreds of books on Goodreads, and those that he's bothered to give a star rating are nearly always 5-stars. It really reeks of someone trying to suck up to other authors. It would be hard to suck up to noted dead person Shel Silverstein but I bet Rothfuss would try. Aside from his creeper double standards, his understanding of literature is extremely mechanical and relies entirely on the surface aspects and rote plot events of everything. Not surprising.
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Oct 30, 2017 00:51
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TV Zombie posted:I find myself shocked at the lengthy reviews of both books but then he continues his review of Eloise after calling her just a little bitch with more words that just hurt my soul. Male feminist Patrick Rothfuss calls a little girl under the age of 10 a "little bitch." He's a massive piece of poo poo.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:22
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yeah the more i read about him the more i think he's not just a bad writer but an actual repulsive individual like i'd rather let grrm babysit my kids than rothfuck
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Oct 30, 2017 05:37
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Eh, Hamilton was pretty clever and different so I'll give it a pass. What we should be taking away from the Kingkiller adaptation is that it's entirely new material designed to cash off the franchise and not the actual books, which makes me suspect someone on that team figured out the books were poo poo flavored poo poo in a poo poo sandwich with extra poo poo on the side.
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Oct 30, 2017 06:45
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It doesn't matter how the show turns out either. Rothfuss fans and apologists, as well as the legion of people who think Hamilton is awe-inspiring, will hail it as The Show To Watch When GoT Ends regardless. If we're lucky everyone involved with the project will decide to ham it up, Hercules and Xena style, and we'll end up with another mediocre show like Legend of the Seeker. If we're *really* lucky Rothfuss with throw a fit and demand the show be Game Of Thrones 2: (a beautiful) Game Harder, causing the show to never get produced and Rothfuss to be exposed as the mediocre writer who happened to have a book in the right place at the right time that he is. But since the show is just based in the world (which lets idiots like Lin-Manuel talk about how wonderful Rothfuss's middle school student D&D campaign-grade worldbuilding is) and lets them actually write stuff, it'll probably get made as long as Rothfuss is just there to get paid more money than he deserves.
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Oct 30, 2017 07:34
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:What we should be taking away from the Kingkiller adaptation is that it's entirely new material designed to cash off the franchise and not the actual books, which makes me suspect someone on that team figured out the books were poo poo flavored poo poo in a poo poo sandwich with extra poo poo on the side. I figured it was more along the lines of "Wow, Pat, can't wait to do this show with you! Okay, so let's plan it out. How many seasons do we need? Three? How does this thing end, anyway?" "......." "Right. You have no idea. gently caress it, let's just make it about some bards or something."
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Oct 30, 2017 12:34
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Eh, Hamilton was pretty clever and different so I'll give it a pass. That's wishful thinking, it's actually because there are still plans for a movie series that's a direct adaption.
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Oct 30, 2017 12:57
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Solice Kirsk posted:Can you imagine that woman finding out that dude that kept putting those creepy poorly written love letters into her locker is now a famous Fixed!
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Oct 30, 2017 13:21
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Hughlander posted:Fixed! A """famous""" """"""feminist"""""" """"""""""""writer"""""""""""". On a different note, did anybody watch his monster show about the mothman? Was it any good, or was it as stupid as I figured it would be?
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Oct 30, 2017 14:51
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SpacePig posted:A """famous""" """"""feminist"""""" """"""""""""writer"""""""""""". Unfortunately you have to give him famous writer. I was at BN over the weekend and there were two shelves devoted to his two books.
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Oct 30, 2017 15:31
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One of my favorite recent Rothfuss moments was when he went into some bookstore, started signing books by other authors with backhanded compliments, then posted to brag about it on his own Twitter. I can't seem to Google Image it quickly and I don't use Twitter but the old thread captured the moment: the guy whose book he soiled did not at all look happy to be in the picture. Maybe it had to do with Rothfuss' masculine musk.
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Oct 30, 2017 19:59
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Hammer Bro. posted:Maybe it had to do with Rothfuss' masculine musk. Now I'm imagining him furtively scribbling backhanded compliments in books, then, glancing over his shoulder to see if anyone is looking, he takes the dust jacket off the book and carefully rubs it beneath his armpits, making sure his musk fully penetrates the fabric of the cover. He has left his mark. He is pleased.
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Oct 30, 2017 21:09
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Now I really wish I had picked up a signed copy of TNOTW at my local BN so I could scribble over the signature myself.
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Oct 30, 2017 23:00
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Old thread's discussion starts here.
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Oct 30, 2017 23:18
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Evil Fluffy posted:It doesn't matter how the show turns out either. Rothfuss fans and apologists, as well as the legion of people who think Hamilton is awe-inspiring, will hail it as The Show To Watch When GoT Ends regardless. Okay but Xena was amazing and if we got something in the style of Xena it would be awesome. (but we won't because Rothfuss is allergic to writing interesting female characters.)
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Oct 31, 2017 00:51
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TV Zombie posted:Now I really wish I had picked up a signed copy of TNOTW at my local BN so I could scribble over the signature myself. If you can get something signed by Rothfuss for cheap, flip that poo poo on eBay. I made like $500 on some books and stuff last year.
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Oct 31, 2017 01:03
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Reene posted:Okay but Xena was amazing and if we got something in the style of Xena it would be awesome. (but we won't because Rothfuss is allergic to writing interesting female characters.) As long as it's Xena pre-Christian resurrection insanity, sure.
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Oct 31, 2017 01:38
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Old thread's discussion starts here. God, I forgot about his writing "Good endings take time" in Lies of Locke Lamora. That's got to be the worst one.
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Oct 31, 2017 01:41
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Reene posted:Okay but Xena was amazing and if we got something in the style of Xena it would be awesome. (but we won't because Rothfuss is allergic to writing interesting female characters.) taking bets to male feminist rothfart whining that the  in his tv adaptation are "little bitches"
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Oct 31, 2017 02:04
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Remember when he responded to himself asking himself how many times he's read his own book?
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Oct 31, 2017 04:16
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Srice posted:That's wishful thinking, it's actually because there are still plans for a movie series that's a direct adaption. What the hell is movie-worthy about this series? It would have to be like the Hunger Games where you could tell whoever was writing the movie was desperately trying to de-stupidify the books.
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Oct 31, 2017 05:13
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if only we could have had philip seymour kvotheman
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Oct 31, 2017 08:15
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Solice Kirsk posted:Remember when he responded to himself asking himself how many times he's read his own book? Wait? What? Was this a FAQ for his blog? This makes no sense to do..
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Oct 31, 2017 16:51
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TV Zombie posted:Wait? What? Was this a FAQ for his blog? This makes no sense to do.. https://twitter.com/PatrickRothfuss/status/860538593890234371
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Oct 31, 2017 17:19
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This is a cry for help if I have ever seen one.
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Oct 31, 2017 18:45
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I was content to believe Rothfart was just a hacky author with delusions of grandeur, but now I'm convinced that he's just a terrible person who just happened to write some mediocre fantasy novels out of his spank material.
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Oct 31, 2017 19:02
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I just lurk here, but this is 100% total bullshit. This would mean he has read his own book almost 3 times a month since release. No idea why but this triggers me harder than any of the other Rothfuss bullshit posted in this thread.
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Oct 31, 2017 19:08
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The only way this isn't the most "what the gently caress bullshit" is if he considers doing writing passes as "reading." For a good author I could see redoing paragraphs a few dozen times, even if it's only editing a few words at a time. Of course, I don't think Rothfuss' writing regimine is quite so thorough, so what in the ever loving gently caress is this bullshit?
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Oct 31, 2017 19:13
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Even jivjov only claims to have read it dozens of times, not hundreds. It's honestly perplexing unless, like you said, he considers writing and proofreading as reading.
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Oct 31, 2017 19:23
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:I just lurk here, but this is 100% total bullshit. This would mean he has read his own book almost 3 times a month since release. It bothers you because its masturbatory. Proudly masturbatory. He also says he's read 200+ books a year from 2011-2014, 149 books in 2015, and a meager 62 books in 2016. This is all on top of the hundreds of re-readings of NotW. To be fair, some are children's books and manga, which would be quicker/easier than a novel, but 2014 he said he read 367, so.... Lightning Lord posted:It would be hard to suck up to noted dead person Shel Silverstein but I bet Rothfuss would try. Well, yeah, that's a given. I picked it just for the comparison to his Eloise review. But its pretty obvious elsewhere. He has a whole shelf on GoodReads titled "Books I would blurb" as if its a standing offer.
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