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Dienes posted: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....
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Oct 31, 2017 22:59
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Well, he's too fat for autofellatio.
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Nov 1, 2017 08:48
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Reading about this clownsnack makes me feel so much better about my own writing. If THIS motherfucker can get published then surely I can. Right? RIGHT?? 
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Nov 1, 2017 15:53
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I do wonder how he got his book deal in the first place...
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Nov 1, 2017 18:11
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TV Zombie posted:I do wonder how he got his book deal in the first place... A publisher apparently correctly reading the market.
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TV Zombie posted:I do wonder how he got his book deal in the first place... It was a great pickup for whoever made that signing. http://thewertzone.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-sff-all-time-sales-list.html EDIT: But he won the Writers of the Future Contest in 2002 with the fake-Ruh revenge pieces of Wise Man's Fear, as "The Road to Levinshir", and that got him in front of publishers. ulmont fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Reading about this clownsnack makes me feel so much better about my own writing. If THIS motherfucker can get published then surely I can. Right? RIGHT?? That's not how it works and it will make you insane if you let yourself think about it in these terms
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Nov 1, 2017 23:04
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:That's not how it works and it will make you insane if you let yourself think about it in these terms
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Nov 1, 2017 23:13
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http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/patrick-rothfuss-fantasy-next-superstar.html lots of sucking off going on in this article but there's a few gemsquote:Shortly before his first book was published in 2007, fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss promised an interviewer that fans wouldn’t have to wait much longer to learn the fate of Kvothe, the roguish magician at the center of his story. He’d already written the next two books in the trilogy and would release them over the next two years. “You know the sophomore slump?” Rothfuss asked. “I don’t have to worry about that.” 
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Nov 2, 2017 02:02
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That was painful to read. "How dare you want the third book of this incredibly hyped up trilogy? You DARE question the awkward metaphor lord? You will be cast into the lake of fire!"
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Nov 2, 2017 02:41
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:That was painful to read. Not as painful as the mention that his two lovely books sit atop lists of the best fantasy books ever written. When someone like Rothfuss is seen as one of the best (fantasy) writers today/ever Trump being president seems only logical because who else would be the most powerful person on earth in such a hosed up reality?
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/patrick-rothfuss-fantasy-next-superstar.html lots of sucking off going on in this article but there's a few gems Renowned fantasy author and male feminist rothfart wants his fans to gently caress off and die because it's so wearying guys. kay.
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:That's not how it works and it will make you insane if you let yourself think about it in these terms Sham bam bamina! posted:I think the suicide smiley was an acknowledgement of that. v  v
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Nov 2, 2017 04:23
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If the Kingkiller Duo is on top of Fantasy Books list, what are some good reads on that same list? Looking to read something new.
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TV Zombie posted:If the Kingkiller Duo is on top of Fantasy Books list, what are some good reads on that same list? Looking to read something new. The Book of the New Sun.
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Nov 2, 2017 14:52
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The best three fantasy series written are The Lord of the Rings, Gormenghast, and The Book of the New Sun and I haven't even come close to finishing Gormenghast, it's that good really
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TV Zombie posted:If the Kingkiller Duo is on top of Fantasy Books list, what are some good reads on that same list? Looking to read something new. The "Best of Fantasy" lists that Kingkiller is on are basically nerd blogs writing down Lord of the Rings plus some bestseller crap from the last ten or fifteen years or so. Most people who read fantasy have goldfish memory in addition to clam chowder for brains. Gollancz's Fantasy Masterworks series provides a pretty solid list. You can quibble with some of the entries (I'd remove Martin's Fevre Dream, for example) but they're all mostly good and won't waste your time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Masterworks
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Nov 2, 2017 17:37
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my bony fealty posted:The best three fantasy series written are The Lord of the Rings, Gormenghast, and The Book of the New Sun Here's a fun fact about that Buzzfeed list that Rothfuss is on: Lord of the Rings ranks 4th below both Kingkiller and Song of Ice and Fire, as well as a Sanderson series I'm not familiar with. I'm not even that deep into fantasy and even I know that's wrong.
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Nov 2, 2017 18:56
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It also lists the Sword of Truth pretty high, which tells me that list is poo poo.
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calandryll posted:It also lists the Sword of Truth pretty high, which tells me that list is poo poo.
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Nov 2, 2017 20:41
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Buzzfeed is the video game journalism of regular journalism.
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Yeah Im not gonna pay too much attention to a list that has Eragon above Gormenghast Rothfuss sucks anyone mentioned that recently. When I was visiting my hometown a few months ago it warmed my heart to hear my friend's sisters, both big fantasy nerds, complaining about their dumbass male friends telling them they had to read The Name of the Wind and one of em said she tried and it was bad male wish fulfillment garbage. Thats actually what sealed the deal for me that I wasn't gonna read them books.
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my bony fealty posted:Yeah Im not gonna pay too much attention to a list that has Eragon above Gormenghast It's Twilight for boys.
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my bony fealty posted:Yeah Im not gonna pay too much attention to a list that has Eragon above Gormenghast 
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my bony fealty posted:Yeah Im not gonna pay too much attention to a list that has Eragon FTFY I met Paolini in passing at a book signing in the Bozeman Costco once. Smug little gently caress gave me the instant, "ew, no"s.
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Nov 3, 2017 01:32
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I posted this in the PYF bad book thread not too long ago but my favorite Eragon thing is that large sections of the sequel were dedicated to Paolini jacking himself off about how smart he is for being an atheist, with one particular part having the ancient wise sage dragon explaining to Eragon that there is no afterlife because consciousness is a process of the physical body and there’s no existence outside of that material body. Paolini was in such a rush to enlighten us that he had apparently forgotten that the villain of the first novel was a necromancer whose powers were derived from the spirits of the dead.
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"Consciousness is a bodily process" in this magic world where dragons can dump their consciousness into magical gem-hearts or some poo poo. Ok, Paolini, got it. There's like a whole chapter in Eldest dedicated to Eragon and his cousin stripteasing each other while camping out in a monster cave under the pretense of "showing off battlescars." It was really gay and really sheds light on my taste in books while I was a teenager. I loved hearing about how he was the youngest published fantasy author and it was almost inspirational to me as a kid, until I discovered his family owned the publishing company or some poo poo so it was literally just nepotism. Basically I love talking poo poo about Eragon even more than I love talking poo poo about Rothfart's books.
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It's been years, but I remember one really great screw-up where he tried to get into the magical mechanics of "The Ancient Language" ( ) and it turned out that the relevant grammar wasn't just English but completely misunderstood English. Like, a spell backfired because Paolini thinks that the passive voice is the past tense or something.Edit: found it, he thinks a noun is a verb quote:According to Paolini, when Eragon said: "Atra gülai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr" in the first book, it translated to: "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be a shield from misfortune." He intended to say "be shielded" instead of "be a shield," and Oromis corrects his mistake in a rather puzzling manner. According to the elf, "Atra gülai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse sköliro frá rauthr," is the correct blessing and it translates to: "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune." His solution was to add the suffix –o to "skölir" in order to make it past tense. The only problem with this is that "be shielded" is not a past tense verb; it's a passive voice infinitive instead. Even more troubling is that "shield" in the phrase "be a shield" is a noun, not a verb, which means it can't be conjugated to be past tense anyway. So essentially what the –o suffix is actually doing is turning a noun form into a verb and making it passive by putting it into its perfect participle form. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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You guys are reminding me that I have the first two Eragon books signed before I realized what a poo poo pile they were. In my defense, i was like 13.
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I just noticed that Buzzfeed list has the Riftwar Cycle as a single entry, while it has two different Robin Hobbs trilogies as their own entries.  Sure, some of the Riftwar books are petty bad (looking at you, Shards of a Broken Crown) but the original Riftwar trilogy is still a solid, if dated, series. Kelewan is also more fleshed out and detailed of a world than the one in Kingkiller and Kelewan isn't even the main setting of the books (except for the Daughter of the Empire trilogy but Feist didn't write those). Betrayal at Krondor was also a fun game. Buggy as hell though. HIJK posted:It's Twilight for boys. Author is a hack? Check. Happened to be in the right place at the right time? Check. Pathetic amounts of wish fulfillment oozes from the books? Check. Fanfic based on it has become an even bigger hit? ...not yet. 3 out of 4 is close enough.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Author is a hack? Check. I mean, it's already essentially Star Wars alt universe fanfic. That said, Paradise Valley is a lovely place, and I highly suggest visiting if you have the opportunity. It's not surprising at all that someone was inspired to write a fantasy novel by living there. That part of Montana is like Lord of the Rings, only accessible by roads (mostly).
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i am paolini
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I posted this in the PYF bad book thread not too long ago but my favorite Eragon thing is that large sections of the sequel were dedicated to Paolini jacking himself off about how smart he is for being an atheist, with one particular part having the ancient wise sage dragon explaining to Eragon that there is no afterlife because consciousness is a process of the physical body and there’s no existence outside of that material body. Boy, they should have fired him for that blunder!
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Nov 3, 2017 09:25
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I'm so mad that Eragon exists.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Author is a hack? Check. It might not be a fan fiction, but it's almost certainly a D&D player character story. So that hits the mark close enough. the old ceremony posted:i am paolini More like the old paolinimony.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I just noticed that Buzzfeed list has the Riftwar Cycle as a single entry, while it has two different Robin Hobbs trilogies as their own entries. Feist is a pretty bad author, the Riftwar books are straight up transcription of tabletop RPG sessions fiction (Feist was part of an early third party D&D publisher) and the only reason Kelewan is interesting is because its a wholesale ripoff of Tekumel. Feist admitted it, but he still claims he was unaware when he wrote Magician. I don't buy it. Betrayal at Krondor is a good video game though Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Nov 3, 2017 15:24
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Cragon would be a better name for a book than Eragon
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Lightning Lord posted:Betrayal at Krondor is a good video game though Great game, but so difficult 14 year old me never beat it. Even cheating. This was before google when I could look up a FAQ for which route to take to not instantly get murdered, or what the secret is for a particular odd encounter.
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Eragon is another example of an author with potential getting ruined by hype. There's some decent stuff in the first book (like the dead baby) and if someone had mentored Paolini early on I think he could have been something special. But that didn't happen, so...
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