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Kchama posted:It's so pretentious and smug that basically in the end what can you expect but Smug And Pretentious Harry Potter? nothing wrong with being pretentious and smug as long as you can back it up (see: Nabokov)
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Tim Burns Effect posted:nothing wrong with being pretentious and smug as long as you can back it up (see: Nabokov)
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I know you* were all waiting** for Rothfuss to tell you to go vote: https://twitter.com/PatrickRothfuss/status/1059882211737001985 *Americans **You weren't
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ulmont posted:I know you* were all waiting** for Rothfuss to tell you to go vote: "I love it when you growl" -R.A. Salvatore response tweet. Ugh. Ugggggh.
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PJOmega posted:"I love it when you growl" -R.A. Salvatore response tweet. http://twitter.com/r_a_salvatore/status/1059883521555288064
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That reply tweet gave me chills. I keep hoping for that third book whenever there are new posts in here...cotdamnit.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Not gonna post it? This is all I see: 
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Reene posted:The difference between Lynch and Rothfuss is that Lynch can and has taken criticism about it and has actively tried to be better about things while acknowledging how flawed his past work has been. Rothfuss meanwhile stands as a monument to Look At What a Good Male Feminist I Am. Please try not to be shocked when I tell you that he adores totally-a-feminist Joss Whedon.
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Nov 7, 2018 00:36
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'You smell so good. Its stupid' is a reference to a blog post Pat wrote ages ago about not knowing how to phrase those words for best emphasis. I think it was supposed to show us what a wordsmith auteur he is that it takes him six hours to compose six words.
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BananaNutkins posted:'You smell so good. Its stupid' is a reference to a blog post Pat wrote ages ago about not knowing how to phrase those words for best emphasis. I think it was supposed to show us what a wordsmith auteur he is that it takes him six hours to compose six words. I hate that I know this, but it's something his wife said to him (or so he claims, anyhow).
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Ornamented Death posted:I hate that I know this, but it's something his wife said to him (or so he claims, anyhow). It's a beautiful
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Nov 7, 2018 02:08
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Bravest, critique the second book all over again
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Just remembered "the enigmatic Silent Doctor character present in many Modegan plays" and had a good chuckle to myself.
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mp5 posted:Bravest, critique The Slow Regard
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mp5 posted:Bravest, critique the second book They can post their progress in between probations.
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Didn't someone make a directory in the previous thread of section-by-section criticisms of this book? Can't find them and never finished reading them. They should be listed in the Bonfire thread OP.
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Ccs posted:Didn't someone make a directory in the previous thread of section-by-section criticisms of this book? Can't find them and never finished reading them. They should be listed in the Bonfire thread OP.
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Cool thanks. Those are some entertaining critiques, I like all the comparisons with Baudolino since I read that book a few months ago.
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His reviews got me to read Baudolino and it really does do what King Killer is trying and failing to do.
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Solice Kirsk posted:His reviews got me to read Baudolino and it really does do what King Killer is trying and failing to do. I wasn't aware the purpose of Kingkiller was anything besides "make Pat Rothfuss money so he can be pretentious and not get a real job,"
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That was just a happy perk.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I wasn't aware the purpose of Kingkiller was anything besides "make Pat Rothfuss money so he can be pretentious and not get a real job," Harsh, but fair, on professors.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I wasn't aware the purpose of Kingkiller was anything besides "make Pat Rothfuss money so he can be pretentious and not get a real job," How much money can he possibly have at this point, though? The dude does not strike me as a savvy investor and we know he lost a ton on that stupid table startup. He's been living the high on the hog nerdlife for like a decade, his book sales must be dwindling, and the TV series seems dead. Surely he will have to pay back his advance on the third book if he doesn't poo poo something out in the near future? Probably has more money than Lowtax, but not by much? 
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Nov 12, 2018 20:39
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Rime posted:the TV series seems dead
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Rime posted:How much money can he possibly have at this point, though? The dude does not strike me as a savvy investor and we know he lost a ton on that stupid table startup. He's been living the high on the hog nerdlife for like a decade, his book sales must be dwindling, and the TV series seems dead. Surely he will have to pay back his advance on the third book if he doesn't poo poo something out in the near future? Not going to happen. There's no sign that the book sales are slowing down, and there's no chance his publisher will make him pay back the advance as long as he's moving any copies at all. If they demand the advance back, that means the third book is officially canceled, and announcing/admitting that there's never going to be an ending would do more to kill sales of the first two than anything ever could. He's in the same boat as GRRM: their publishers may believe they'll never write another book in their natural lives (and probably do), but as long as they keep pretending otherwise, they can make money on the ones that have already been written by keeping them in print and promising the eventual conclusion.
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The idea that this insufferable wretch has failed his way into a life of idle & neverending shitposting is somewhat enraging.
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Rime posted:How much money can he possibly have at this point, though? The dude does not strike me as a savvy investor and we know he lost a ton on that stupid table startup. He's been living the high on the hog nerdlife for like a decade, his book sales must be dwindling, and the TV series seems dead. Surely he will have to pay back his advance on the third book if he doesn't poo poo something out in the near future? I think you're underestimating the amount of money he's made from uh....
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They better get that show out in the next 6 months because once GoT ends I don't think anyone is going to care about gritty fantasy TV shows anymore.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I think you're underestimating the amount of money he's made from uh.... I mean, it is a beautiful game.
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Solice Kirsk posted:They better get that show out in the next 6 months because once GoT ends I don't think anyone is going to care about gritty fantasy TV shows anymore. If GoT wasn't in the final notes with it know it is ending this season I think nobody would care. The public interest has cratered.
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The sooner Kingkiller season 1 starts, the sooner season 2 will start. 
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And yet one of these streaming services has gone all in on gritty fantasy, having begun production on The Wheel of Time and Lord of the loving Rings.
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Atlas Hugged posted:And yet one of these streaming services has gone all in on gritty fantasy, having begun production on The Wheel of Time and Lord of the loving Rings. ? How is Wheel of Time and especially Lord of the Rings gritty fantasy? 
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Do you honestly think they're going to be cheery romps?
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Atlas Hugged posted:Do you honestly think they're going to be cheery romps? Perhaps it's a matter of semantics? What's your definition of gritty fantasy? To be honest, I couldn't give you a definition of what I think "gritty fantasy" means. But for me, Joe Abercrombie writes gritty fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien did not.
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Torrannor posted:Perhaps it's a matter of semantics? What's your definition of gritty fantasy? To be honest, I couldn't give you a definition of what I think "gritty fantasy" means. The Lord of the Rings film to me are not gritty. They're heroic fantasy. Fantasy that relies heavily on archetypes, borrowed or foundational. I guess most people call it "high fantasy". The Hobbit films are gritty. They take a straightforward children's story and turn it into a rambling mess of romance subplots, rising evil, and political intrigue that are at best hinted at in the original books. Since the new show will be set "film adjacent", it's going to show the down and dirty war being fought by our new ragtag team of heroes that were always just immediately off-screen of every major event in the books. The stakes are going to have to be that much higher because we ultimately know how every event will turn out. They're going to double-down on Easterling politics, the rivalry between Rohan and Gondor, the Scouring of the Shire, and why dwarves and elves can't trust each other. It's going to be awful. I have no reason to think their Wheel of Time treatment will open as a lighthearted adventure with comically evil villains chasing after them from the shadows and not start in a world that more closely resembles The Crucible. I desperately want to be wrong though.
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