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I have a theory about the disconnect between the good prose vs. a lot of other stuff being crappy. Rothfuss says that he wrote entire trilogy years ago, went back to it and realised the writing was lovely and essentially is largely re-writing the entire trilogy. So the reason the plot is so plodding, the characters so one-dimensional the goony views on sex and women and so on, is that he didn't realise those things were actually issues. So he's put a lot of work into the prose without addressing some pretty obvious flaws in the overall story. Basically much of this reads as "Things Patrick Went Through, Projected Into a Fantasy Setting". I mean come on, when someone, especially someone goony first has sex, they are convinced that THEY HAVE DISCOVERED SEX. And that's exactly what the sex fairy thing is all about. We're basically reading about "When Patrick Had Sex and He Was Awesome At It". The no money in University thing is "When Patrick Had no Money in College". The trip to the Adem is "When Patrick Started Doing Ka-ra-te". poo poo, there's probably an "Ambrose" out there who was "Patrick's Nemesis in College" who has no clue who Patrick Rothfuss was, until someone points out that he was that creepy, cape-wearing, bearded dude who was following the guy's girlfriend around. Tachykinin fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jul 29, 2011 |
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