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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Ugh, I play violin (amateurly) but even I can tell you that if a string breaks in the middle of a major concerto you're hosed. I remember a story about Joshua Bell playing when a string broke and he had to swap instruments with an orchestra member. In theory, yes you can play the same notes on different strings but no way in hell do you have the muscle memory to do that and if your G or E breaks you are literally losing range. Thanks to my (terrible) guitar playing, I can appreciate what a great musician Kvothe truly is.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:That's not fair at all Kirito is good at one thing, Kvothe isn't just good at music, and applies that to magic or something no hes good at EVERYTHING, except for relationships. It's like when he was living on the streets, until he realized that he could effortlessly talk his way into free boots and admittance to the top magic school. Or when he was unable to pay for tuition, until he remembered that he was the greatest musician and could just go win a contest. You could probably make an interesting story about someone with godlike powers but crippling self-doubt, but I don't think Rothfuss is the author to do it. Instead, Kvothe just fails to apply himself when it would otherwise break the story.
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Nov 20, 2018 20:57
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Maybe the whole thing with Felurian is Kvothe being an unreliable narrator, and she isn't an unattainable sex goddess so much as a deranged hermit living in the forest and thinking the trees are conspiring against her. And he misunderstood when he thought everyone was saying that you couldn't have sex with her and survive, when they were really saying "sex with that deranged hermit would be a fate worse than death." Everyone wasn't amazed that he survived, but that he had sex with her at all, and even more that he dared show his face again to brag about it.
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Dec 2, 2018 17:58
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Rothfuss was creating his own magic world, so he could have actually decoupled sex and reproduction, and written about the ramifications. In fact, I'll just assume that's true and everyone just got tired of trying to explain to Kvothe that he was an idiot.
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Feb 12, 2019 05:55
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It's not like believing that a goddess makes the crops grow, because that's unverifiable. It's more like not believing that planting seeds in the ground makes crops grow, despite seeing it happen plenty of times. Even the most primitive society can figure out cause-and-effect when there is actual observable data. The ancient Greeks may have believed in Demeter, but they still figured out to plant crops, because otherwise they would have starved to death. So yeah, it's a pretty dumb excuse for promiscuous sex ninjas.
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Feb 20, 2019 05:48
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I figured he was supposed to be Jimi Hendrix playing the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Mar 18, 2019 23:13
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It doesn't matter whether he knows anything about music. All that matters is that he panders to people that know music. It's like how he can declare a feminist and everything he writes is accepted because he's on their team. Ascribe everything he'd written to [some author feminists hate] and it'd be derided as misogynistic garbage.
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Nov 25, 2019 17:58
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I would find his explanation more plausible if books one and two were intricate works that had been extensively edited and revised, but they appear to be just a bunch of loosely connected adventures that all center around Kvothe. Plus, making things coherent is what a story editor would do, so he could have handed off book three for revision long ago. My guess is that he's gotten old enough to be embarrassed with whatever passes for book three, and since he hasn't been writing, he hasn't gotten any better so he can't fix it.
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Mar 21, 2021 06:59
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In theory, sure, because there are plenty of competent writers that would anonymously write a book from an outline. In practice, no, because that sould require finishing an outline.
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Nov 8, 2021 21:00
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All the delay will be worth it when it turns out the Kvothe kills King Joffrey in the most exciting writing collaboration ever. I'm tempted to write a crossover conclusion to both series myself just to flex on two acclaimed authors. The catch is that I haven't actually thought about either series in years, so I can't remember what all the loose plots threads are, or have any mental picture of how to get the geography to overlap. Or even whether King Joffrey is still alive to be killed for that matter.
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Nov 23, 2021 00:51
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Well if I don't get to kill real Joffrey then it's hardly worth it. I'll have to continue practicing writing with original novels. Which I then discard because they're not good enough, especially without the.hook of being an amateur attempt to shove two unrelated franchises together which could at least be amusingly bad.
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Nov 23, 2021 02:06
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If Kvothe is an unreliable narrator and the real Edema Ruh aren't as inherently flawless as he claims, am I to conclude that Kvothe didn't actually restrain himself from raping the girls he rescued? It'd actually explain a lot of the story if the reality is "incel gets magic powers and use them to go on a rape spree," like escaping from the sex fairy, the barmaid suddenly liking him, why everyone he knows now shuns him, etc. Except Bast still hangs around him, but he must be like those guys that idolize Elliott Rogers. Until a third book says otherwise, I think I'm going with this as my interpretation.
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