first lemma: NEVER READ THE BULLSHIT ON THE FAN FORUMS NEVER READ THE REVIEWS NEVER READ THE CRITICISM
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
ok so the internet suggests he at least has a word count now so at least it's progressed to editing-hell instead of entirely missing-in-action.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
is this the third godawful Kvothe book or the GRRM book
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ok look, I don't care that there's at least 200 pages too many in the second Kvothe book. I don't care that there's an entire cringe inducing plot arc that seems like little more than cheesecake for my 13 year old horndog lonely kid self. I'm ok with all of that.
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I don't even care that he named the goddamn thing "Kingkiller Chronicle" and it's almost certain that the eponymous king killing ain't gonna happen, or at least not in any obvious way, in the first 3 books.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
I absolutely care that it's badly written, incredibly shitty about gender, and the protagonist is the most gigantic Gary Stu in any book I've read in the last 20 years. YMMV tho.
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Replying to @palecur @danlistensto
the writing seems pleasant enough to me but those other things, oh for sure. i love me some Kvothe the way i love me some Entenmann's: indulging luxuriously in something i know is cheap and bad for me
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i do cringe a little every time i accidentally become aware of how many people are consuming it without knowing it's bad for them though
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I guess? I mean, god knows I read through a shit ton of Ed Greenwood and Bob Salvatore pulp crap as a kid but I don't think it was "bad for me". It didn't prevent me from reading actually good books later. Cultivated the pleasure of reading so I would actually do that.
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i mean i ain't got no high horse or nothin', i've read plenty of Greenwood and Salvatore but even more Piers Anthony. there's a cornpone thread in these kinds of things that i do think fucks people up if they become dependent on it, though, like that's how you get Comicsgate ppl
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I don't follow. Reading a book as a kid will make you into an uncharitable reader as an adult with political grievances and an ax to grind on Facebook or something? hwat?
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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
reading dozens of books that pervasively flatter you in ways you don't notice (because everything you read does it) can, if you get real used to it, cause you to become shocked and angered by exposure to books that unaccountably fail to flatter you
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