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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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
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 @chaosprime
I think more of a thing where a reading diet consisting solely of D&D tie-ins constrains intellectual development and leaves one open to regarding challenges to that universe as attacks on one's own identity. Which is the core of goobergrape.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
well that's a pretty sad outcome. hard to reason about counterfactuals, but if you're talking about a person with that degree of incuriosity and ego fragility, it's not the pulp fantasy novels that's fucking up their emotional and intellectual development.
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enh, yes and no. there's a feedback loop between the pathologies we bring to our indulgences and the ways our indulgences reinforce our pathologies and i don't think it's as simple as saying one is blameful and one is blameless
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
looks like we're doing a Lacanian reading after all
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