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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.
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
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
i've always assumed that Rothfuss was leaning into the Gary Stu thing as hard as he could as an intentional exercise, but then again i thought Ernest Cline was parodying shitty nerd worldviews in RP1 until i saw what he said in interviews so what the fuck do i know
"I will, as a sixteen year old virgin, be so good at sex that the literal goddess of fucking people to death is amazed at my skill and spares my life" was a pretty book-throwing moment tbh
I mean, on top of the 'immensely talented archmage, fencer, lutist' combo
its so so so bad did help me develop a heuristic though does your fiction or comic book involve ninjas well then it probably blows hard
this is strong stuff. I'm trying to think of anything with ninjas that's actually good and I can't find one. maybe the turtles. maybe. if tongue-in-cheek grunge culture is good (it kinda isn't though).
I care that he succeeded in creating a narrative fiction in which both drug addiction and mental illness are personified as mysterious and beautiful women and where a swaggering hero's instincts to publicly humiliate his bullies are the WORST fucking decisions.
we must have read different books because I have no idea what you mean about personifying drug addiction and mental illness as women
Denna and Auri
I can't believe that it took me THIS LONG to realize that her name is almost literally the same as the word Rothfuss made up for meth Like this is on a level of subtlety akin to naming a character "Morphina"
Denna/Denner Resin I thought it was too obvious to mention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm also sticking by my psychodynamic reading of the text and I'm like 1000% committed to the entire inner Kvothe story being a series of elaborate self-serving lies by the real character Kote
maybe Rothfuss will pull a "LOST" and go on for like six more books before finally admitting that it was what he'd had in mind all along and he only kept going because he was mad that we tumbled to it so early.
lmao probably not. i think the reason he's taking so long to finish the third book is that he's read too much of this type of shit on the internet and has come down with a bad case of self-doubt because so many people read the story at face value.
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