/lit/ - Literature

>>13111022
>a decade of my life has been wasted on a show ultimately guided by the white male viewpoint

SHOCKING! Someone should have warned her!

>shitty writer
>boring dialog and pointless subplots
>obvious pedo and rapist
what did he do to even be noticed in the first place?

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>read some classic pulp fantasy
>realise George RR Martin apes them to a ridiculous extent
>suspicions are confirmed by GRRM himself saying he got into fantasy through them
Robert E. Howard could fit politics, metaphysical speculation, horror, violence, and sex into magazine-length short stories, which GRRM has needed about 3500 pages for his one story and isn't anywhere near finished. Despite his grandstanding about tax policies and the struggle between good and evil within man, he's done nothing new and is writing on the level of self-described commercial writers who could pump out a dozen works per year. He outright copies names from Lovecraft and even physical descriptions are lifted, e.g. the Targaryans' violet eyes and blonde hair, the exact same as the Elder Race of R.E. Howard's Kull stories.

Unironically, the TV series is more impressive, and that's not saying much.

>In fantasy... well, damn, it was a great year for fantasy. I read at least half a dozen books so good that they made me say, "I wish I'd written that." THE HEROES by Joe Abercrombie was an action tour de force, an entire novel built around a single battle. Lev Grossman's THE MAGICIAN KING was a worthy successor to THE MAGICIANS, and proof that last year's Hugo voters knew what they were about when they voted Grossman the Campbell Award as the best new writer in the field. And Daniel Abraham... yes, him again, damn him... did something I would not have thought possible. He published a novel called THE DRAGON'S PATH, the first volume in the new epic fantasy series called THE DAGGER AND THE COIN, and it was just as bloody good as his Long Price Quartet.
>Any of those books would be worthy nominees, but none of them were the best epic fantasy I read last year. For my money, that has to be THE WISE MAN'S FEAR, by Patrick Rothfuss.
>WMF is the second volume in Rothfuss's Kvothe series, and it took him nearly as long to write it as I took for A DANCE WITH DRAGONS (hey, I'm glad it did, he drew some of the fire). But it was worth the wait. I gulped it down in a day, staying up almost to dawn reading, and I am already itching for the next one. He's bloody good, this Rothfuss guy. THE WISE MAN"S FEAR should rightly contend not only for the Hugo, but also for the World Fantasy Award.
Jesus Christ, how does he have such unbearably shit taste?

Every day I wake up the first thing I do is look up news of Winds' release. Why can't this fat fuck write faster? The only time I get attached to a series and it had to be this one. It's not fair bros.

Hehehe... you know... PLENTY of famous authors have never finished their work... Fitzgerald, Dickens, Tolkien... the list goes on! Just sayin’, hehehe...

I don't care if he finishes the books.

All I want is his adaptation of Lord of the Rings.

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Will he make it in time?