/lit/ - Literature

>>21380824
I read Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear last year. Name of the Wind... I liked. The "draccus sequence" near the end was goofy, but that's a minor quibble. Otherwise, I was engaged, read through it in a week, and thought Rothfuss was a pretty gifted writer. I was interested enough in what would happen with the story that I ended up reading Wise Man's Fear a couple weeks later.

In the meantime, I started browsing /lit/, and didn't understand the hate the books got. "Patrick Rothfuss is a fat lefty beardo soijak textbook male feminist." Looking him up, that seemed to be true, but so what? You should separate an author from their work, and none of the personal complaints about him seemed to effect his book. Even the complaints about Kvothe being an "overpowered author's fantasy self-insert" didn't seem meaningful, because it's established that Kvothe is a massive liar. One of my favorite books is Umberto Eco's Baudolino, so I actually like this kinda thing. An unreliable narrator can evoke some fun speculations on my part.

Wise Man's Fear started well enough, and the little bits of in-setting mythos beginning to make sense as the story progressed was well-done. I did start to seem like there wasn't much progress being made, even though there was an increased progression from one sequence to another; I didn't even hate the "fairy realm" sequence like most people seemed to, though that was around this point where I started getting bored and annoyed for pages at a time (the Ctheah encounter was pretty rad, tho). Then we got to the Adem. The fucking Adem. I've never hated 100-or-so pages of a book as much as I did this shit. After finally getting through that, we get the goddamn Gypsies. It became more tolerable nearing the end, but when it was all over, there had been essentially no plot progression. Just a series of episodes that built up to nothing, and about 1/3 of the book was just torture. Fuck this shit. (I'll still probably read Doors of Stone).

>>21380824
I read Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear last year. Name of the Wind... I liked. The "draccus sequence" near the end was goofy, but that's a minor quibble. Otherwise, I was engaged, read through it in a week, and thought Rothfuss was a pretty gifted writer. I was interested enough in what would happen with the story that I ended up reading Wise Man's Fear a couple weeks later.

In the meantime, I started browsing /lit/, and didn't understand the hate the books got. "Patrick Rothfuss is a fat lefty beardo basedjak textbook male feminist." Looking him up, that seemed to be true, but so what? You should separate an author from their work, and none of the personal complaints about him seemed to effect his book. Even the complaints about Kvothe being an "overpowered author's fantasy self-insert" didn't seem meaningful, because it's established that Kvothe is a massive liar. One of my favorite books is Umberto Eco's Baudolino, so I actually like this kinda thing. An unreliable narrator can evoke some fun speculations on my part.

Wise Man's Fear started well enough, and the little bits of in-setting mythos beginning to make sense as the story progressed was well-done. I did start to seem like there wasn't much progress being made, even though there was an increased progression from one sequence to another; I didn't even hate the "fairy realm" sequence like most people seemed to, though that was around this point where I started getting bored and annoyed for pages at a time (the Ctheah encounter was pretty rad, tho). Then we got to the Adem. The fucking Adem. I've never hated 100-or-so pages of a book as much as I did this shit. After finally getting through that, we get the goddamn Gypsies. It became more tolerable nearing the end, but when it was all over, there had been essentially no plot progression. Just a series of episodes that built up to nothing, and about 1/3 of the book was just torture. Fuck this shit. (I'll still probably read Doors of Stone).