/lit/ - Literature

>>15804946
>It's because before editing the book was ~15-20% longer.
I struggle to believe this, because there's so much that I ask myself 'Why wasn't this cut out?'
The interludes can be entirely jettisoned. If they really mattered to the story that much; he would've incorporated Szeth into one of the 5 parts as bookends.
For what the story tells, there is no reason for it to be more than 250k words.
Fellowship of the Ring and Dune - two works that WoK is 'On the same level as' - were both ~180k words, and are great.
WoK is nowhere in the leagues of either, and is more than double the length.
That's a fucking problem, Sanderson's yes-men and mouth-breathers can deny it all they want; it's quantity over quality at play and the fact people aren't upset by it baffles me.

Also, I really struggle to believe it because this comes from the man that says "Finish the second chapter before revisiting/rewriting the first chapter." because it feels like he's doing this on a much larger scale of finishing book 2 before revisiting book 1.

Is the Goodkind meme real, or is it overblown?

I haven't really taken note of his stuff, I just saw a book of his earlier today and was wondering your guys' opinion on it.

I hate a man.
I have an exam for Biological Psychology soon that I am not looking forward to doing.

It stirs up an old memory.
The lecturer of the unit already has his image soured in my mind. This is due to his negligence towards the students, their feedback about him not being taken and him showing a hard-ass exterior but has an utterly lazy approach in reality. And not to mention failing more than 1/5th (including me) of the class the last semester due to a technical issue outside of our control.
Our online submission system had a rollback for whatever reason, and his response was "nope, sorry, your fuck up, see you next year." and that was it.
We all groaned, saw the dean and was told that we weren't going to be academically penalised in the long run but that the timing is too convenient for the submission (which is fair since this was a month after the submission date). We were told we would have to redo the unit. I'm pretty sure a person quit their degree because of this.
But the rest of us decided to redo it, our passion for this field however was utterly snuffed out however.
We came back this semester, and endured the pain together.

I cringed as I listen to him mumble over the content of the slides, reading them word for word, offering "explanations" that are just rehashing sentences he has already said but with synonyms.
He asked for people to be 'clear and concise" with their answers, yet he cannot ask a question without implications, hidden meaning, double negatives or having them be a paragraph long. He made me realise that there's a difference between asking a question in an academic testing way, and then there is not knowing how to ask a question: but trying to make a question seem academic by making it complex.
Many students this semester have received passes and credits, but very few had distinctions on their semesterly assignment. With the most feedback being given is one word answers - "Unclear, Good, incorrect" offering no additional information.
I thought it was just from misinterpreting the question, many others said they got low marks but passed.
Now, I had thought this was coincidence, but when I had shown the question to a Doctor of BioChem w/ Education Dip , who is also a lecturer at the same uni (not my course, but a friend); they literally said "That's not even a question, how were you even assessed on this?"
And then it clicked.

I've realised that the lecturer is like a teenager with no motivation - he's just winging it. He feigns interest, and doesn't care for others education.
He's doing the bare minimum to make it each year. He's not incompetent (I mean he's at least teaching a unit so that's something), just incredibly fucking lazy.
I have even noticed that questions in the mock exam are literally wrong. Like they contradict what we were taught levels of wrong. Like he didn't have someone else do the mock test beforehand.
I just don't want to redo this unit. I'll take a 50, that's fine.
Fuck you P. Fuck you.