I am very smart.

[Anonymous No.18832062]

I am very smart.

[Anonymous No.18832072]

>>18832062
meh, its entertaining.

[Anonymous No.18832269]

It's such a good book, even though he is definitely a bit of a twat. 2nd book was definitely not as good though and of course 3rd is never coming

[Anonymous No.18832287]

I haven't read it, but I hate it.

[Anonymous No.18832294]

>>18832269
the second book nosedived into the mary sue trope really hard

[Anonymous No.18832515]

>>18832062
Whats it about

[Anonymous No.18832528]

>>18832269
He should have done what many authors do and shamelessly adapted a plot from a successful book from the past (as opposed to pulling random elements together from harry potter and earthsea and so on). His prose is actually OK, and he brought some good "worldbuilding" ideas to the table. But his characters and his plotting are atrocious - he is like the end game of fantasy drifting farther and farther from myth and folklore, and closer and closer to D&D. Whenever I think about Name of the Wind, I always feel like it is a wasted opportunity. He could have used the frame narrative so well to build up an "epic fantasy story" with an unreliable narrator, but it feels like that never happens and it is totally unironic that Kvothe is an unmitigated badass in every single way. So it ends up feeling like Rothfuss doesn't know what he's doing. I'm sure he and his money don't care that much and best wishes to him, but it could have been so much better with just one intelligent developmental edit.

[Anonymous No.18832543]

>>18832072
swan dive into an activo volcano plase

[Anonymous No.18832553]

>>18832269
you too
holy shit this garbage is literally Twilight for boys
it's unacceptable to like anything this HACK has excreted

[Anonymous No.18832726]

>>18832062
This book is a really well-written page turner that goes nowhere. It is no wonder Pat refuses to write a third book - imagine writing two whole books to only then realize that you went fucking nowhere with the plot

[Anonymous No.18832762]

>>18832062
So this is the power of western NTR. Couldnt read it with a straight face

[Anonymous No.18832927]

>>18832762
His ego must be inflated hard. How can you be so delusional about females and attraction in general? Is his whole personality his beard or what?

[Anonymous No.18832931]

>>18832726
>well-written page turner
Are we talking about the same book, because the writing is edgy middle school tier. Eragon is high prose in comparison to this slog fest.

[Anonymous No.18832934]

>>18832927
>you may have had hot steamy sex with my oneitis BUT there is a secret part of her soul just for ME! I win!

[Anonymous No.18832940]

>>18832934
Fucking kek.
>She doesn’t really care about Chad, but settles with a gentleman like me!

[Anonymous No.18832943]

>>18832762
this prose is terrible. is this YA?

[Anonymous No.18832946]

What the fuck happened to /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18832976]

>>18832943
I check if someone has shit taste in fantasy by asking what he or she thinks about The Name of the Wind. No joke.

[Anonymous No.18832981]

>>18832976
What would you consider to be good fantasy?

[Anonymous No.18833018]

>>18832981
Outside of the obvious ones like old heroic epics, LOTR, Dune, etc. I just like the old school pulpy fantasy like Kane, Elric, etc. that are at least well-written schlock; things like His Dark Materials, fairytales (from Akutagawa to collections that are mostly public domain). I admit I bundle soft sci-fi and folk stories into fantasy so my definition is rather broad.
That said I haven't read genre fiction in a while and I'm sure that if picked up most of the things I remember being decent I would change my mind about them.
Rothfuss is on a whole another level though. It reads like a 14 year old virgin's attempt at a real novel after writing fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.18833040]

>>18832762
WHAT A SIMP!

Anyway, yeah, I fucking hate the guy. I snatched one of those books from a swap-spot, but it was so obnoxious that I couldn't handle it. Then one year he made #1 on top 100 best fantasy list and I almost fucking lost it.

[Anonymous No.18833138]

>>18832062
I have very good memory, I am very tall, women find me very attractive, I am a sensitive soul, I look good without my shirt, I am every major historical figure

[Anonymous No.18833141]

>>18833138
Jokes on you, I hate Gene Wolfe, too.

[Anonymous No.18833230]

>>18832927
>>18833040

The men that are being described are just used by the girl Denna for money and gifts, she never sleeps with them (at least it isn't said so in the books). This is the problem of being a retard and making fun of pop-book you haven't read, you just end up displaying how retard you are.

[Anonymous No.18833243]

>>18832062
Behold.

[Anonymous No.18833246]

>>18833230
I read it though. Its clearly implied she also has sex with the men she dates. Even in the marked paragraph

[Anonymous No.18833255]

>>18833243
the art style gave me AIDS, can you summarize

[Anonymous No.18833296]

>>18833255
I'm afraid you'll need to suffer through it yourself in order to get the full experience.

[Anonymous No.18833313]

>>18832762
This is the only thing of Cuckfuss I will ever read.

[Anonymous No.18833424]

>>18833138
>Putting hackfus on the same level as chadolfe
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.18833443]

>>18833296
I made it through half of it. This is legitimately unreadable. It's like watching a gore video.

[Anonymous No.18833458]

>>18833243
> Using the phrase "stretch goal" in the context of dildoes
That said, I couldn't actually force myself to read that wall of text.

[Anonymous No.18833466]

It depends if the main character is unreliable or not. If Patrick R is playing it straight, then the books suck

[Anonymous No.18833482]

>>18832528
>His prose is actually OK, and he brought some good "worldbuilding" ideas to the table. But his characters and his plotting are atrocious - he is like the end game of fantasy drifting farther and farther from myth and folklore, and closer and closer to D&D. Whenever I think about Name of the Wind, I always feel like it is a wasted opportunity. He could have used the frame narrative so well to build up an "epic fantasy story" with an unreliable narrator, but it feels like that never happens and it is totally unironic that Kvothe is an unmitigated badass in every single way
What exactly, then, is "good" about his book. The way you and others describe it, I don't see what the upside is.

[Anonymous No.18833509]

>>18833482
It was astroturfed and aggressively marketed really hard and the hack was elected "heir of Tolkien" overnight, that's what's good about it.

[Anonymous No.18833549]

>>18832528
I remember the part where he meets goddes of sex or something but then he fucks her so good she begs him to stay. Gotta love when writers blatantly self-insert

[Anonymous No.18833559]

>>18833549
>Virgin before that can't even talk to girls
>Suddenly God of sex
>Afterwards again beta
You can tell the author spent 10 years writing it because it's all over the place

[Anonymous No.18833599]

>>18833230
Hi Patrick

[Anonymous No.18833739]

>>18833559
the part where he was trained by some female warrior in that warrior village and then she offers him sex to get rid of his "distraction" was straight out of some doujin/hentai.

it was kind of hot desu

[Anonymous No.18833999]

>>18833739
>she offers him sex to get rid of his "distraction"

[Anonymous No.18834161]

>>18833018
I mostly agree with this take. I've read The Meme of the Wind twice and it was worse the second time around. Rothfuss is good like Gaiman is good: they are not good, they are just popular with people (see typical YA women and their orbiters) with low standards of quality and subsequently equate entertainment with quality. Both Gaiman and Rothfuss have too great a chasm between their strengths and weaknesses as writers, which makes their weaknesses unforgivable and holds their writing back from being worth any serious analysis.

[Anonymous No.18834306]

>>18832762
This is what the average cuckold actually believes. They actually believe being funny, kind, or possessing a good personality is valuable to a woman and not a fuckhuge cock.

[Anonymous No.18834311]

>>18833243
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.18834367]

>>18832931
NotW is a cuck fantasy with a lot of elements stolen Harry Potter and EarthSea, but at least it isn't blatantly plagiarizing Star Wars.

[Anonymous No.18834375]

>>18834161
>Rothfuss is good like Gaiman is good: they are not good,
I dunno why this made me laugh

[Anonymous No.18834392]

So what's the deal with this guy? Did he just give up after people read the second book and started meming on how much of a Gary Stu his character was?

It's obvious he wrote himself into a corner and is a bit embarrassed by it, and I suspect that the only satisfying way out of it is for some massive unreliable narrator reveal (which I suspect might have been the plan all along), but he won't pull the trigger.

[Anonymous No.18834450]

>>18834161
Ironically I'm pretty sure that it was Gaiman himself at the forefront of propelling the hack to stardom.

[Anonymous No.18834490]

>>18833559
>>18833739

You know what, thinking about these, plus fake troupe vengeance scene, I think the tall tales must be intentionally cringe.

[Anonymous No.18834864]

>>18833999
Dubdubtrips

[Anonymous No.18835080]

>>18832762
fucking kek, straight from r/cuckold

[Anonymous No.18835626]

>>18832072
Nayu is so fucking manly and cool I wish he would ravage my boipussy like he did Cuntphas.

[Anonymous No.18835886]

>>18834392
Nah, even from the first book, it's clear Kvothe changed his name so that even if what he says is true, he is no longer the same person.

[Anonymous No.18836914]

>>18832762
This is a 10/10 passage on reddit

[Anonymous No.18836972]

>>18833243
I can't believe these people wouldn't turn on him for being sexist. Kingkiller Chronicles is basically a harem anime about student loans.

[Anonymous No.18838106]

>>18833246
It literally says the opposite. I'm sure Rothfuss himself is a giant black cock loving cuckold, but there's no cuckery in the books. She's some kind of spy working for some rich guy and the roastie act is part of her cover

[Anonymous No.18838168]

>>18832062
I like when his family dies (?) and he goes into the woods to plays his flute for weeks while crying. Very cool.

[Anonymous No.18838176]

>>18838168

[Anonymous No.18838236]

>>18838106
I'm pretty sure she just a hoe, and I applaud this bold choice.
I'm sure there is more to her than meets the eye but you gotta go all the way if you want this cover to stick, if you ask me...

[Anonymous No.18838307]

Kvothe shoulda gone after Fela

[Anonymous No.18838332]

>>18838236
That's entirely within reason, but it hasn't been stated to be so yet. Now that our societal pendulum has hit peak degeneracy though I have no doubt that she will be retconned as a powerful and proud nonbinary transracial sex positive sex worker who exclusively takes black cock in order to smash the white cishet capitalist patriarchy

[Anonymous No.18838343]

>>18832072
>posting bakker in a rothfuss thread
based

[Anonymous No.18839163]

>>18833999
the protag also says that eventhough his teacher always beat him in their spars/training when man and women lay down together they are on even footing or something like that.

[Anonymous No.18840462]

>>18839163

[Anonymous No.18840475]

>>18832072
It really isn't.

[Anonymous No.18840523]

>>18832762
Funniest thing is that there’s quite a similar sentiment in Ulysses

[Anonymous No.18841684]

>>18832528
I think he never planned it out (properly..). It was all just a grand narrative to get you to feel his emotions and thats it. Him listening to people analyse his book and pull more from it than he put in while then promising it as a trilogy is why you think the 2nd book is meh. Its patty trying to keep the spirit of the first while knowing that his emotion porn needs to be structured to finish in 3 books. Which is where the dnd feel comes from, and why the third is never coming out.
I liked the 2nd personally, he built up the tragic romance so much that the only partner to it would be a sex goddess

[Anonymous No.18842003]

>>18834306
That's just how normal people think. Get out of your porn fantasies.

[Anonymous No.18842008]

>>18832062
Thanks.