ITT: the author's thinly disguised power fantasy

[Anonymous No.19444288]

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[Anonymous No.19445097]

>>19444288
>thinly disguised
is that a fucking joke?

[Anonymous No.19445105]

>>19444288
>>19445097
sorry nvm I'm retarded, thought you were saying well hidden. fuck im tired

[Anonymous No.19445111]

>>19444288

[Anonymous No.19445137]

>>19445111

>translated by 2 women
oh no no no

[Anonymous No.19445156]

Got meme'd into reading this shit, soon realized that the author self-inserts as the Gary Stu and dropped it

[Anonymous No.19445519]

>>19445156
at least the story is self aware that the main character is a manipulative piece of shit. kinda.

[Anonymous No.19445521]

>>19444288
Dante's inferno

[Anonymous No.19445576]

>>19445521
That’s not disguised at all

[Anonymous No.19445590]

>>19445156
>>19445519
Achamian is the self insert.

[Anonymous No.19445599]

>>19444288
>First book is an okay-ish YA fantasy novel, better than most
>Second book the main character (who is a virgin) is so good at sex he impresses the sex goddess and then travels to a polyamorous warrior society where he has sex with all their women
>Even though he is the best at sex (everyone he has sex with tells him this) he still can't tell the love of his life he likes her like a weak faggot
>Third book is never coming out (good riddance)
I will never forgive myself for getting memed into reading this.

[Anonymous No.19445626]

>>19445599
That second novel sounds kino though.

[Anonymous No.19445661]

>>19445156
>>19445519
So, I wasn’t the only that realized that Kellhus is an idealized version of Bakker? That shit really creeped me out.

[Anonymous No.19445719]

It's pretty ok if you skip all the chapters about the main character's """love interest"""

[Anonymous No.19445738]

>>19445156
>>19445519
>>19445661
If you ever read deeper about the author, he seems incredibly petty and obsessed. His early blog posts are just a shining beacon of salt because his writing wasn't appreciated enough, lol.
>BECAUSE FANTASY ISN'T TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!
He's so autistic he never once considered he's the problem. Ironic, too, since in a podcast one time they asked him some question about people felt about the books and he got triggered and sounded slightly offended, answering with,
>Well, I don't care how people feel, they're my books, I'll write them how I please.
You just know this is the type of guy that thinks everyone that criticizes him is too stupid to understand him or has ulterior motives and bullies his associates to stroke his ego.
He unironically emanates insane beta energy, which is probably why he made himself a god-like self insert in his book.

[Anonymous No.19446013]

>>19444288
I remember liking the prose though, I read it when I was 14, but even then I realized Kvothe is the authors juvinile DnD Mary Sue character. Don't remember the second nearly aswell. Anyway, now it makes we want to ask; what books have a similar style of prose and imagery as the best of these books? I'd actually like to read them.

[Anonymous No.19446232]

>>19445738
It’s always the beta males that do this shit.

[Anonymous No.19446259]

>>19444288
The first one felt like a shitty light novel academic arc, but instead of 150 pages it's nearly a thousand.
Felt like killing myself after reading this trash.

[Anonymous No.19446371]

>>19445738
Kek, then why do so many faggots on here shill him? Sounds like he’s nothing more than a beta bitch?

[Anonymous No.19446400]

>>19444288
Listen to the audibooks for some top keks, sounds like the pro wants to fuck the catman.

[Anonymous No.19446407]

>>19444288
Listen to the audibooks for some top keks, sounds like the pro wants to fuck the fae boy.

[Anonymous No.19446707]

Just about every Sci-fi novel written before PC culture changed the thinking. For example, unattractive men constantly fucking women out of their leagues or younger (Ringworld, Neuromancer, every Peter F Hamilton book)
As for Fantasy, it's something guys seem to do.

[Anonymous No.19446936]

>>19446707
I agree with this. It's more likely to be a power trip than not.

[Anonymous No.19447361]

>>19445738
God, he sounds like such a fucking pseud.

[Anonymous No.19448184]

>>19445738
God, he sounds like such a fucking chad.

[Anonymous No.19448380]

>>19445626
Its not. It might be the worst thing I have ever been tricked into reading.

[Anonymous No.19448388]

>>19448380
Well. We all fall prey to some memes, sometimes.

[Anonymous No.19448407]

>>19444288
Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel where a tall no-nonsense TV journalist of Irish heritsge conflicts with people at his network, gets forced out. He then proceeds to brutally murder everyone who crossed him, while being pursued by the protagonist, a straight talking detective who is also tall and Irish.

It transcends cringe, the man was so sepf absorbed he wrote himself in twice, and all the people the antagonist killed were a reference to his conflicts with CNN when he worked there.

[Anonymous No.19448415]

>>19445599
>>19448380
My sentiments exactly to the letter

[Anonymous No.19448502]

>>19444288
I hate this faggot so much

[Anonymous No.19449750]

>>19444288
He’s never finishing it. Kek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ImrBL8ocs

[Anonymous No.19450035]

>>19445738
Low energy. What I’ll expect from a leftist

[Anonymous No.19450970]

>>19444288
Give me a QRD on Name of the Wind.

[Anonymous No.19452410]

>>19444288
Anything written by Bernard Cornwell

[Anonymous No.19453684]

>>19448380
lol

[Anonymous No.19453715]

>>19450970
>The lion's share of old-school literature IS fantasy, they just pretend it isn't. The Odyssey is full of gods and spells. Oedipus Rex has a sphinx and a prophecy. There are witches in Macbeth, faeries in Midsummer Night's Dream, and a ghost in Hamlet. Dante's Inferno? Beowulf? All looks like fantasy to me....

>As far as having my book recognized as literature? [Pat shrugs] Why would I want that? I mean, have you read Great Expectations? Gech. Why would I want to invited into their little club? Give me Tim Powers and Phillip K Dick. Give me
Le Guin, Gaiman, and Pratchett. Give me McKillip and Whedon. These are the storytellers. These are our modern mythmakers. Our oracles. Our dreamers. I want to be on that team.

http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2007/03/patrick-rothfuss-interview.html

[Anonymous No.19453818]

>>19453715
Desu I don't think you need to exclusively read the canon. Many things that are considered "high brow" nowadays were popular entertaintment when they were written (Shakespeare, Melville, Homer, etc.) but you're really doing yourself a disservice, especially if you want to be a writer, to not at least try and read the classics. Read everything you can. Expand your horizons, faggots. It's good for your writing and good for your soul.

[Anonymous No.19453824]

>>19453818
I mean, I know and I do. Just found those Rothfuss quotes were pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.19453851]

>>19453824
Yeah, not really picking at you in particular. Reading that quote just triggered my autism amd made me want to get on a soapbox and rail against this attitude, as well as it's inverse that if you want to be a good author you can only read what /lit/ gives you permission to read and nothing else.

[Anonymous No.19453862]

>>19453851
Yeah I dont believe that either. A few of my most cherished authors are forgotten classics and I happen to enjoy fantasy shlocks between more serious reads.

[Anonymous No.19454099]

>>19444288
the whitcher series. i can't believe a friend convinced me to read that shit.

[Anonymous No.19454108]

>>19445599
please tell me you are joking

[Anonymous No.19454380]

>>19444288
you meant author's openly shown cuckold fantasy?

[Anonymous No.19454391]

>>19446707
in neuromancer molly fucked him because he reminded her of her ex (read short story), and lets be honest she was also a bit of a whore

[Anonymous No.19454891]

>>19454380
LMAOOO

[Anonymous No.19454970]

>>19454380
If the author actually had a cuck fantasy that might have been better than this shit. This is desperate cope over not having enough of a spine to ask out the girl he liked in college and romanticizing his orbiting as somehow better than actually being in a relationship. Even in your shitty self insert fantasy you're still a beta, Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.19455448]

>>19445599
You forgot to mention he fucks a supernatural hot chick which is a pro cumdumpster and he manages to impress her too

[Anonymous No.19455612]

>>19455448
whats funnier is he is a virgin when he mets her and she is basically goddes of sex or something and than he fucks her so good she begs him to stay. Revolutionary writing

[Anonymous No.19456942]

>>19454380
Is this why reddit loves it so much?

[Anonymous No.19457035]

>>19455448
>>19455612
It's worse than that. She's the goddess of sex and her sex is so good that people that have sex with her go insane and die from how good it is. Except the MC, who is a virgin before meeting her, is so good at sex on his first go that he feels fine and she wants to keep him in her magical realm of sex because he's so good at it. The she teaches him secret sex moves and he goes on to fuck every woman with a pulse except the one chick he actually likes. What fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.19457154]

>>19454380
what happens if he gets to know one of her childhood friends? sodoku on the spot?

[Anonymous No.19457317]

>>19445599
I'm halfway through the second book but wow

[Ken No.19457347]

>>19457035

i dunno sounds kinda based desu ngl

[Anonymous No.19457354]

>>19446259
I remember liking the first novel, but when I got my hands on the second book after 4-5 years the whole story just sounded boring and juvenile. Even the prose wasn't nearly as good as I remembered.

[Anonymous No.19457362]

>>19444288
>the author's thinly disguised power fantasy
>Still a literal cuck
Grim.

[Anonymous No.19457768]

>>19457035
Hahahaha I cant believe how many times I saw people on reddit recommending this shit, Im so glad I found /lit

[Anonymous No.19458025]

>>19453715
I am normally someone who defends genre fiction, and even escapism generally, as a mostly harmless and potentially edifying hobby or coping mechanism. It irks me when the religious and ideological try to insert their propaganda into all literature and all culture, and I believe it is healthier to allow a relative aesthetic freedom and imagination to reign in the arts so that there is always some scope - no matter how derided or low brow or forgotten the medium - to think freely.

But having Rothfuss "on my side" trying to represent and defend a similar position makes me feel sick. He sounds like Ernest Cline in this quote, and sounds as if he is trying to make a virtue out of being ignorant of high art, trying to overinflate the importance of popular art... rather than just upholding the (I think easily defensible) value of genre fiction, and mere entertainment. It just reeks of weird, thwarted, beta male egomania.
>Harrumph... why can't I be a genius and a clown at the same time?
At least Tolkien understood hardship. His defenses of this stuff are erudite and backed by the clear understanding of someone who recognizes that fictions are useful to those who suffer greatly. Those who critique Tolkien along these lines like Mieville can't help but make themselves look petty, envious, grasping... "why do these normies enjoy hobbits more than communism... nooooo"

It's not the same with Rothfuss.

[Anonymous No.19458089]

[Anonymous No.19458128]

>>19446707
>Louis Wu
>unattractive
Cringe, he was a gigachad descended from a line of gigachads whose genetics were so good that the government allowed them to have lots of children despite living in a society that was trying to control its population.
>wah the 200 year old fucks the 20 year old
He looked like he was young too.
Not to say that ringworld is great, Wu like most scifi protagonists is barely a character
However I think the author insert character thing is absolutely a valid criticism of the draco tavern

[Anonymous No.19458433]

I remembered enjoying the first book when I was younger, I picked up the second book and it lost me after he became the ginger god of sex.

[Anonymous No.19458844]

>>19445626
Until you remember it's 1000 pages long and boring as fuck

[Anonymous No.19458869]

>>19445599
You forgot to describe the endless cringe inducing descriptions of kungfu moves like "break lion" and "makes hay with the faggots"

[Anonymous No.19459088]

>>19458869
Prose does not exist in this dojo, does it?
>No, Sensei!
Pacing does not exist in this dojo, does it?
>No, Sensei!
Self Awareness does not exist in this dojo, does it?
>No, Sensei!
What do we study here?
>The way of the hack, sir!
And what is that way?
>Write slow, Write bad, no third book, sir!
I can't hear you!
>WRITE SLOW, WRITE BAD, NO THIRD BOOK, SIR!

[Anonymous No.19459093]

>>19458025
>It irks me when the religious and ideological try to insert their propaganda into all literature and all culture
so like at least half of all pieces of work ever created

[Anonymous No.19459112]

So we have a book called "State of Terror" by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, where the plot revolves around Ellen Adams, the "heroic, determined and brilliant US secretary of state" (three guesses who this is meant to be) and the Evil Baddie Eric Dunn who "lives in Palm Beach, Florida. He plays a lot of golf. He pulled the US out of the nuclear agreement with Iran" (again, three guesses who this is meant to be).

Poor Ellen is not having a great time of it in her job (the new president doesn't like her, her husband is recently dead, and her last diplomatic outing to Korea didn't go well), but never mind - terrorists are conducting a bombing campaign across Europe and she is on the trail!

The British, French, and other European leaders get short shrift, but Ellen jets from Iran to Pakistan to Russia, doggedly on the trail, until it leads back home and - well, will it spoil the dénouement if I whisper, Orange Man Bad?

[Anonymous No.19459220]

>>19459093
If you are going to be such a faggot, just go ahead and say all pieces of work.

[Anonymous No.19459369]

>>19457347
Shut the fuck up, Ken

[Anonymous No.19459375]

>>19459220
No, because not every piece of art is religiously or politically motivated.

[Anonymous No.19459390]

>>19459088
who reads this

[Anonymous No.19459434]

>>19457035
He also has quasi harem of the women fawning over him. There was the girl running the store, the one living in sewers or something and the spartan one. There were probably more but I cant remember. And the only one he is attracted to is literal prostitute. Its like western isekai but cucked

[Anonymous No.19459475]

>>19445599
The second one sounds like a Hentai plot. lmao

[Anonymous No.19459539]

I want to read a fantasy book but everyone I look at seems bad. It's disapointing frankly.

[Anonymous No.19459674]

>>19459539
you have to treat it like movie schlock. Would you watch cheesy 70s horror and expect citizen kane?
Anyway I read the first law trilogy recently and it was entertaining enough.

[Anonymous No.19459689]

>>19445599
Good ridance. I have such a hate boner for this series, I wish Rothfuss would drown on his own shit.

[Anonymous No.19459696]

>>19459390
Redditors