I think if I could just read the little ‘asides’ about the world, I’d be happy. He built an incredible setting, but after the fourth book I was just sort of grumpy. The majority of the characters just completely stopped being interesting. Give me that one guy making measurements of the fire sprites, or the colossal shrimp that one city uses for its executions.
Still lose fewer allen wrenches than 10mm sockets. I swear the companies that make them have some sort of magic that causes them to disappear after a year.
Valdemar deals with some serious stuff, but glosses over the worst of it. The torture of one main character, and the brutal burning of another, as two examples, are handled pretty well. I would still go back and read them if I didn’t just remember them all so well because they’re awesome. There is definitely the fantasy trope of orphan/unwanted kids getting their fantasy though, but it’s appropriate for the blue fantasy genre.
…also, you should get crucified for sword of truth :P
Hell yes. I always forget to mention it in these threads, but I absolutely loved the story.
I thought he specifically didn’t out-sex the sex nymph, but as she was about to turn and kill her latest victim (because she used sex and he was used up), it turned out the victim (our heeeero) had an affinity for the ‘supreme’ or actual magic in the series, and he was able to use it to bind her in the old fashioned ‘true-names-let-you-control’ trope… and then she turned him into a god of sex because she couldn’t kill him and he wasn’t going anywhere for a while.
I also think your characterization of quothe as not able to talk to girls isn’t quite accurate, just that he was a fool who had decided there was only one girl for him.
None of this is to say the criticisms of rothfuss aren’t accurate. The guy sniffs his own farts and thinks he creates pure oxygen in his bowels. His little vignette about making soap goes on for pages, and he had the temerity to sell it as it being just. so. necessary to do.
Just give a little warning. It’s ‘superpowers’ written in a serial format that brings the brutality of a series like invincible, but while invincible sort of still plays it off in a comic appropriate way, it’s never ‘fixed’ or back to the status quo in worm. While a lot of the brutality is glossed over except when the author is hitting that anvil, and even then more is able to be overlooked because the action and character interactions are just written so alluringly and you’ll be speeding through it, taking a moment to step back and think about what just happened ‘in universe’ can be shocking.
I think the bloodhound gang is still ahead of you on that one.
Most places in the united states have ‘romeo and juliet’ style laws, where two people who are within a certain age range (usually 1-4 years) aren’t (necessarily) breaking the law, even if one is underage.
Last time I went to a reddit thread because of a search for some arcane information, I found it disgusting how many of the comments were OBVIOUSLY bots. I even checked a few comment histories just to be sure.
Lol, the whole ‘non-binary’ thing is so weird to me, since I like the lads and the lassies. As long as they tick the attractive boxes, like confident, smart, and being into me, it’s like getting a christmas morning present every time I wake up next to them.
Fuck me, how did you know it was that 2009 memory? There’s a few from 2016, 2017, and 2019 that haunt me, but 2009 stands out in its horror.
Huh. I just read the first iron druid book and wasn’t real impressed. Are the ink&sigil books better, in your opinion? Also, the culture books are great, totally go for them.
I’m an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let’s fucking go!
And the wheel of time turns again…
On the topic of pokemon, between the various games and the anime, there are a lot of places that are just plain awesome, and I seem to recall plenty of people that live in the wilderness perfectly happily. It seems like a paradise world, with enough space for everyone to have wilderness if they want it, city life if they want that, etc.
in a world with still very few people to compete with
My anthropology knowledge is pretty paltry, but isn’t that the opposite of how humanity spread? One slow expansion at a time, as a tribe grew too big and then split and settled in the next valley over seems to be more in line with how much of it worked. Some expansions may have been quite different, no doubt, like oceania or the east asia -> north america -> south america journey, but on average you would be relatively near other human tribes, right?
Sadness in the highlights, comedy right below :(
Two planes that got stuck in sand and had to be destroyed? HA! HA, ha!
Mate, I have ublock origin, and the website still tries to run google analytics.
I get your point, but the answer for most of your questions is that the supreme court would fast track everything and shut him down, democrats in congress would backstab each other and biden in an effort to show that they were taking the high ground, and all of the media would spew unending “biden is violating the constitution!” diatribes. Maybe he still should have done all of it, but…
Oh, wait, there was one question that wouldn’t have been covered there: the israwel one. Biden wants to lick israwel’s groin just as much as any republican.
Lol, this is just about every teenager fiction ever. I used to laugh when my family watched dragonball z, because it just seemed like the way two kids ‘play/fight’ when they’re in kindergarten: “I win because I’m super saiyan!” “No, I win because I’m super sayain x2!!!” Just try harder (scream louder) and you win.