potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoYou wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1489arrow-down118
arrow-up1471arrow-down1imageYou wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.lemmy.worldpotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squaremysteriousquote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·5 months ago So," Chronicler said. “Subjunctive mood.” “At best,” Kvothe said, “it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.”
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·5 months agoWhat offends me is not finishing a damned book series.
minus-squaremysteriousquote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 months agoThe most frustrating incomplete series ever. I can’t even recommend the first two books to people in good conscience anymore.
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoSame. I don’t think it’s coming and if it does, I don’t even know anymore. I think maybe he outgrew the story he was telling.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoOne day Brandon Sanderson will have to take it upon himself to finish another one
minus-squareTheRealKuni@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoI absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this: I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoHe definitely can’t mimic the style. Just as he couldn’t mimic Robert Jordan. But he could write the last 3 books of the Wheel of Time in his own style.
minus-squareTheRealKuni@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoWhich was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoThat is true, but I’d rather have a Sanderson-style finisher than none at all
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoPlease no. :( Just leave them be if that’s how it has to be. Don’t mutilate their poor corpses.
What offends me is not finishing a damned book series.
The most frustrating incomplete series ever. I can’t even recommend the first two books to people in good conscience anymore.
Same. I don’t think it’s coming and if it does, I don’t even know anymore. I think maybe he outgrew the story he was telling.
One day Brandon Sanderson will have to take it upon himself to finish another one
I absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this:
I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.
He definitely can’t mimic the style. Just as he couldn’t mimic Robert Jordan.
But he could write the last 3 books of the Wheel of Time in his own style.
Which was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.
That is true, but I’d rather have a Sanderson-style finisher than none at all
Please no. :(
Just leave them be if that’s how it has to be. Don’t mutilate their poor corpses.