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re: So Wired did a hit piece on Brandon Sanderson of all people
Posted on 3/30/23 at 2:34 pm to boxcarbarney
Posted on 3/30/23 at 2:34 pm to boxcarbarney
Neal Stephenson is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the best writers from a stylistic/prosaic standpoint in Scifi/Fantasy. Octavia Butler is also up there.
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Posted on 4/2/23 at 4:25 am to Fun Bunch
I’m at least glad the only time I hear about this article is someone saying what a piece of garbage it is. The good thing is you can tell Sanderson us a good dude even through all the BS.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 2:55 pm to Froman
Yeah I never hear a bad thing about Sanderson anywhere else. Seems like a good dude who works hard. But some people just want to watch the world burn.
Even if he was an a-hole, I wouldn’t care bc I like his books. I think Stephen king is an unhinged loon but respect his talent. Wish he was better at endings but I still view dark tower as an achievement in prose and creativity
Even if he was an a-hole, I wouldn’t care bc I like his books. I think Stephen king is an unhinged loon but respect his talent. Wish he was better at endings but I still view dark tower as an achievement in prose and creativity
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:06 pm to biglego
Journalists need to start getting their asses kicked again when they start talking that shite
Posted on 4/3/23 at 3:33 pm to Fun Bunch
There seems to be a LOT to unpack from the writer...
He seems to loathe a quiet, healthy lifestyle. He seems unfamiliar with loyalty to family and friends who have proven themselves worthy of it. He also comes across as an elitist who becomes pissy once he realizes that what he considers to be refined excellence is considered par (at best) by plenty of others. It's almost like he takes a personal affrontery to people liking things he doesn't care for.
So he finds someone whose work has made him a success but hasn't let it change him from the quiet, centered person he seems to be and his response is to trash him for... what? Not letting his success make him a cocaine-riddled whoremonger?
This "interview" is a perfect example of the sad state of our journalism industry today: ridiculously overly dramatic for no sake other than to draw eyes.
He seems to loathe a quiet, healthy lifestyle. He seems unfamiliar with loyalty to family and friends who have proven themselves worthy of it. He also comes across as an elitist who becomes pissy once he realizes that what he considers to be refined excellence is considered par (at best) by plenty of others. It's almost like he takes a personal affrontery to people liking things he doesn't care for.
So he finds someone whose work has made him a success but hasn't let it change him from the quiet, centered person he seems to be and his response is to trash him for... what? Not letting his success make him a cocaine-riddled whoremonger?
This "interview" is a perfect example of the sad state of our journalism industry today: ridiculously overly dramatic for no sake other than to draw eyes.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 8:46 pm to Fun Bunch
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this holier than thou journo
Unless this is like this guys' "between two ferns" ripoff schtick, he deserves to never get another interview in his fricking life.
You don't have to be fawning to folks who grant you interviews, but trashing them seems like a classic "Millenial" move (no offense to you Millenials out there who aren't giant pricks - both of you
).Posted on 4/3/23 at 8:51 pm to Freauxzen
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MOST fiction now suffers from mediocre prose. Fantasy or no
All it takes to shock the system is to read any random page of a Fitzgerald novel/novella. Or Hemingway. Or Twain. You then look at what passes for "good" fiction today and it's laughably bland from a wordsmith standpoint. Has to be a metaphor in there for the modern world somewhere.
Those frickers weren't boring, either, so the dickhead who wrote this thing wouldn't be so "meh" about it. Of course, most of them would eat him alive if they even deigned to grant him five minutes.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:02 pm to Ace Midnight
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All it takes to shock the system is to read any random page of a Fitzgerald novel
I know this is like putting the Detroit Redwings up against a peewee hockey team, but I just opened to a random page (pinky swear) of The Great Gatsby:
quote:
"In the music-room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano. He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
When Klipspringer had played The Love Nest he turned around on the bench and searched unhappily for Gatsby in the gloom.
"I'm all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn't play. I'm all out of prac-"
"Don't talk so much, old sport," commanded Gatsby. "Play!"
"In the morning,
In the evening,
Ain't we got fun-"
Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air."
This post was edited on 4/3/23 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 4/5/23 at 3:09 pm to Ace Midnight
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