re: Nerd Alert: Rothfuss/Lionsgate sign huge deal to adpat Kingkiller Chronicles

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dude needs to have someone tell him when he's gone off the rails

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Oh man. This. I LOVE the world he created, his characters, his actual writing itself - stylistically, the undercurrent of mystery, just the whole mix... it's intoxicating and I lose myself in it, BUT dang, he could use someone who had the guts to tell him that certain sections just suck and are ridiculous, cringe-worthy, and embarrassing to the point of taking away from all the rest.

I have a feeling that everyone around him became sycophantic - at first because it IS, on the whole, so good, and especially, later, because the first book was so successful. It may also be his way to just not take criticism. But there's no way that no one around him thought - at least to themselves - that devoting 100 pages to what are clearly (embarrassingly) his own bedroom fantasies without advancing the plot was a very bad idea. It's clear though that either they didn't speak up or weren't listened to, because it's there, in all its unnecessary, time-wasting, diversionary glory.