re: They're Making A Movie of The Kingkiller Chronicle: The Name of the Wind

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The whole Fae tangent didn't bother me as much as it bothered others. I understood that it was probably 90% bullshite since Kvothe is an unreliable narrator.

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I think it is 90% bullshite for the same reason, and that's what made it even worse.

It's fine to have things happen or deeds done that Kvothe exaggerates. That's part of the fun of the series. It's not okay to devote like 70 pages or more to an extended bizarre sex fantasy that the reader suspects is bullshite anyway. It was boring, super cringe-worthy because it reads like Rothfuss' personal fantasy (yuck), and was just drawn way, way too far out.

He could have cut that down to 10 pages or less. The whole point of the Fae tangent was for Kvothe to encounter the Cthaeh. Rotfuss should have had Kvothe get sucked into the Fae realm, sleep with Felurian for the sake of his braggadociosness, but describe it quickly and in passing, and then encounter the Cthaeh. Boom, boom, boom. Back to the story.

The Felurian tangent is the perfect example of why editors exist. Without an editor, you tend to end up with a neckbeard who has an otherwise GREAT story going off the rails by and embarrassing himself by indulging his own brand of kink in a tangent that lasts for a quarter of the book. I don't know what his editor was thinking here or how much power he/she had, if any. The problem with fantasy presses is that they typically have the castoffs of all other types of publishing and once an author strikes it really big like Rothfuss, nobody on the editing staff has enough gravity to intercede.