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Gillian
is 11% done
Currently seems it will be the story of the world's specialist smartest guy being cooler and smarter than everyone else, but this has been recommended by people whose taste I trust. And the Newarre scenes don't exactly support that theory (though they don't explicitly refute it either).
— May 21, 2025 08:24PM
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Gillian
is 12% done
Maybe I was misremembering? Or got PR's name mixed up with another author? Or maybe it was just people saying he was better than Brandon Sanderson which for sure is true 😂 but also not that hard. Anyways I read some GR reviews and yeah, it looks like it's about the world's specialist smartest boy after all, and apparently he doesn't even get out of school by the end of this 700 page book so I prob will DNF.
— May 21, 2025 09:06PM
Gillian
is 11% done
Kvothe is the world's most annoying teenager but I did like his old man innkeeper persona so I have hope. (Very clever of PR to start with that).
I would never have guessed this was from 2007, it feels very 80s, in ways both good (quality of writing, confidence in character and world-building) and bad ("historical" misogyny seemingly unquestioned [yet], basically all male cast [so far]).
— May 21, 2025 08:20PM
I would never have guessed this was from 2007, it feels very 80s, in ways both good (quality of writing, confidence in character and world-building) and bad ("historical" misogyny seemingly unquestioned [yet], basically all male cast [so far]).
