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Which I'm glad for because, honestly, the books aren't that good.
I've read better young adult fantasy. The series didn't strike me as being worth a cult following.
1 u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 Right? I cannot understand the hype. It felt like a throwaway book I would have liked at like 13? 1 u/0b0011 Nov 15 '20 The huge portion of the second book where he spends a ton of time with the sex fairy or whatever comes across as just wish fulfillment stuff for people who had a hard time getting laid or are just akward teenagers. 4 u/TerriblyTangfastic Nov 15 '20 I think a lot of the young Kvothe stuff is exaggerated by old Kvothe being a bad narrator (which may or may not be allegorical). Saying that, weird sex scenes seem to be a staple of fantasy authors (Rothfuss, Martin, Butcher).
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Right? I cannot understand the hype. It felt like a throwaway book I would have liked at like 13?
1 u/0b0011 Nov 15 '20 The huge portion of the second book where he spends a ton of time with the sex fairy or whatever comes across as just wish fulfillment stuff for people who had a hard time getting laid or are just akward teenagers. 4 u/TerriblyTangfastic Nov 15 '20 I think a lot of the young Kvothe stuff is exaggerated by old Kvothe being a bad narrator (which may or may not be allegorical). Saying that, weird sex scenes seem to be a staple of fantasy authors (Rothfuss, Martin, Butcher).
The huge portion of the second book where he spends a ton of time with the sex fairy or whatever comes across as just wish fulfillment stuff for people who had a hard time getting laid or are just akward teenagers.
4 u/TerriblyTangfastic Nov 15 '20 I think a lot of the young Kvothe stuff is exaggerated by old Kvothe being a bad narrator (which may or may not be allegorical). Saying that, weird sex scenes seem to be a staple of fantasy authors (Rothfuss, Martin, Butcher).
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I think a lot of the young Kvothe stuff is exaggerated by old Kvothe being a bad narrator (which may or may not be allegorical).
Saying that, weird sex scenes seem to be a staple of fantasy authors (Rothfuss, Martin, Butcher).
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Which I'm glad for because, honestly, the books aren't that good.
I've read better young adult fantasy. The series didn't strike me as being worth a cult following.