potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYou wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1492arrow-down118
arrow-up1474arrow-down1imageYou wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.lemmy.worldpotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoOne day Brandon Sanderson will have to take it upon himself to finish another one
minus-squareTheRealKuni@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoI absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this: I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoHe definitely can’t mimic the style. Just as he couldn’t mimic Robert Jordan. But he could write the last 3 books of the Wheel of Time in his own style.
minus-squareTheRealKuni@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWhich was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThat is true, but I’d rather have a Sanderson-style finisher than none at all
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoPlease no. :( Just leave them be if that’s how it has to be. Don’t mutilate their poor corpses.
One day Brandon Sanderson will have to take it upon himself to finish another one
I absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this:
I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.
He definitely can’t mimic the style. Just as he couldn’t mimic Robert Jordan.
But he could write the last 3 books of the Wheel of Time in his own style.
Which was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.
That is true, but I’d rather have a Sanderson-style finisher than none at all
Please no. :(
Just leave them be if that’s how it has to be. Don’t mutilate their poor corpses.