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George R.R. Martin Finally Finishes Writing Sequel To ‘Erin Brockovich’ (theonion.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Flipper@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you get 1.25 good books?

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Write 75% of a book where the only thing that happens is a teenage boy describes his sexual prowess with a faerie goddess using terms like "tongue twister of the five winds" or some such bullshit.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rothfuss has unironically stated that he's had trouble with the third book because he's matured too much to write that shit again lol

I personally didn't mind it in an unreliable narrator/mythic ballad kind of way but a lot of the problems it has is that it sure seems like it would require a literal interpretation to make the plot threads connect in the end.

[–] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Read the second one, and you'll see