| Doobie_wop said: A movie adaptation would be impossible. I thought about it long and hard, but it can't be done. It's not a book based around action or adventure, which means that they'd have to rely on the art direction and acting, which would have to be perfect. I can't think of a current young, handsome actor that could take the leading role, but a young Johnny Depp would have probably been perfect. As for the book, I liked it more. It's a lot more straight forward and it isn't weighed down too much by a lackluster backstory mythology like the last one. I'm also not a fan of Denna and I'm guessing that's Patricks intention, but it's dragging on for way to long and the brief encounters with a lot of the smaller chracters were far more interesting and should been explored. The book also stayed way too long in the Fae, that was just ridiculous and at one point I just started to skip pages. |
YES.
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I'm making this a wall of text just to make it harder to read since I can't figure out how to black out text. Sincer. Apology. Anyways, yes, my thoughts exactly. I keep wanting to think Rothfuss doesn't want us to like Denna but he just spends so much time on her. We got it perfectly well in the first book that he likes Denna and she's flaky. He doesn't need to spend 100 pages on it. He just seems to like her so much but she's just such a bad character that I don't see how you can like her. Even when he tries to make us like her when she's talking to the runaway I still didn't care. She still kind of a bitch and really annoying. And then there's the money troubles. While I loved Devi and the duel with Devi was incredible, everything else having to do with money is just a waste. Again, perfectly well established Kvothe has crap for money, no need to spend page after page after page on it. It's frustrating he dwells so much on that and then completely skips over things that could be interesting like he passage to Severen. I loved all the other interactions at the university. I barely remembered Will and Simm from the first book but now I love them and all the other minor characters from The University. I loved him in Alveron's court, that all was really cool, it just sucked when he started focusong on Denna again. Then there was the Fae. I was pretty excited about this part since a friend spoiled it for me and I kept waiting for him to enter the Fae while looking for the bandits. At first, this seemed cool and interesting, and then he just kept staying there. He went on for sooooooooo long and I eventually started skimming too. His time in Adem almost started feeling like that with his training, but it generally stayed interesting thankfully (I just got to where he got his sword and took the passage of the stone test), though I assume this is because there was minimal mention of Denna. The only thing I'm worried about now with 100 pages left is he still has to go back to the University! I expected him to be fully through with The University in this book with almost no mention of it in the third book but looks like I might be wrong. Hopefully the last 100 pages change this because I don't want to spend the first 300 pages of the next book learning about how Kvothe is having troubles making tuition.
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Anyways, I'll probably finish it tonight so we'll see how it ends.
