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I think Sanderson have become too successful to edit. He either doesn't listen/trust his editors or they don't dare too much and/or are...

Yeah I think there's a pretty huge difference between intentionally telling a long and meandering story, especially when it suits the...

Random Catch-up Time! I’m at 31/100 for a read-what-you-own challenge and am enjoying it. Ronald Malfi: been meaning to get to him for...

The fantasy heists was my favorite part of the netflix series.

Yeah, they're so gross, but their place completely fits in the worldbuilding. Huh. That's pretty darn accurate. When those details are...

I think when the faffing around is actually the point, like in Jonathan Strange, its fine (but still a matter of taste of course). The...

What, you didn't enjoy "and then they camped in the woods for six months. Let's drop in on them and show you how boring that was?" She...

I started re-reading the Harry Potter series - I was in Porto on vacation a few weeks ago, wanted an easy vacation read, and it was the...

I've never read it, but my general thought is that if a book is boring, I stop reading it rather than holding out on it picking up.

I’ve stopped books 2/3rds of the way in before because I’ve realized they weren’t going to get better.

Not just "if you want to..." It is, "if the differences between humans and non-humans are too small, you don't really need the...

The biggest problem is that in most games the different species are just humans in disguise. Humans with pointy ears, humans with...

So it's avoid cultural stereotypes masquerading as species?

Here are 3 pictures I found on the internet of the new Atlas of Faerun map (none of the whole thing sadly), but it might just be the...

I think the opening post was very interesting right up to painting event based adventures as railroading and map & key based adventures...