I recal lots of joking about being paid by the word, even he himself made jokes about the length of his novels, when he was dying while trying to finish the last of the story he said Tor would have to invent a new binding method because he was going to fit it all into the last one, no matter what. Sadly he didn’t have enough time but left enough worldbuilding behind.
I think they might have been some of my favorates in part because of the length tbh, I’m a very fast reader.
Lotr’s time use and verbosity is nothing to me, I’ve read Robert Jordan’s works.
I think this is the first time an opinion has triggered my gag reflex.
yup, shit that we already have will start being gated behind the fee of the subscription
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I used to call support to see if the internet service was down when I couldn’t connect, now I browse to a status page to see if the phone service is down, and I work in tech support.
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right? I read this and my first thought was “only 20?!”
Us rare ones pay a price for it too. Just about my whole family is hard right republican and religious idiots. Life with them has not been great.
they don’t accept sources outside their local news and social circle where they accept everything as truthful and any outsider is automatically untrustworthy. I’ve run into someone utterly convinced that their local schools were forcing kids to become trans against thier will, because they heard it repeated by thier idiot republican social circle. No evidense required. Instead in thier mind burden of proof is on me for saying that’s ridiculous.
Even when they don’t wholeheartedly believe the lies they’ve been goven they will pretend to for fear of their social circle response.
You get what you deserve! #jokerwasright
intense pacing? it’s a gd speedrun of it is what it is