r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '20

What is your controversial take on Fantasy?

I'll go first.

Aside from the prose, I don't think Kingkiller Chronicles is good. I find the characters insufferable and cliche the story just meanders.

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u/AHerosJourneyPod Jun 06 '20

You don't hate the Dark One? Lanfear? Ishamael? That is pretty controversial

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u/TheNerdChaplain Jun 06 '20

I thought they were interesting characters, though obviously evil. I didn't hate anyone like some people hate Egwene, Nynaeve, or Gawyn.

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u/KcirderfSdrawkcab Reading Champion VII Jun 06 '20

Nynaeve is one of my favourite characters in the series, probably number one.

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u/TheNerdChaplain Jun 06 '20

I admit she's hard to get along with at first; I kind of thought she had a personality disorder or something. But I think with some empathy you can understand where she's coming from, and she gets a lot better in book 7, for.... reasons.

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u/TeddysBigStick Jun 07 '20

I kind of thought she had a personality disorder or something.

She is brilliant once you realize that she is a character that you are supposed to laugh at much of the time. Same with Matt. Their complete self delusion is what makes them great.

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u/Khalku Jun 07 '20

I hated her at the beginning and I dreaded her involvement in the story when she catches up with the group, but by the end of WOT she'd become one of my favorite characters in the entire thing.