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Reminders, Readings, and Ridiculousness.

Jan 21, 2009 08:08

Just a quick reminder to everyone that the deadline for the Tower of the Hand contest arrives tomorrow. E-mail in your guesses about if and when we will be seeing ADWD in 2009.

On another note, here is a lengthy, yet interesting article by Steve Tompkins of The Cimmerian about the wait for ADWD. We get a lukewarm mention in the article, ( Read more... )

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The Cimmerian anonymous January 21 2009, 17:03:41 UTC

You give Tompkins too much credit. He's less an "adept writer" and more a self-infatuated one. Reading his essay was an enormous chore. He's obviously immersed himself in too much early fantasy, adopted a similar tone and fallen in love with it. Rarely have I seen so much overcooked prose larded with recondite references and convoluted arguments revolving endlessly around themselves without ever getting to the point. I don't know if Tompkins ever convinces anyone of his arguments. I suspect he just bores people into submission.

As for nicknames, Darkstar is still stupider than Lady Stoneheart.

Re: The Cimmerian anonymous January 21 2009, 20:42:40 UTC

Amen to that. He references King squeezing out the final volumes of The Dark Tower, but quite honestly, this guy appears to have the opposite problem - diarrhea of the pen. Did he get paid by the syllable? I'm a pretty intelligent person, but halfway through the article, I'm pulling out a dictionary and saying "WTF is his point?"

Re: The Cimmerian anonymous January 22 2009, 21:19:59 UTC

And according to what I had heard, King finished the Dark Tower series after getting into a bad car accident, out of fear that he would die with the series unfinished.

You'd think Martin would get the hint.

Re: The Cimmerian anonymous January 21 2009, 22:50:16 UTC

Oh, good. It wasn't just me. :)

Re: The Cimmerian scorpiknox January 22 2009, 02:44:41 UTC

Yeah. I agree. I am fairly well read, and consider my self a decent enough writer so as not to embarrass myself on message boards, but jesus he's a dense read. It was like reading stereo instructions (shout-out to Beetlejuice), in Latvian. Where did he get his thesaurus, the future ( ... )

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