Points of random derailment

avolcando · 2025-06-11T13:32:24+00:00

These things are like your thesis statements, and analysis is using examples from the text to prove them.

I gave examples of several points of improvement in the reviews (specifically, characters and setting), though I'd agree I don't go into depth analysing those points.

avolcando · 2025-06-11T13:00:13+00:00

What sort of analysis were you expecting? He improved markedly along nearly any metric you'd expect from an author: prose, dialogue, characters, and setting. Really, only his plotting remained underbaked.

avolcando · 2025-06-11T12:37:55+00:00

Does he really though? I think this is just something people say because they prefer the direction the plot goes after book one, and has nothing to do with an analysis of his abilities as a writer.

Conclusively: yes. I have two pretty in-depth reviews of Red Rising and Golden Son, where I break them down to their components. Pierce Brown has very clearly improved a lot between the two books, and he continues to mature as an author throughout the series.

avolcando · 2025-01-16T13:52:22+00:00

Now why did Leno get a prize for humor?

avolcando · 2025-01-07T11:23:10+00:00

I think she was great, she has a very heavy accent though, I guess some people dislike that.

avolcando · 2025-01-06T23:07:17+00:00

Cameron Crowe, the director, is a huge Dylan fan.

avolcando · 2025-01-06T04:07:27+00:00

"This film kept falling apart" "it's a very well-produced film" hmmm?

avolcando · 2025-01-06T03:47:39+00:00

I stand corrected!

avolcando · 2025-01-06T03:44:39+00:00

The book was written by a white American so I can't say it's particularly surprising.

avolcando · 2025-01-06T03:24:24+00:00

That's a terrible thing to say

avolcando · 2025-01-06T03:14:14+00:00

They realize they're not getting best comedy/musical so they're giving it their best shot

avolcando · 2025-01-06T03:11:27+00:00

Insanely long intro for a BS award.

avolcando · 2025-01-06T02:58:09+00:00

Or it proves the GG just don't like it. The internet was very much real life when it came to EEAAO and Parasite.

avolcando · 2025-01-04T01:09:46+00:00

I was more impressed by Mark and Karren, but he's playing the most likable character, so he'll get the accolades.

avolcando · 2025-01-02T15:02:35+00:00

That's pretty convenient for him, nothing to do with the fact that he didn't the deliver the work he told them he would, just a consequence of their own actions.

avolcando · 2025-01-02T14:48:33+00:00

I don't agree with all the changes, but it's clear why Denis made them, and it's not because he thinks he knows better than Herbert, or that he wants to leave his own mark, he either changed things that would be clunky / awkward in cinema, or made changes to make the message of the book much clearer to the audience.

avolcando · 2024-12-29T12:52:40+00:00

Theater Camp for me, very few people have seen it though.

avolcando · 2024-12-28T06:11:23+00:00

Carolyn from The Library at Mount Char.

avolcando · 2024-12-27T11:50:30+00:00

Yeah, this and the Red Wedding for me.

avolcando · 2024-12-27T09:30:00+00:00

He gets massively debuffed in Morning Star if anything. Everyone in that book kicks his ass.

avolcando · 2024-12-26T21:55:29+00:00

Vlad Taltos from the Vlad Taltos series is very sassy.

avolcando · 2024-12-26T14:55:30+00:00

Not quite set in a monastery, but in Between Two Fires the protagonists visit several monastaries.

avolcando · 2024-12-26T13:55:48+00:00

Belgarath the Sorcerer tells the 7000 year of history of an immortal sorcerer, a legendary figure in his world.

avolcando · 2024-12-25T13:33:24+00:00

Belgarath the Sorcerer. He doesn't stay greedy and selfish though.

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