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In Topic: Charlie Stross (LAUNDRY series and other geek spy vs Cthulu goodness)
29 January 2026 - 11:08 PM
Started The Regicide Report today. Two immediate thoughts.
1- I missed Bob and it's good to be back with him.
2- This book would have been much harder to release before now due to events around a certain monarch. -
In Topic: Comsere/Sanderson deal AppleTV
29 January 2026 - 04:38 PM
QuickTidal, on 29 January 2026 - 04:17 PM, said:JPK, on 29 January 2026 - 04:09 PM, said:Maybe having other people working with him might help trim the bloat from his more recent works. Cause his editor sure isn't doing it anymore.
So this has a reason. The person who edited WoK, WoR, and Oathbringer (and everything Sando wrote until then) Moshe Feder retired in 2020, so the last two books were edited by someone else who lets Sanderson drone on FAR more than he should.
JPK, on 29 January 2026 - 04:09 PM, said:That said, I don't blame him for fighting for more creative control after what Amazon did to WoT. The bare bones were there but there were so many creative liberties taken by the show runners that caused significant creative shifts.
See, my view of it (as someone who felt the books were far too bloated) comes from my wife who knew nothing of WOT books...but ADORED the TV show and could not wait to watch week to week and was devastated when they cancelled it...that casual audience loving your show is SO much more important than pleasing only books fans. And as someone who read those books, I thought all the decisions they made from S2 onwards were solid creative changes. Shrug.
1 - I knew something had changed with the editing but this makes a lot of sense. But again, hopefully working with screenwriter's and producers will help reign him in a bit regarding his worst tendencies.
2 - I hear you regarding the casual audience vs the die hard argument. I do. That said, you can tread a finer line with those changes and manage to make most people happy. (Never gonna get everyone). I think most of us here can agree that Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the greatest adaptations to be made to this day. Part of the reason why is because they stayed to close to the source material. They had a great story to begin with and the popularity of the series is where a lot of your fanbase is going to come from. Now, that's not saying that LotR didn't take creative liberties, cause they did. Tom Bombadil and Faromir both immediately come to mind. However, neither of those changes significantly changed the underlying source. Bombadil's removal streamlined the story by sacrificing world building that wasn't strictly necessary to the direct story being told and Faromir's story still works.
I just have a hard time with how a lot of adaptations seemingly have the hubris of "I like what you did, and so do thousands of other people, but let's make it better." And it's very rare that the outcome is greater than what they started with. -
In Topic: Comsere/Sanderson deal AppleTV
29 January 2026 - 04:09 PM
Maybe having other people working with him might help trim the bloat from his more recent works. Cause his editor sure isn't doing it anymore.
That said, I don't blame him for fighting for more creative control after what Amazon did to WoT. The bare bones were there but there were so many creative liberties taken by the show runners that caused significant creative shifts.
There's also another great example of that ongoing on HBO with House of the Dragon. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
26 January 2026 - 04:30 PM
Both myself and my daughter have Kobo readers as well. I've got the clara color and she got my old b&w clara. I still prefer to read dead-tree when I'm at home but use the ereader before bed and for any day to day traveling. -
In Topic: JPK's Classics Read
22 January 2026 - 04:34 PM
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 January 2026 - 07:05 AM, said:TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 13 November 2025 - 01:09 PM, said:Having said that, Van Helsing is one of those films I know is objectively terrible and an absolute travesty to the source character, but I kind of enjoy it anyway. I can neither explain nor justify it even to myself!
On the book, I studied Dracula in school and enjoyed reading it again as an adult. Haven't ever gotten round to Frankenstein but it's on my list to do so!
Bought a copy of Frankenstein today
I really hope you like it. I found that one to be particularly beautifully written.
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