You wrote:
“There is no way that a “Song of Ice and Fire” has a greater scale and scope, greater character development, richer characters, and more plot twists or more outright suprises than “A Wheel of Ice and Fire”.”
Since you can’t even get the title of the series (Wheel of Time) right, I think I can’t take your input too seriously.
“You need to read more than the first book in a 14 book series to really make a judgements like that don’t you think?”
No, I don’t think that.
“It didn’t outright suck but it wasn’t at the same level.”
True. The problem with Rothfuss is that he is self-indulgent in his writing. That only showed up in the second book, so it doesn’t have the same tightness of pacing and focus of the first book.
“Of course Rothfiss is even more annoyingly liberal than Martin and that is saying something.”
Yes, it is.
I only messed up a title, you only read 1/14th of a series and decided you knew everything about it. You are simply incorrect.