I was halfway into the first one before life got in the way. I thought it was incredible and engaging writing, but I heard a lot of Rothfuss hate and heard he really dropped the ball in WMF though.Second one was like a bad fanfic. First one I thought was fantastic though. This series will never get finished, so really no reason to go any deeper than that.
He took his book money and has used it to just do nothing book related for over a decade. He co-wrote some Rick and Morty dungeons and dragons stuff, podcasts, other random crap. At one point recently his publisher or editor or someone tweeted she hadn’t read a single word of the third book and didn’t think he had actually written any of it at all. So it’s not that he hasn’t finished it, he hasn’t even started it.I was halfway into the first one before life got in the way. I thought it was incredible and engaging writing, but I heard a lot of Rothfuss hate and heard he really dropped the ball in WMF though.
WTF is he doing? Only a third book and he can't finish it?
Ah, sorry to hear that, what a faggot. Seems like the Robert Jordan curse got him.He took his book money and has used it to just do nothing book related for over a decade. He co-wrote some Rick and Morty dungeons and dragons stuff, podcasts, other random crap. At one point recently his publisher or editor or someone tweeted she hadn’t read a single word of the third book and didn’t think he had actually written any of it at all. So it’s not that he hasn’t finished it, he hasn’t even started it.
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I think Palum nailed it a few years agoI reread book one prior to book two. I will say the charm wore off on a second reading and even further after I finished reading book two. Basically, Rothfuss is very good at two things: detailing out a setting (worldbuilding) and building anticipation. Everything else he's mediocre to shitty at. Book one had a great introduction and built tons of anticipation for the story and the development of the character. Book two then shat all over that and said yea basically here's all this dumb shit and SSSEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXX. I have very little hope for three ever coming out much less being good.
Honestly, I think Rothfuss worked super hard developing his lifelong rpg character idea into book one and had thought so much about it and the world it all worked. Then book two he panicked, discovered he's really not that great a story teller and popped out every cliche he could get away with. Finally he got depressed and realized he was a hack trying to write anything satisfying for book three so here we are.
Seems like the Robert Jordan curse got him.
AgreedI think Palum nailed it a few years ago
It is a short story from the perspective of Kvolth's farie buddy from the inn. Reading the hate he got on Twitter for putting out this instead of the 3rd book was better than his books.
Link? I don’t have Twitter so can’t search it.It is a short story from the perspective of Kvolth's farie buddy from the inn. Reading the hate he got on Twitter for putting out this instead of the 3rd book was better than his books.
Link? I don’t have Twitter so can’t search it.