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re: They're Making A Movie of The Kingkiller Chronicle: The Name of the Wind
Posted on 4/15/16 at 11:28 am to boxcarbarney
Posted on 4/15/16 at 11:28 am to boxcarbarney
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What is it with these writers? Martin with ASoIaF, this guy, Lynch with the Gentlemen Bastards... These aholes need to get to work.
Doesn't Lynch has serious depression issues? But yeah, the other two neckbeardy fricks need to get their shite together.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 11:30 am to RadBro
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Anyone know when the last book is coming out?
Sometime around the 13th or 14th of Way Too Damned Long From Now.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 12:02 pm to cigsmcgee
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Sounds alot like The Book of the New Sun series, which would also be nearly impossible to adapt.
Gene Wolfe is a God though
Posted on 4/15/16 at 12:08 pm to TigerNutwhack
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Doesn't Lynch has serious depression issues? But yeah, the other two neckbeardy fricks need to get their shite together.
When Lynch isn't depressed and battling anxiety, he produces books quickly. The Thorn of Emberlain is set to come out in July. That's, what, 4 books? He produced Lies and Red Skies within a year or so of each other, then got fricked by depression until 2013 when he produced Republic and now, just about 3 years later, he's got book 4 coming out.
GRRM published the first three AOIAF books within 4 years, then two books in the next 11 years. It's been five more years since Dance. Lynch is no where near GRRM's level of frickitude. But if he can't keep his depression down, he won't finish the series for quite a long time.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 12:53 pm to LoveThatMoney
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GRRM published the first three AOIAF books within 4 years, then two books in the next 11 years. It's been five more years since Dance.
Yeah... I think the scale of time between books in the series really helps illustrate to people who don't understand why so many are angry at GRRM just why we're pissed. The dude has already proven that he's capable of churning the books out when he wants to. He just doesn't want to. I don't buy any of his BS about the Knot. He acts like that was so difficult to overcome that it was on the scale of designing the Saturn 5 moon rocket. Whatever, George. If I millions of dollars to support me and fund my life and had all day, every day, to just sit and think about it, like he does, I could have plotted a way out of that in a week. The real problem is that he's lazy and spends his time either basking in the glory of the fame this has brought him, or doing nothing. He acts like it's all so complex at this point that he has to spend all day working out the minutiae and moving forward inch by painful inch, re-write after re-write to kill plot holes, when actually he's just not working on it at all.
This post was edited on 4/15/16 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:10 am to LoveThatMoney
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he tends to be unable to avoid the pitfalls of the tangent storyline that makes the reader want to punch him in the dick. It's nice that Kvothe goes to learn to frick fairies and shite, but good lord, move on from it.
I legit forgot about that storyline, and now I think I intentionally did it. I remember like half of the second book being absolutely bonkers absurd. I still don't know if anything happened until like the last one hundred pages of the book.
He better get his shite together in the third book.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:17 am to FootballNostradamus
Its been what? Like 5 years or so since Book 2 was out? I am not holding out hope but I still really like the series. The whole Fae tangent didn't bother me as much as it bothered others. I understood that it was probably 90% bullshite since Kvothe is an unreliable narrator. But I can understand why it is so reviled.
FYI, Lionsgate pitched this to Rothfuss as both a movie and a series.
FYI, Lionsgate pitched this to Rothfuss as both a movie and a series.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:20 am to Green Chili Tiger
Read that book last year and I really enjoyed it. I need to read the second one.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:55 am to Fun Bunch
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The whole Fae tangent didn't bother me as much as it bothered others. I understood that it was probably 90% bullshite since Kvothe is an unreliable narrator.
I think it is 90% bullshite for the same reason, and that's what made it even worse.
It's fine to have things happen or deeds done that Kvothe exaggerates. That's part of the fun of the series. It's not okay to devote like 70 pages or more to an extended bizarre sex fantasy that the reader suspects is bullshite anyway. It was boring, super cringe-worthy because it reads like Rothfuss' personal fantasy (yuck), and was just drawn way, way too far out.
He could have cut that down to 10 pages or less. The whole point of the Fae tangent was for Kvothe to encounter the Cthaeh. Rotfuss should have had Kvothe get sucked into the Fae realm, sleep with Felurian for the sake of his braggadociosness, but describe it quickly and in passing, and then encounter the Cthaeh. Boom, boom, boom. Back to the story.
The Felurian tangent is the perfect example of why editors exist. Without an editor, you tend to end up with a neckbeard who has an otherwise GREAT story going off the rails by and embarrassing himself by indulging his own brand of kink in a tangent that lasts for a quarter of the book. I don't know what his editor was thinking here or how much power he/she had, if any. The problem with fantasy presses is that they typically have the castoffs of all other types of publishing and once an author strikes it really big like Rothfuss, nobody on the editing staff has enough gravity to intercede.
This post was edited on 4/18/16 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 4/18/16 at 1:00 pm to boxcarbarney
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What is it with these writers? Martin with ASoIaF, this guy, Lynch with the Gentlemen Bastards... These aholes need to get to work.
Don't forget Robert Jordan who legitimately died
Posted on 4/18/16 at 1:53 pm to St Augustine
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Don't forget Robert Jordan who legitimately died
It's a tough genre for fans. Almost all of the books are terrible, but the ones that are good will blow your mind. Unfortunately, the mind-blowing ones are written by guys who die before they finish their work, get fame-drunk and lazy, or fall into deep depressions.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 3:42 pm to St Augustine
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Don't forget Robert Jordan who legitimately died
Or Frank Herbert, whose son ruined his legacy.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 8:00 am to boxcarbarney
Frank Herbert's son is like those people who beg for money on gofundme. No shame.
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