[Deadboy]

so i picked this one up on a random chance and found it very good..i would even say very very good.
and i would very much recommend you GO BUY IT NOW!!

and after finishing it i go looking for the sequel of course.

and to my great surprise i find that he, the author Patrick Rothfuss, claims to have already written the whole trilogy already .YAY i am thinking

only to find that the sequel, which has already been supposedly written mind you,..
according to amazon.com "This title will be released on April 7, 2009"


WTF!!11

the 1st one released in early 2007 for hells sake.


so now i wait ..

[Wiseguy42]

Well if it takes that long atleast you can count on the quality.

[Windsetter]

As per Patrick Rothfuss himself, he could potentially release the entire trilogy right now, but feels it will disappoint his reader, as the first went through many revisions. (this example of revisions come from his blog at patrickrothfuss.com)

For example. If you were to go back in time and read The Name of the Wind one major revision ago, you'd discover that there wasn't any trip to Trebon, no draccus at all.

If you were to go back two major revisions, you would lose Auri and Devi. Their characters didn't exist in that version of the book.

Three revisions? You wouldn't have the scene where Kvothe and Elodin go to the asylum. Or the scene where Kvothe saves Fela from the fire in the Fishery. Or the scene where Bast talks to Chronicler at the very end of the book. I hadn't written any of those them yet.

Think about that version of the book. Would you want to read that instead? I wouldn't.

Were those early drafts finished? In some ways, yes. They had a beginning, a middle, and an ending. They probably could have been published, and people would have liked them fairly well, but they would not have been the best book possible, and that's what I want to write for you.

Hell, just thinking about the book without Auri nearly breaks my heart.

So when I say that book two needs revisions, you have to trust me. What I have right now is good, but it's not the best book possible. I want to give you a great book. A book that is as perfect as I can possibly make it. I want you to read it and laugh, and cry, and be horrified.

But that takes time....

It is about quality. Having read The Name of the Wind several times now, I would rather wait and have an equivalent or better book.

The author himself is very interesting. He went as a gay Dumbledore for Halloween last year, he is a definite Neil Gaiman fanboy, thinks it is sadistic if someone eats a carrot in front of a snowman, etc.

Go read his blog and you can be entertained for hours.

I for one am willing to wait till next April for the second book.

[PantsOfDoom]

Finished NoTW last night for the first of what will be many times, I'm sure. Adored the characters (especially Auri and Wilem), respected the writing style and loved the narrative structure - gave so much insight into what makes the admittedly imperfect Kvothe into who he is.

(I've always had a...thing...for fictional autobiographies. Not by conscious choice, it's just that a lot of books which I buy based on the awesomeness of the blurb turn out that way. This is in the higher echelon though.)

Only two qualms I had with it is:

1) Most of the University section is a little TOO akin to Harry Potter. I've read a few reviews which have noticed the similarities (both protagonists lost their parents at a young age and at the hands of a powerful magical being, both have a main friendship group consisting of two members; one providing the humour whilst the other is more profound, both attract the enmity of a rich fellow student, both invoke the hatred of a despised tutor and so on...) between the two and even though it is approached in a more mature way due to the age difference, I found the similarities a little jarring at times.

2) From what I remember (correct me if I'm wrong) but there really wasn't much made of a potential relationship between Ambrose and Denna. I was reading it waiting for Ambrose to make his move and it never seemed to come. In general, Ambrose seemed underutilised to me - which will hopefully be remedied in the second book. And, of course, if Denna's wealthy patron turns out to BE Ambrose well...let the games begin!

All in all though, April 7, 2009 is shaping up to be a GOOOOD day.

This post has been edited by PantsOfDoom: 18 July 2008 - 10:17 AM