That's cool. I tried to get into those and just couldn't. Read the first one, part of the second then gave up. I'm glad he's seen so much success with it though. Getting over the hump with a first novel is incredibly hard. Happy for him.
I don't really care if the adaptations suck. Original work will always be there to fall back on.
Plus when GOT was awesome, it was really really awesome. The crappy last few seasons dont mean that the amazing seasons didn't happen. I love the books and I also loved the HBO show looking at the whole total. Some of it sucked but much of it was simply amazing.
His publisher also came out a few months ago saying she hasn't seen one page yet from book 3, and said she didn't believe he had written anything. I don't think he ever responded. And yes, his pet charity seems to take all of his time, which appears to be an excuse from having to fight through writers block and finish the book (or start writing the damn thing?)
It has been so long since I read any of them, I don't really care if they every get finished to be honest. And both are fat, unhealthy people that will likely die (GRRM is 72, so he'll probably be gone within the next few years, so no way that gets finished). Rothfuss is 48 and has one book to write, so it may get finished within the next 25 years. I'll have to decided if I want to re-read the first two if the third is ever released. Supposedly he wrote the whole story when he was young in a rough form. Book two was said to be written when book 1 was released, yet it took forever for it to come out. GRRM had a similar thing with the last two book (written at the same time and took a decade to edit book 2, which is insane).
True, but it does put a grey cloud over the 73 hours of your life you spent watching a show that completely failed at the end.
FWIW the Kingkiller Chronicle books hold up on re-reading.His publisher also came out a few months ago saying she hasn't seen one page yet from book 3, and said she didn't believe he had written anything. I don't think he ever responded. And yes, his pet charity seems to take all of his time, which appears to be an excuse from having to fight through writers block and finish the book (or start writing the damn thing?)
My brother gave me the first GOT books back around 2007, bringing me into a world of great books that never finish. I gifted him the first two Kingkiller Chronicles as payback.
I didn't read the last GOT book, and don't plan to read anymore.
I like the writing philosophy of Sanderson much more, who plots out the whole series in an outline before he starts writing. He fills in gaps, but knows the larger story, so there are fewer plot holes to fill. GRRM figures it out while he goes (with a general idea of how it goes, but not fully plotted out). There are so many side pieces that it is daunting to try and put it all back together.
I have to think if I am an author (can't blame GRRM, he is 72 and a multimillionaire thanks to HBO) like pre-tv GRRM or Rothfuss, that I'd dedicate enough time to get books written in a reasonable period of time. Fantasy is ok, but is down the list of my regular reading preference, but some of this more recent authors have made decent books, but I don't have the memory or time to wait 10 years between books as I'd have to go back and re-read the original stories to remember what the hell was going on after 10 years.
I heard the audio books are good so I may do that if book 3 ever gets removed from the door of stone it is hiding behind. Not holding my breath (or binding the air in my lungs to simulate calling the wind. Heard thst makes Abenthy all sorts of angry).
It looks like they've punched it up, having things actually happen instead of just talking. I love the series, but I thought it was kind of unfilmable, but maybe they've come up with a way to do it? Anyway, they've perfectly cast Hari Seldon.
I wouldn't go that far. Sanderson is a talented writer, and gets books published like a madman while still teaching at an insane rate, but the majority of his writing is a bit predictable (at least for me). I liked what he did to finish WOT, but I felt like RJ's writing was going downhill after book 4, and becoming a bit formalistic and somewhat unreadable. Also didn't love the ending, but not pinning that on Sanderson. It would be hard as hell to take someone else's vision and style to an extent and put it on paper.
Would you rather Rothfuss never finish it, or finish it in a lackluster fashion?
Honestly, I read the last one so long ago I don't really care, although generally I'd rather see finality for something I start than never see it completed.
