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Ccs posted:Maybe its like Springfield and Shelbyville, and they secretly enjoy their rivalry. next book snippet: I had to get over to Triblee, which is what we called Tarbean in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the Edma Ruh style at the time time and….
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Atlas Hugged posted:Already a better book. With an attitude like that you're definitely of the advance reader list!
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I've neglected my duties... Write the book, Rothfuss!
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The book will come out before Winds of Winter, Star Citizen, and the Tesla Bot.
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Hughmoris posted:I've neglected my duties... Putting on my serious hat for a moment . .. Does this thread really need to stay open? "Pat the write, Rothbook!" is fine and all but is that all this thread is staying open for these days?
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Rothfuss does something dumb that we like to make fun of a couple times a year.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Putting on my serious hat for a moment . .. Tree Dude posted:Rothfuss does something dumb that we like to make fun of a couple times a year. I think the thread gets meaningful discussion going from time to time. I truly hope he publishes the third book sooner than later. I enjoyed the first one, parts of the second one, and we'll see where the third one lands.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A few different people ahve suggested I close this thread, under the theory that it's just toxic rothfuss-slamming and there's little point in keeping it going. Hieronymous Alloy posted:Putting on my serious hat for a moment . .. Open threads aren't like leaving a lightbulb on or something, they can stay open even if they're not getting any posts! It's not like it's a drain on resources or choking out other discussion or something, and it'd be silly if something interesting were to happen in Mr. Rothfuss's life and/or career and we had to wait for someone to reopen the thread to discuss it. Anyways, see you in 6 months!
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vote for keeping it, mocking rothfuss is good for the community
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Putting on my serious hat for a moment . .. Who knows, someone may actually dissect it again in an entertaining manner. I've been contemplating it. Also, sometimes news happens and we have a laugh. Keep it open.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Putting on my serious hat for a moment . .. Yes because I need up to date info on the latest Cheerios trends.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Does this thread really need to stay open? "Pat the write, Rothbook!" is fine and all but is that all this thread is staying open for these days? Would you want us, in any circumstances, to leak into general chat? Think of this thread as quarantine
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You've got the mummified remains of BotL marking the first page with the weirdest version of "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" so nobody has to worry about someone walking in unprepared for the horrors within.
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keep the thread but imo don't bump it unless there's content
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If the Barkley 2 thread in Games can stay open this one can
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What is that little scamp up to? Shouldn’t he have sexually harassed con attendees, raised money for a dubious charity, and/or issued some obvious lies about his literary output by now?
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mp5 posted:If the Barkley 2 thread in Games can stay open this one can the promise has been made
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Chicken Butt posted:What is that little scamp up to? Shouldn’t he have sexually harassed con attendees, raised money for a dubious charity, and/or issued some obvious lies about his literary output by now? It is curious what he plans to do as 2023 is probably going to see a full return to everything, will he show up to cons and public events as "famous author Patrick Rothfuss" or just use any excuse to avoid engaging with a potentially hostile audience. Also, his website takes forever to load. Last blog post was June 2022 about that kickstarter to reprint some old books. Yeah, just got a connection time out for his website's "tour" page.
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pentyne posted:It is curious what he plans to do as 2023 is probably going to see a full return to everything, will he show up to cons and public events as "famous author Patrick Rothfuss" or just use any excuse to avoid engaging with a potentially hostile audience. His entire website is down and he hasn't tweeted anything about the books in months, and the latest news about anything else is that all of the Lionsgate and Showtime stuff fell through because after GoT no one wanted to chance a series that hasn't finished yet.
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This thread needs to be here so we can remind ourselves and inform others how hes taken advantage of charity then cried like a lifetime bitch about it so he wouldn't get in trouble.
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He's a very big cautionary tale. Valuable warning for those who want to start an epic fantasy series without many previous books of practice, or at least a work ethic.
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Ccs posted:He's a very big cautionary tale. Valuable warning for those who want to start an epic fantasy series without many previous books of practice, or at least a work ethic. This was always the thing about fantasy series. The genre seems so married to the idea of serial releases in an effort to match the scope of LOTR. These people are also the first to remind everyone that LOTR was written as one book, so the lesson is never learned. Is there any series where the original author said that it's all done and complete and no more will be released, and then nobody ever wrote another book in said universe?
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Patware posted:keep the thread but imo don't bump it unless there's content Yeah, I think this is where I'm landing. It seems like there's reason to keep it open but let's not just bump the thread with emptyquotes or one-liners if that's ok.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, I think this is where I'm landing. I just want him to write the book.  Ok, no more monthly bumps of despair.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, I think this is where I'm landing. I agree with this. By the way, I had a laugh that apparently the issue with making the movies of the books themselves is that they complained they had too much content to do 1 book per movie, which uhh, then just split it up, ding-dongs. Yeesh. Though you can probably just skip the Endless Pub Crawls.
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1 book per movie would never work, you'd end up with something like LOTR. Better to do multiple movies per book, so you end up with something like The Hobbit. (Yes I'm aware The Hobbit had numerous other issues)
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Pennsylvanian posted:Is there any series where the original author said that it's all done and complete and no more will be released, and then nobody ever wrote another book in said universe? I think there are probably plenty but we don't hear about them because they were mostly forgotten because a new one isn't coming out every few years to remind us it exists.
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Evil Fluffy posted:1 book per movie would never work, you'd end up with something like LOTR. Better to do multiple movies per book, so you end up with something like The Hobbit. I think it's perfectly viable to do it the Hobbit way as long as you have plenty of material to cover. The problem with doing it with the Kingkiller Chronicles is how little good material you have, while doing 1 book per movie has trouble because each book is more a collection of short stories than a coherent narrative.
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I imagine the TV show would just be like The Magician's TV show but canceled in one season because what's the point of having a high fantasy setting when all the screen time is normal college drama.
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The ones that spring to mind for me aren't necessarily "fantasy" fantasy, but they're adjacent. Neal Stephenson handwrote The Baroque Cycle in one shot and published it from 2003-04 in three volumes which were later split into smaller novels. William Gibson usually writes in discreet trilogies but has the odd short story set in the same world as a trilogy.
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If they adapt Name of the Wind to movie or tv there needs to be a little counter in the cornet of the screen at all times showing how many talents kvothe currently has like a video game hud And another counter for his tuition
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Lottery of Babylon posted:If they adapt Name of the Wind to movie or tv there needs to be a little counter in the cornet of the screen at all times showing how many talents kvothe currently has like a video game hud Sexing Master badge twirls onto the screen with bling sound effect
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Lottery of Babylon posted:If they adapt Name of the Wind to movie or tv there needs to be a little counter in the cornet of the screen at all times showing how many talents kvothe currently has like a video game hud This is basically 2 Broke Girls
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Mzuri posted:Had anyone done a let's read of KKC here? Not really a Let's Read but there's several instances of BotL casually shanking specific scenes and chapters in this very thread. We missed the tenth anniversary to do one, but who needs an occasion for self harm?
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MartingaleJack posted:I imagine the TV show would just be like The Magician's TV show but canceled in one season because what's the point of having a high fantasy setting when all the screen time is normal college drama. At best, it'd be like the Sword of Truth TV show but even worse characters and a protagonist you actively end up rooting against regularly.
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