Just resurrecting this thread to point out the optimism. It’s now BEEN a year since this post, and the third book isn’t out yet, nor planned for a release anytime soon.
Rats.
To be fair, the author never said it would be out it a year (or even two!). Unfortunately, Rothfuss decided to come out with a short novella set in the same universe and I imagine that rewrites, editing and translation has eaten up much of the time that would have been devoted to Book III. I really liked the first two books but the new novella is pretty awful, IMO.
Concur. Very disappointing. :(:mad:
This unfortunately suggests a pretty sharp downward trend, since I was not really impressed with Book Two.
If the OP is looking for more books, I see that we did not recommend all of the classics:
*Conan *series by Robert E. Howard. Accept no substitutes; the pastiches tend to be much more cliche than the originals.
*Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser *series by Fritz Leiber.
This is what I came in to recommend. Name of the Wind kinda feels like Earthsea fan-fic in places.
Yeah, it’s really starting to meander, isn’t it? It’s also oddly episodic, like:
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Chapter 10: In Which Qvothe Discovers Bigotry
Chapter 13: In Which Qvothe Has Sex
Chapter 15: In Which Qvothe Learns to Fight, and Has More Sex*
As to the OP, I’d recommend Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive books. There are only two out so far out of ten, but they’re excellent, and Sanderson writes at a fairly amazing pace.
I heard Sanderson speak at a bookstore a while back, and he said he considers writing his job so he spends about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at it.
That really pleases me. Jim Butcher is no literary genius, but he’s a helluva lot of fun, in my opinion.
Since the OP, the third book of the Gentleman Bastard series came out, and I found it nearly as disappointing as I found the second Kingkiller book. I hope both authors find their touch again.