20 years is a long time to push out 6 novels.
It's his creation to do with as he pleases, but what started out as one of the best series in the genre in a long, long time, is now...Yesterday's news? No longer interesting? A lost cause? The last few books have been wandering and spinning in place; the final acts will be unveiled - even if through a distorting lense - in the show long before the books are published, and frankly, every option that makes sense has long been tried out and checked against Chekov's Guns and foreshadowing by an army of fans. Any possible ending will either be predicted and we'll be blasé, or it'll be some weird twist that doesn't fit narratively or hasn't been properly set up. After A Storm of Swords there was anticipation - what will happen? How will he tie it all together? There were still plenty of possible outcomes, different directions the story might go. Now? Eh.
I don't think anyone would have as much animosity towards him if he were a younger, fitter man. But he doesn't seem to want to finish the books based on the sheer truckload of other work he does instead and he's going to die before finishing the story his way.
People are more patient with Patrick Rothfuss despite similar amounts of time passing for book 3 of Kingkiller Chronicle, that is true.
He is younger and a little fitter. He's also a new dad and besides which, dude has D&D to play on camera.
I don't care about his baby! Everybody else doesn't get 6 years to play D&D when they have a baby!
FTFY
It would be neat if they did though.
The First Law was great but what was even better was was "Best Served Cold" and the best by FAR was "The Heroes". It's a must read.
Ftfy
It was only 4 years between the 1st two... amateur.
To be fair, I mean, I own more than half, and they aren't exactly all of the same quality.
True, the later books he started phoning it in a little, but the first 15-20 were pretty solid.
This is a reference to a conversion that Gas and I always end up having in which he talks about "when I was a kid," and I constantly have to point out that we were kids at the same time.
No, I don't remember Go-Bots. They were after my time.
You'll have to teach me to play mumbly-peg sometime then.
OK!You'll have to teach me to play mumbly-peg sometime then.
Loser pays the winner's hospital bill!
No, he just pulls the knife out of the ground with his teeth.
You'll have to teach me to play mumbly-peg sometime then.
The two of you can pitch pennies or something to decide who goes first.
Back at it again with the white
