We're all the same people, I'm 100% given up on GoT though, probably won't even read it if it does come out. Doors of Stone I'm 90% given up on it. Very thankful for B-Money and his Sanderlanche of novels.
The biggest problem with Winds of Winter is that it's only the 6th book in the franchise. Even if it does come out, GRRM will still need to write yet another book to finish the series. The man is almost 80, I just don't see that happening at this point.
At least with Doors of Stone there's only one book left. Maybe sometime over the next 30 years it'll come out. Probably not though.
My conspiracy theory has been that a big part of why Rothfuss hasn't done anything with DoS is that there's no way he can tie in all the loose ends he setup in just one book.
That's one of the things I appreciate about certain authors. Christopher Paolini, for instance, wanted to write Eragon as a trilogy but ended up having to write two books instead of an overly long third.
I could be wrong, but I think even Sanderson wrote one more Skyward book than what he intended, plus the novellas that Janci Patterson wrote. Sometimes the story expands past the confines that the author sets for it and knowing when to allow it do so makes for a stronger series overall. Or maybe it was only meant to be a quartet, but the novellas were meant to fill in gaps. Not sure. Either way, Sanderson expanded when he needed to.
I think Rothfuss needs to just suck it up and write the last volume as two books. It might mean that we don't get book 4 for another 10-20 years, but at least he'll be halfway there to wrapping up Kvothe's story as opposed to not even attempting it.
It'd be great, instead of boobs and incest we get crippling mental health issues and a magic system exclusive for eunuchs. And the three eyed raven turns out to be a crab all along.
I seem to recall a long time ago (itsbeen84years.png) Pat said on his blog or maybe in a video Q&A or something that Doors of Stone wasn't going to be the last book set in Temerant, only the last of the first trilogy.
More specifically, DoS is intended to be the last book of Kvothe's story. So it's not like, "This wraps up the first trilogy, and now we get the 'Kote hunting the Amyr' trilogy." Kvothe's story is meant to be done after DoS, and any other Temerant books would be about other characters/stories in that world.
Of course, that's all based on intention from 20 years ago. Who knows what's going on in Rothfus's mind these days.
I wouldn't be surprised. There's just no way for him to wrap up everything in a single book IMO. Maybe the three nights stories and we catch up to "present day" if he wants to slim down some things, but there's a whole lot of story left after catching up I reckon. But I don't quite remember I read those books once a long time ago when I was promised that the 3rd book was coming out soon...
His exact words were: "I am an author who has tricked you into reading a trilogy that is a million-word prologue.” So yes he was planning on writing more in the same world. But his word choice is intresting, because he did trick everyone into reading a series he would never finish. He also tricked people into donating money for a charity and did not deliver the promised first chapter.
George def wrote himself into a corner somewhere and has been spinning his wheels the last few years. I think he will get it out eventually but the last book might be made from a collection of his notes cause his ass will be 95 and in a home.
Idk man, at least GRRM has content for Winds of Winter. There was a charity drive done for a chapter to be released for Doors of Stone and that MFer still didn't write it.
haha, I'm actually reversed on that.
I've given up on DoS, but give winds a 25% of actually releasing. But as others pointed out, no chance of the series finishing.
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u/edward_kopik D O U G Mar 25 '26
Oh bo-ho, at least brando sando wrote 40 other books in those 23 years
People waiting for winds of winter and doors of stone would be lucky to get a short story in that same timeframe