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[Stefan.De.Machtige]

haxxiy said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

I'm on page 500 of the first book, and i must say the story isn't moving along. In the first chapters, like you wrote, the hinted to far more than this. It's at least a trilogy, but still there isn't a main villan or some hint of a big plot at page 500.

It's okay at this point. Not great, i'm afraid. Unless the last 200 pages are better, i'm not sure if i'm reading the sequel.

Rothfuss is a "gardener" writer. Meaning he writes the chapters without an outline, hoping it to play out by itself, and books written that way often fall prey to this, not to mention they take forever to release since you'll be endlessly revising previous pages when you got a hint of where things are going later on.

Particularly I don't quite like his books... more due to Kvothe being an annoying brat and I can't stand annoying characters than because of any plot issue. Anyways people tell me Rothfuss is good fantasy and you absolutely need to read it, so I forced myself to munch away the two books. 

Yeah, i figured that much at this point. Personally i don't think it's a good thing to write without an outline.

It seems to me that Kvothe is a Sherlock-like character who lacks a proper moriarty.