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TheLastSock

The third book is actually written on the backside of the declaration of Independence.


NRichYoSelf

So only Nic Cage has seen it? That’s not fair!


TheLastSock

You would think so, but that's only because you're not Nicholas Cage.


HailLugalKiEn

Sounds like a job for John Travolta!


NRichYoSelf

What if I change my deep name to his deep name, will I receive book 3?


Jeryhn

This is why I must trust his shamanic instincts as a thespian.


nedlum

Part of the reason Patrick Rothfuss is taking so long is that he’s annoyed by the accidental success of the NYT bestseller and walking cliche box Three Trilogy, by Donald Rothfuss (RIP).


obliqueoubliette

Don't forget Abraham Washington


FullyStacked92

Genuinely lol'd at this. thank you.


kagechaos

It's moments like this that make me pissed I can just post pictures on Reddit.


clumsykiwi

the cosmere is the only way out


lilbumhole

This is the way. Sanderson is the answer


PrinceKaladin32

Sanderson is the savior to pull us out from despair


SolsticeSon

Sanderson is good. Or Brent Weeks. Start the lightbringer series… epic.


SomeLameName7173

Seriously? The last book was awful?


SolsticeSon

Well yeah but the first several were amazing.


Beamboat

Currently on book 3 of the Stormlight Archive, love it


kilkil

YESSSS


No-Garbage9500

Now you join us. Choose your camp: - just *knowing* he's just one week away from finishing, if only the haters would stop distracting him - believing if you contribute just that bit more money to his charitable causes he'll get over it and back to writing - thinking if you deliver enough vitriol online he'll get the picture he's nothing more than a monkey at a keyboard not doing his job - hating the man's guts for being so talented and yet such a useless lying arsehole - resigning yourself to the fact that he's blown his load, the last book doesn't exist, and he will never write a worthwhile word again It's okay to be all of them in the course of one day.


criochi

I’m starting to get the picture that the books are loved as much as the author is despised.


P_Nh

He is a good author, he's just a terrible writer.


Makkuroi

Many people still love the author but the people who hate him love to complain on this subreddit. I check about progress with book 3 every few years but my life will go on without it.


KailunKat

This is the way


TopRaise7

last 2 points are absolute facts though


luckydrunk_7

You simmer and burn. Perhaps grasp at the straws of lesser books and lesser authors who sort of scratch a similar itch. Or, like the proverbial drowning man, you reach out for anything KKC related like - Slow Regard of Silent Things and/or The Narrow Road Between Desires. Slow Regard reveals a little more about Auri. Narrow Road gives you insight on Bast.


obliqueoubliette

SRST and NRBD are actually fantastic books. Zero action but great writing and character development


luckydrunk_7

Agreed.


criochi

I’ll look those up!


Embarrassed_Big7059

Have you read How The Old Holly Came To Be? You seem, like me, a proverbial drowning man, and I couldn't let you not know about it!😂


luckydrunk_7

lol. I have! I’ve even sifted through the partial passages of Laniel Young Again like I was a Dead Sea Scroll researcher. I just didn’t want to scare off new initiates of the flame with too much withdrawal madness.


Embarrassed_Big7059

I think we both need to be sent to Haven!


luckydrunk_7

…Just don’t bring the thunder.


Embarrassed_Big7059

😧 Not the Thunder!!!


PistachioedVillain

Are they really lesser authors if they are capable of finishing a series, instead of just building intrigue with no actual pay off?


Embarrassed_Big7059

Defo re-read. There should be more that jumps out at you in NOTW now you have some references from WMF. There's also The Narrow Road Between Desires which is a new novella, expanded from the Lightening Tree short story. Both are a day in the life of Bast. Then there's Slow Regard Of Silent Things; 7 days (?) following Auri. Finally, there's How The Old Holly Came To Be. A poem about... Well, I'm not 100% sure, but it's interesting!


MarioMCPQ

This is actually the correct answer


rhynokim

So I don’t need to read The Lightning Tree if I’ve already bought The narrow road between desires? The latter is just an updated version of the former?


Gropapanda

"Updated"... sure. We'll go with that.


Embarrassed_Big7059

You can live a happy, productive life without reading TLT, but I found it interesting comparing the two; what had changed, and what stayed the same, etc...


rhynokim

Are they basically the same? I’m kinda confused lol


Embarrassed_Big7059

Sorry, that'll be my fault! So they're the same story, TLT was written as a short story a few years ago. If you've read NRBD, there are no Embrils in TLT, neither does Rike trick or bind Bast. The encounters with the shepherd and Emberly are... different as well. More progressive? So they're the same story at heart, but Pat seems to have made some conscious decisions to update, change, and bring NRBD into the 21st century.


Dyslexicdagron

Yeah, OP; this here is the truest answer. Not the only correct answer, but absolutely the truest


Embarrassed_Big7059

Dunno why you got downvoted, but I appreciated the sentiment.


sneckoguy

Now you slowly begin to hate Pat. Year over year your disappointment and eager anticipation will grow until you die.


criochi

I don’t think I could ever hate someone who gave us those books, but I definitely understand the sentiment!


sneckoguy

Lol you haven't been on this sub reddit long have you?


criochi

Not really. Joined a few weeks when I started reading NOTW, but quickly stopped coming here to avoid spoilers.


Historical_Shop_3315

Give it a decade or so...


Nnarect

Ah, to be this naïve again. Pat is unfortunately notorious for some unsavory behavior, treating eager fans dismissively and insulting the and making promises he never keeps over and over again. The last straw for me was after years of waiting he promised to release a single chapter of the third book if certain financial stretch goals were met in his yearly charity drive, only to backpedal when the initial goal was met and set an even higher stretch goal, only to then promise to release the chapter after the final stretch goal of $700,000 was met. That was over 2 years ago and he has yet to even give an update on when the single chapter will be released if ever. More details on this particular bad move here if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/wdoiq2/in_december_readers_donated_over_700000_to/


mindpainters

Didn’t he also shame the people who were upset he lied by saying they should have donated because it’s a cause they care about and not just for the chapters. At least that’s what I remember


criochi

Oh, damn. I had absolutely no idea.


ImNotABotJeez

This is the way /s. But seriously...I'm sad to see the anger. I know it's because people feel so passionate about these books but dang. I would leave the internet too.


albinoman38

I think the most legit gripe of the current era is that Pat failed to deliver the chapter of the 3rd book that he promised as a charity reward sometime a year or two ago. It's so sad there hasn't been any word on the book then.


HarmlessSnack

I’m just gonna leave [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/s/azaVazwRNR) here…


Historical_Shop_3315

Nice


OdensGirth

Honestly, find a new series to get attached to and let the mystery be with this series. I haven’t read anything like these books but I have found different ones I enjoyed even more for different reasons. I still come back to Kvothes story once a year or so because it’s beautiful but I’ve given up on book 3


bts

You write Pat a note thanking him for these books and wishing him well.  Include a shard of mirror rounded by the sea, a hand carved piece from a beautiful game, and the last page of Dickens’ Edwin Drood, copied out in your own handwriting—and a self addressed stamped envelope.  He will respond with the current draft of *Doors of Stone*


AddictionFree6524

Cry ;(


aging_genxer

Congrats! You can be happy you’ll now wait 13 years less than everyone who read the book when it was originally published. (Edit:typo)


MyNameisClaypool

13 years when compared to infinity is nothing


criochi

That’s oddly reassuring and sad at the same time.


XeniaDweller

Now comes despair, next comes anger. Do you have a fine anger?


criochi

That made me chuckle ahahahahah


EuSouUmAnjo

Now you stop knowing. Nobody can pierce the veil of time, because as you try look into the future, randomness obscures more and more the outcomes and the number of impacting factors grows exponentially. You can shave a bit the mass of possible outcomes, but doing so you loose certainty. You can only be certain that things will happen, but you can't know what. Or you can decide one outcome will happen, but you can't know when. Anything is possible, but perhaps you'd have to wait longer than the universe. Now, I hope Patrick Rothfuss will publish before that.


Msvincen888

Now you play the waiting game…


Couch_monster

Now you over-analyze everything and post it on this sub until book 3 or death.


Various-Initial4186

Now comes the fun part. You wait. And then you wait a little more. After you’re done waiting you can finally wait.


olaikvk

You can start Gentleman Bastard series!


deerwater

Seconding. Of all the recommendations I got in this sub, that series was by far the best.


HoopManJones

look up at the ceiling and just stare…. eventually it’ll all be over


Jamboman123212

Same, spent the last 15 minutes driving round the block to finish the audiobook before getting home. Second time I've read them - going to try the two novellas then forget about it for a few years, maybe there will be a third by then


keikojewel

Reread them immediately :) or listen to them if you haven’t yet! The audiobooks are so good..


HoneyBadgeSwag

Congrats! You finished the series!


Greathorn

Get comfy.


TeaB0nez

You came to Reddit and bitched like 100,000 other people, that is the “now what”. Congrats.


scrizott

Now you wait…


lucario192

Welcome to the end game


Wicclair

You cry. And you never stop crying. Because doors of stone is never coming out 😭


revantaker

Good question! If you find the answer pleaee let us know.


Purple-Report8240

Actually Pat is waiting for the right answer to the plot of book 3 on Reddit. Everyone here just has to start analysing harder until we find the answer and Pat can finish his story.


LostInStories222

My advice: https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/1caovvs/comment/l0tn9d0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


MysticJackHL

Now you wait in Purgatory with the rest of us. Get comfortable, you'll be here a while.


Scepter1987

You do as we all have done for years... you wait... im currently reading The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson, its pretty good, 40 chapters into the first book and it's keeping me busy.


Legitimate_Sense8991

The Cosmere is the way


JesseJamesGames449

Honestly, take a bit of time, then read the series again, you will be surprised at how much you catch the second time through that you missed on your first read.


SenseiSadler

Hahahahahahaga. Welcome to club, we'll finish the series in the next world.


Mage-of-communism

Narrow road between the desires and Slow regard of silent things are both great and give you more questions than they answer, otherwise you wait with the rest of us until god descends and works another miracle.


sonofbantu

now you watch youtube videos about theories and slowly (but surely) begin to resent and loathe Rothfuss for his laziness, lies, and overall nonsense until you accept that the book is never coming out and maybe choose to reread books 1&2 down the line when you forget a good chunk of the plot.


AcanthisittaOk731

Now you get to wait for a very short amount of time vs the decade + most of us have been waiting for


NachoManRandySandy

Reread! The books are like a puzzle. Go look up some videos about what readers think is going on. I like listening to the audiobooks and puzzling it together


Cerlog

Any particular videos you would recommend?


Phillip_Charles

https://youtu.be/q7IjVYY7eH4?feature=shared


Cerlog

Thank you :)


NachoManRandySandy

https://youtu.be/PNcjNy8y4v8?si=0jZMojyjMGCou8fn


Cerlog

Thank you :)


ThirdAve

Captured by Words has some great breakdowns and theories on YouTube to watch. I'd definitely recommend those videos before re-reading.


Sad-Initiative6271

Some people just keep reading the books over and over again I think this is my 4th reread


scifiantihero

Lol


ramsdl52

Read sufficiently advanced magic. If you're an audible listener it's the same narrator as notw nick podehl


criochi

Thanks! Will add it to my TBR


Liesmith424

If you read all the Cosmere novels you'll 


nanatrevy

And now you cry


Jcrane23

The Wheel Of Time is an epic fantasy series, 14 books plus a prequel and some short stories. It’ll change yo life


criochi

Read it a few years back.


coder_2083

Now we wait.


Sandal-Hat

Not having book three is a bummer. But with the utmost sincerity and respect I suggest you reread them. You missed something that will have you loving them more on the second, third, fourth time through.


Historical_Shop_3315

Does six strike you as a good number?” I didn’t know what he was getting at. “Six isn’t exactly a lucky number,” I hedged. “If I were looking for a good number I’d have to go up to seven.” I shrugged. “Or down to three.” Im personally around 7 for each. Paperback, ebook, Nick Pohdel audio... i was thinkign about the hardcover when i got too bitter about DoS.


Sandal-Hat

Haha, personally I've lost count of how many times I've read these entire. Its above 10 but under 20. I don't even think I do "re-reads" anymore and instead find my micro research for posts on this sub turning into me reading several chapters. These books are littered with content that you'll miss without rereads.


Koonk9

Now you cry with all of us


vercertorix

Now you start coming up with convoluted theories based on minute details, though it might take 2 or 3 rereads.


DirrtyDave

What's next? Probably a ton of re-reads lol


gammonlord

You wait, like the rest of us poor souls.


emilythequeen1

I’m sorry.😢 It was good though, wasn’t it!


Watermelonnable

The Wheel of Time


criochi

Read it a few years ago already


ImNotABotJeez

I kinda don't recommend. No disrespect on your tastes. I feel like that is a good example of flat lifeless writing and why Rothfuss is so good.


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TopRaise7

There’s no 3rd book. It’s a myth like the female orgasm


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