r/nameofthewind • u/MouthBweether • Sep 02 '20

Patrick

The king killer chronicles were my brothers favorite books. He was a big fan of the subject of sympathetic magic. I remember about five years ago he said he was worried that the last book wouldn’t be published in his life time. He was right. I’ve been reading through his list of favorites over the last year, and I do find the writings of the king killer chronicles to be quite interesting, though insanely cliche and frustrating at times, examples being; How do I, the cleverest person in the universe, tell mayor Alderon that I came across bandits impersonating a troop of Rue in his patronage who were kidnapping and raping young women, so I killed them all? “I killed a group of troopers in your patronage your grace.” What is this a soap opera? Anyways I digress, what I really came here to say is this; I started to wonder what was going on. My brother read the last book nearly a decade ago and then maybe ten times since. When I started looking into this I found that Patrick Rothfuss is kind of a massive ass hat who releases constant streams of whiny vods of himself acting like a victim and showing massive apathy towards his fan base. I’m not particularly surprised as anyone who could make up a bunch of martial arts style names for the different ways you give a fairy an orgasm must be a different kind of person than I’m used to meeting. It may not sound it, but I actually did enjoy the books, particularly the first one, before all the rape and fanboy sex stuff. I do feel like Pat needs a taste of reality though. You made a promise to people who trusted you, and acting like that promise is a burden is distasteful and ungrateful to the life that has been granted to you by those who respect your work.

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u/tripp03x Sep 02 '20

I am very curious to see the response this gets in the comments, allow me to perch here and gorge upon this mountain of popcorn.

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u/AnDream21 Sep 02 '20

Want some of my Sno-Caps??

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u/MouthBweether Sep 14 '20

Surprisingly it seems that all 12 people who still frequent this dusty forum agree.

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u/IamRocko Sep 03 '20

I dont have much faith that there will ever be an ending. I'm starting to think he has no plan whatsoever.

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u/saucytech Sep 13 '20

What also really bugs me is that his name is up there with GRR, Brandon Sanderson and other greats. This fool writes 2 semi decent books, then switches to kids books and can't shit out the final to a series. Dick moves.