The GOT Book Club

[heatmeiser]

Not sure where else to put this, but: the TV rights for Name of the Wind lapsed and it is being shopped again. Rumour has it that there is a bidding war. I'm happy as the writer on the previous attempt was turning it into a teen drama.

Credit : http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-con-name-wind-novel-807447

"Warner Bros., MGM and Lionsgate are among a group of studios locked in a heated bidding war for Patrick Rothfuss' mega-best-selling fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, book one in The Kingkiller Chronicle series.

Nearly every studio — also including Fox and Universal — is interested in the book, and the pool of suitors is expected to expand. The Name of the Wind centers on Kvothe, a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.

But unlike most literary bidding wars, The Name of the Wind will see top brass from each studio descend on Comic-Con in San Diego this week to court Rothfuss. The author will be on hand for signings, panels and "An Evening with Pat Rothfuss" event on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Like George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, another fantasy series of books that sat idle for years before generating Hollywood interest, The Name of the Wind has been around for nearly a decade. The book was published by DAW in March 2007 and spawned a second book, The Wise Man's Fear, in 2011. A third book, tentatively titled The Doors of Stone, is expected in 2016, and likely sparked the renewed interest inThe Kingkiller Chronicle. The fact that the series is seen as having enormous franchise potential has the stoked the frenzy.

Rothfuss has released three other works set in the Kingkiller Chronicles world but not part of Kvothe's journey: the short story "How Old Holly Came to Be" in 2013's Unfettered, the novella "The Lightning Tree" in 2014'sRogues (co-edited by none other than Martin) and 2014's The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

The Kingkiller Chronicle series was previously optioned by 20th Century Fox Television for Arnon Milchan, Andrew Plotkin and Brad Weston to produce for New Regency Prods. Eric Heisserer (The Thing) adapted for the small screen. But the option lapsed, allowing Rothfuss to take the fantasy series back out to film studios.

Rothfuss is being repped in the deal by Jerry Kalajian at Intellectual Property Group."

It basically is a teen drama though!

I enjoyed the books but they are definitely a little odd. Kvothe's "Mary-Jane" traits are always excused away as 'unreliable narrator' syndrome but I'm not too sure.

Will definitely be interested to see how it all ends. Though I imagine it will end with him being all bad ass and murdering the Chandrian.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Milos foreman won two best director oscars, ofotcn and Amadeus !
Chalk and cheese literally ( and metaphorically!)

Two cracking movies too.

 

[Hellerad]

It basically is a teen drama though!

I enjoyed the books but they are definitely a little odd. Kvothe's "Mary-Jane" traits are always excused away as 'unreliable narrator' syndrome but I'm not too sure.

Will definitely be interested to see how it all ends. Though I imagine it will end with him being all bad ass and murdering the Chandrian.

I can't really argue with that, although I've never really thought of it that way.

Now I'm imagining it as Saved by the Bell, if it were told as an autobiography of Zach Morris as an adult after he murdered a bunch of people.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

It basically is a teen drama though!

I enjoyed the books but they are definitely a little odd. Kvothe's "Mary-Jane" traits are always excused away as 'unreliable narrator' syndrome but I'm not too sure.

Will definitely be interested to see how it all ends. Though I imagine it will end with him being all bad ass and murdering the Chandrian.

I'm sort of annoyed with myself that I want to read the next one - didn't rate the second at all, came to dislike most of the main characters, but just fascinated at how he plans on concluding a trilogy when he seems so far behind with the story. It's like he's set himself the challenge of drinking 15 pints, he's got through 5 at a leisurely pace all evening, it's last orders and he's at the bar.

 

[Efcjake]

I'm sort of annoyed with myself that I want to read the next one - didn't rate the second at all, came to dislike most of the main characters, but just fascinated at how he plans on concluding a trilogy when he seems so far behind with the story. It's like he's set himself the challenge of drinking 15 pints, he's got through 5 at a leisurely pace all evening, it's last orders and he's at the bar.

I've recently read them as well and I agree with your observation here. It seems like there is still a LOT of story for him to get through in the last book. He goes back to the university at some point? Then they have to explain what happened to lead him to being a simple innkeeper and THEN set up the plot for the big throw down between him and the Chandrian.

Very much reminiscent of George RR Martin trying to wrap up A song of Ice and Fire in 2 more books.

 

[Kiwi]

Not sure where else to put this, but: the TV rights for Name of the Wind lapsed and it is being shopped again. Rumour has it that there is a bidding war. I'm happy as the writer on the previous attempt was turning it into a teen drama.

Credit : http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-con-name-wind-novel-807447

"Warner Bros., MGM and Lionsgate are among a group of studios locked in a heated bidding war for Patrick Rothfuss' mega-best-selling fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, book one in The Kingkiller Chronicle series.

Nearly every studio — also including Fox and Universal — is interested in the book, and the pool of suitors is expected to expand. The Name of the Wind centers on Kvothe, a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.

But unlike most literary bidding wars, The Name of the Wind will see top brass from each studio descend on Comic-Con in San Diego this week to court Rothfuss. The author will be on hand for signings, panels and "An Evening with Pat Rothfuss" event on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Like George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, another fantasy series of books that sat idle for years before generating Hollywood interest, The Name of the Wind has been around for nearly a decade. The book was published by DAW in March 2007 and spawned a second book, The Wise Man's Fear, in 2011. A third book, tentatively titled The Doors of Stone, is expected in 2016, and likely sparked the renewed interest inThe Kingkiller Chronicle. The fact that the series is seen as having enormous franchise potential has the stoked the frenzy.

Rothfuss has released three other works set in the Kingkiller Chronicles world but not part of Kvothe's journey: the short story "How Old Holly Came to Be" in 2013's Unfettered, the novella "The Lightning Tree" in 2014'sRogues (co-edited by none other than Martin) and 2014's The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

The Kingkiller Chronicle series was previously optioned by 20th Century Fox Television for Arnon Milchan, Andrew Plotkin and Brad Weston to produce for New Regency Prods. Eric Heisserer (The Thing) adapted for the small screen. But the option lapsed, allowing Rothfuss to take the fantasy series back out to film studios.

Rothfuss is being repped in the deal by Jerry Kalajian at Intellectual Property Group."

Read the series the other day and really enjoyed it. Boss

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I've recently read them as well and I agree with your observation here. It seems like there is still a LOT of story for him to get through in the last book. He goes back to the university at some point? Then they have to explain what happened to lead him to being a simple innkeeper and THEN set up the plot for the big throw down between him and the Chandrian.

Very much reminiscent of George RR Martin trying to wrap up A song of Ice and Fire in 2 more books.

I think with GRRM things have gone pear-shaped after several books so you can sort of understand that, story just got too big. Plus he's proven as a good writer, just had never written a multi-volume epic before so let it get out of hand. Rothfuss is far from proven, and has shanked it into the weeds after one book. Really liked the first one, but suspect that will be his Tony Cottee moment - hatrick on the debut then steadily downhill.

 

[COYBL25]

I've seen the film and have the book but just haven't got round to reading it
One thing I'm curious about is the title, do you know it's derivation or source ?

Apparently comes from an American children's rhyme :

" One flew East, one flew West, one flew over the Cuckoo's nest ".

I think " Cuckoo " is used as a metaphor to describe Jack Nicholsons character .

He is the " Cuckoo in the nest " at the hospital .

 

[Hellerad]

I think with GRRM things have gone pear-shaped after several books so you can sort of understand that, story just got too big. Plus he's proven as a good writer, just had never written a multi-volume epic before so let it get out of hand. Rothfuss is far from proven, and has shanked it into the weeds after one book. Really liked the first one, but suspect that will be his Tony Cottee moment - hatrick on the debut then steadily downhill.

The writing on books 1 and 2 are phenomenal. The story telling on the second book suffered from the scope of the story.

That doesn't bode well for cramming the remainder into 1 final book.

I believe that Rothfuss is a far better writer than Martin, but Martin may be the better author; if that makes sense.

 

[Professor Toffee]

Apparently comes from an American children's rhyme :

" One flew East, one flew West, one flew over the Cuckoo's nest ".

I think " Cuckoo " is used as a metaphor to describe Jack Nicholsons character .

He is the " Cuckoo in the nest " at the hospital .

Thanks mate I kind of assumed the cuckoos nest was the asylum but cuckoos don't have nests of course
So Jack flies over it by being institutionalised due his criminality and causing the patients to "rebel"
He doesn't exactly fly over it in the end though

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The writing on books 1 and 2 are phenomenal. The story telling on the second book suffered from the scope of the story.

That doesn't bode well for cramming the remainder into 1 final book.

I believe that Rothfuss is a far better writer than Martin, but Martin may be the better author; if that makes sense.

Not really mate, but we obv see the two authors differently. Martin, to me, is someone who's written good books all his life - he was highly respected as a SF writer before he ever started SoIF. He doesn't really have the craftmanship or maybe the interest (he jacked it in for about 5 years) to meticulously plan out a multi-volume epic, so has written himself into a quagmire with SoIF.

Have you read that novella Rothfuss just put out? I have not, but friends who are huge Rothfuss fans were embarrassed on his behalf over it. Meant to be tragic.

 

[Hellerad]

Not really mate, but we obv see the two authors differently. Martin, to me, is someone who's written good books all his life - he was highly respected as a SF writer before he ever started SoIF. He doesn't really have the craftmanship or maybe the interest (he jacked it in for about 5 years) to meticulously plan out a multi-volume epic, so has written himself into a quagmire with SoIF.

Have you read that novella Rothfuss just put out? I have not, but friends who are huge Rothfuss fans were embarrassed on his behalf over it. Meant to be tragic.

Yes, I read it. I liked it. It was odd, but it was a nice story. Nothing more.

Rothfuss is clever and has a flair about him; but he also has a tendency to rely on cliche, which is incredibly annoying.
Martin is intelligent and meticulous; but he's a straight forward narrator. (Which is fine and probably necessary for grey fiction on that scope. On a smaller scale, somebody like Joe Abercrombie has written grey fiction with less formulaic writing.)

Very different authors, but I enjoy the writing of Rothfuss more than Martin.

Probably a good point in the discussion to remind myself that these are both authors of fantasy.

 

[COYBL25]

Thanks mate I kind of assumed the cuckoos nest was the asylum but cuckoos don't have nests of course
So Jack flies over it by being institutionalised due his criminality and causing the patients to "rebel"
He doesn't exactly fly over it in the end though

That's it in a nutshell. The author - Ken Kesey actually wrote the book based on what he had observed whilst working night shifts as an auxiliary nurse at a psychiatric hospital as a literary student.

 

[Vaughan]

reading a lot of stage plays at the minute: Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Jez Butterworth etc

 

[blue4eva77]

Currently reading ' Congratulations, you've just met the I.C.F ' by Cass Pennant.

The Chapters are relatively short and im 7 chapters in at the moment. The book is ok, not the best read to be honest as it has your usual/predictable hooligan talk in it. After reading Scally, this is very much a down-grade in that it just seems to be pretty much the same words, same stories but a different team over and over again. Maybe it gets better but so far its the same predictable stories. I know its a hooligan book and its all about violence but you would of thought that one of the supposedly top firms of the 80's had better stories to tell really.

The highlight so far was an away game at Newcastle and after a few pages of the predictable smashing up of a geordie boozer, they were escorted to the ground. Before the kick off a geordie threw a dart into the west ham end, it was picked up, threw back and it hit someone in the head, que a load of laughter and chants of ' one hundred and eighty '. Newcastle responded to that with a petrol bomb. Thats the highlight so far but for the most part its the same predictable stories being told.

I much preferred Scally.

Finished it now. It did get a little better with a few funny incidents but it was average on a whole i would say.

5/10.

On to reading Pat Van Den Hauwe's autobiography next.