Weary of waiting for epic fantasy series to be concluded, some fans – and even, it appears, one editor – are turning against their favourite authors
In Misery, Stephen King created Annie Wilkes, a fanatical reader who becomes so upset at the ending that befalls her favourite character Misery Chastain, that she captures the author, Paul Sheldon – then cuts off various parts of his body while forcing him to write the story she wants.
Looking at the building rage over Patrick Rothfuss’s failure to deliver the third book in his Kingkiller Chronicle series, The Doors of Stone, it’s all beginning to feel a bit Wilkes-ish. As BookRiot recounts, fans are so upset at being kept waiting for the novel since the second instalment was published in 2011, some are now discouraging people from reading the series at all, vowing to pirate the book when it finally comes out to avoid giving Rothfuss any money, and writing messages such as “fantasy authors are demons who are put on this earth to crush your soul and suck the life out of you while you wait endless years for the next instalment”.
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