Vintertroll Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 More Lynch already? Yay! Why can't all authors be as productive as that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Bull Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Sounds excellent to me. I'm ready for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantasy Book Critic Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Well I hope it makes it out on time. Should be another entertaining read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcf Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 It sounds promising - hopefully Lynch will 'evolve' a bit with this one as his caper 'schtick' will quickly grow tiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerol Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Does anyone know if the UK and US release dates are the same? Whatever, I'm buying the the day it comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat5150 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 The UK edition -- so far at least -- has always been released about a month prior to the US version. And no, no word as to whether or not the entire manuscript has been turned in yet... Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 It sounds promising - hopefully Lynch will 'evolve' a bit with this one as his caper 'schtick' will quickly grow tiring. I'm a bit wary that it seems to have the same "blackmail Locke by threatening his life" plot that was in RSURS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneeye Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm looking forward to ROT, it's not even listed on amazon.de yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Sun Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm looking forward to ROT, it's not even listed on amazon.de yet though. Yes, that' unusual, and kind of funny, because they have already listed another later book of the series that is expected for 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Doran Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 It sounds promising - hopefully Lynch will 'evolve' a bit with this one as his caper 'schtick' will quickly grow tiring. While I agree in principle, the schtik parts of the last book were fine, while the "Locke Lamora, feminist Errol Flynn" featuring happy caring hearts-of-gold pirates were pretty dire. Until he proves otherwise, we might consider the option that capers is what Lynch does well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestrit Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 That would be great if SL can get the book out by this autumn. And double awesome if ADwD is out near the same time That said, I'm not sure how much I trust amazon's dates for things. They've been set to release ADwD several times over the past couple of years... BTW, thanks for spoiler-tagging the blurb. Can some of you now spoiler tag your responses to the blurb? You've pretty much given away a key spoiler in the blurb. Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymeria87 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Excellent news! RoT definitely ranges on top of my to be read in 2008 list:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 That said, I'm not sure how much I trust amazon's dates for things. They've been set to release ADwD several times over the past couple of years... Not amazon.com. They've not listed the book before. And The Lynch as well as the Martin are listed on the publisher's own site and in the promotional articles. But as it is unsure if Lynch has finished the book at this point, it could still go wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 The publisher has pushed back the date to October 28. Hopefully this will be final then, but it shows once more that the same could happen to ADWD ( Still scheduled for September 30). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Queen Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I'm a bit wary that it seems to have the same "blackmail Locke by threatening his life" plot that was in RSURS. And in LoLL. Will all Gentleman Bastard books follow the same formula? I thought Scott Lynch was a better writer. RSURS disappointed me and it sounds like Republic of Thieves will disappoint me too. At least my expectations are a lot lower now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Doesn't sound very good to me. I agree about the "antagonist forcing Locke to do things" problem. It seems Locke is only interested in his capers, and in keeping out the way. And despite the fact that the first two books consistently show him doing stuff just because it's the right thing to do, it still hasn't got to the stage where he can choose to do morally sound stuff without being previously compelled to perform some ancillary task. SPOILER: mild spoilerThat was certainly one thing i didn't like about Republic of Thieves. It was quite clear the poison was going to be a driving force of the next book, as well as this. In fact if it had been fake (which i never really bought), it would have ben much better. And i'd want that revealed at the very end of RoT as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Preordered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthem Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Eagerly looking forward to it... wish GRRM will take a page out of Lynch's book and churn out as regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigei Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Can't even finish RSURS so I'll have to pass on this one for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 Well, Bantam has now completely removed Republic of Thieves from this year's publishing schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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