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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Riding off into the sunset isn't the same thing at all. The western has a satisfying conclusion, there just happens to he enough loose ends for more stories. That, as you say, IS a classic storytelling device. But that's not what we're talking about here. Building subplots and then simply stopping before anything gets resolved is not a story-telling device. It's a series-selling device. Good series writers give readers some sort of satisfying resolution in each installment (regardless if the main story might need eight installments to complete). Bad ones put the pen down and leave all the threads dangling. The Name of the Wind was nothing more than a novel-length introduction. Parts were entertaining, but it did not comprise a stand alone "story."
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Here is a quote from Rothfuss himself about the entire Kingkiller Chronicles being just prologue:
"It’s way worse than that. I am an author who has tricked you into reading a trilogy that is a million-word prologue.”
https://www.tor.com/2018/03/07/patri...-stone-book-3/