Comments on: Work In Progress Another Rain Wilds Book

By: Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:19:32 +0000

Sarah, let me know how this turns out for you, okay?

Robin

By: Sarahnicklepickle

Sarahnicklepickle — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:12:43 +0000

Robin,

I will contact the place that it was purchased from, hopefully they will be willing to work. If not, I can shelf the hardback and buy a paperback for reading when it comes out here.

The book is a hardback, I decided I wanted all of your books in hardback because, as you stated, sometimes paperbacks don’t last very long.

I understand that hardbacks do sometimes fall apart, it just stinks it was a signed edition!

Thank you for your advice, and I can’t wait to read what comes out next!

Sarah

By: Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:49:29 +0000

Hi Sarahnicklepickle (great screen name!)

If the book that is falling apart is a hardback, well, that should certainly not be happening this soon! And I think you’d be justified in asking for a replacement.

Paperback? Well, they certainly don’t last for me like they used to! I have paperbacks from the 60′s that look better than some of my recently purchased ones in terms of pages sliding out.

Let me know!

Robin

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:39:02 +0000

I also truly appreciate all the relationships displayed within the books. As a gay man it was amazing to read and relate to the experiences of the characters in the series on a much more personal level.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:36:38 +0000

I am SO thrilled to hear that! I love the Rain Wilds and the chronicles about them were amazing! I can’t wait to hear more about it!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:41:20 +0000

Robin,

I, as always, deeply appriciate your works. I love (and own!) all of your books, in paperback. For my very first Mother’s Day, I recieved a very treasured signed edition of Dragon Keeper. However, the binding fell apart before I finished reading it. What do I do? I hate to send it back, it is very significant to me.

By: chimeric

chimeric — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:51:25 +0000

I just want to thank you for picking up the story with those poor hatchlings. At the time I read the Fool’s explanation to Fitz about them, I felt somehow cheated, as if you’d quickly disposed of an inconvenient story line that didn’t work into the greater work as smoothly as you’d first hoped.
I just finished Dragon Haven and look forward with pleasure to the continuation. At the risk of adding a tiny bit of a spoiler, I’m so happy to know that you don’t abandon your babies so easily as I’d once feared.

By: Ariane

Ariane — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:10:13 +0000

I read the nine earlier books, for me it is one serie.
Great to have another one looking forward too. For me it is kind of homecoming reading the rain-chronicles. It is not finished yet. It is good that there is not a person who you can really hate in the book. It is possible to understand them all a bit not love them all. There are so many real people. They grow and learn. I can’t stop reading and then I feel so sad because it is over. I dream away in this world of dragons, lost worlds and lost people.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:51:04 +0000

Robin, I would just like to thank you deeply for the amazing world you have crafted for this world to enjoy. I have so much respect for you as a writer of modern fiction (the best, in my opinion). You are my favorite, without even a close second.

I am currently reading through your Rain Wilds Chronicles again (while eagerly anticipating the next installment), and I just wanted to thank you for your nonchalant inclusion of men who are gay as characters in your universe.

I remember when I first read through the Tawny Man trilogy, the respect I gained for you in regards to the Fool’s unconditional love for Fitz. When I picked up the Rain Wild Chronicles, I was not expecting such a prominent sub-plot with the focus being on a male couple. It is not just the inclusion of LGBT elements into the story that impresses me, it is the honest and knowledgeable manner (which is sadly atypical in the current publishing world) which you write with in regards to this aspect of your story. The standard cliches are avoided and the relationships are deep, complex, and wonderfully believable.

Thank you for creating such real characters, reflective of real life and emotions.

As long as you continue to craft worlds, characters, and stories of such depth, I will be a loyal reader and collector of your works.

Gratefully,

Leon

By: Malvika

Malvika — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:39:46 +0000

Oh Robin, I am SO happy about this. I LOVED the Rain Wilds books. They were very different from the Liveship trilogy – less epic in scope, and less complex, plot-wise. But at the same time, they had the same wonderful characterization and life that you bring to ALL your books. Thank you for many, many hours of happy reading. I remember reading the Farseer trilogy when I was a freshman in high school and crying like crazy because it was so sad!
My mom’s an author and is intensely private about her upcoming works, so I don’t expect you to answer this, but I keep finding myself wondering about Wintrow and Etta. My mom and I keep musing that their life in the Pirate Isles would be a fun setting for the “next book”!!
Also, Althea and Brashen are two of my favorite characters…. It was so funny and sad reading about them so briefly in Dragon Keeper. I guess it is strange seeing characters you know so well introduced as merely background characters. I understand that their story is probably over (and truly appreciate that you don’t want to return to it simply for the sake of pleasing your readers) but it gave me a twinge of sadness when they left after 6 pages! Oh well.
Anyway, thanks for your wonderful work and I’m a big fan!!