Fantasy recommendations

[Chrischa]

Ah, you're talking about The Name of the Wind - that's one of my favourite books, too! It's such a fresh story, so well written, I enjoyed it very much.

The second one is indeed taking a very, very long time. For the first half of last year it was listed as coming out this year, but then it changed to 2011. Either he's a very slow writer, or he's working on this book inbetween a normal day job.
His website is a bit strange as well; he's only written this one book, but his site profiles him as this highly succesfull author. Maybe it's an investment in the future?