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I'm looking forward to it. It's been like two years since I chilled out with a good fantasy door stop, and I liked the first one. Yeah, I liked the book about the creepy little gay kid who went to hogwarts.
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Ok, right now im stuck on the part where he is going to learn kung fu from the nudist mercenary free love Tibetans. , but yeah, everything that was stupid or weird about the first book is back in this book, except stupider and weirder, but the stuff I loved about the first book, like the storytelling and the fun contrasts between the past and the present are there too, so it's not a bad book at all. There are a few (dozen?) chapters that just stop the story dead and are hard to get through, but it's all building up to something, and the villians of the book seem to be as good as Darth Vader or Voldemort, or at least that's how they're described, since they still haven't shown up, only one of them has a cameo in the story so far, but a few of the others got a shout out.
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The problem with this book, is that we get all these short stories and he goes on a big adventure, but it doesn't build up to anything, and doesn't really end. The third book is probably going to build up to all the awesome scenes that should have been in this book, and I get the feeling that killing the king, starting the war and figuring out what the hell was up with the Amyr is probably all going to be handled in the same chapter. Either that or he takes five years to publish another thousand pages of filler. I guess it could go either way. Or maybe authors should just stop trying to write massive epic fantasy series , because it seems like no one ever finishes the loving things. Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Mar 22, 2011 |
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Mar 22, 2011 08:04
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Be honest, there wouldn't be any "clever phrasing", it would be Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Undergrads set in Hogwarts. Name of the Wind is fun as a book , it would be awkward in a visual medium. The main character is 10-15 for half the book, and there's no way Fox gives this the budget or the time it would need. They just want a cheap knock off of Game of Thrones; It's like when ABC threw Empire together to try to get Rome's audience.
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Jul 23, 2013 11:00
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Hah, yes. I loved Mistborn, but I had to put down Alloy of Law because the plot felt like it belonged in a 90's video game...also the dialogue, and the characters.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:01
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I loved Name of the Wind back when I was in high school. (seven years ago, wow) Reading it again makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking. I'm guessing most of us understand it's a very flawed series, but still want to know how it ends.
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Aug 1, 2014 18:37
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I loved the Farseer books. Fitz is really self centered and the author kind of plays around with it. I remember there's a scene in one of the books where he's walking around town and meets his mother, and she freaks out and has to be held down by his grandmother, but he completely fails to realize who they are. There's a couple of scenes like that in every book actually.
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Oct 8, 2014 06:54
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What? And close the thread for the next five+ years? Benson Cunningham posted:Only in recent years. I was really on board with the first book and I have two signed copies of it. I've spoken with Rothfuss several times in real life and in conversation he is a normal, nerdy dude. We're only so critical because we are so disappointed. Maybe our expectations were unrealistically high in the first place for what amounts to a young adult fantasy novel. Yeah, I'd have to agree, but I also think the first book created so much hype with its fun , new spin on the genre that the sequel could never have lived up to it. The Lies of Locke Lamora also suffered from that.
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Jan 9, 2015 09:08
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I read this series in highschool, and liked it. 
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Jan 19, 2017 21:12
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I thought Tak was just Go , it's not like he ever described it in depth , and I don't think it was even important to the plot. Also, I just looked it up and that book came out six years ago, goddamn.
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Apr 9, 2017 07:28
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Sampatrick posted:Obviously Robert Jordan is the American Tolkien. Fight me IRL
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You can tell he was going for the traditional urban fantasy crowd at first. There's a bunch of sex vampires all through the series ,and there was a book where Dresden worked in the porn industry and fought porn star witches.
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