| Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 10:56 pm A Quest |
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Current Mood:  impressed
Okay. Here's what I want you to do.
Go to your favorite bookseller. Barnes and Noble, Borders, your locally owned book shop, whoever. Alternatively, you can point your browser to your favorite online bookseller.
Now, by scanning the shelves yourself, getting help from the hired help, or typing it into the search bar, I want you to find The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Now you are going to purchase it. It's available in paperback now.
When it is in your hands and legally yours, I want you to open it up and begin reading. You may want to cancel any appointments or hot dates you have planned.
It isn't as though it's a fast-paced action fantasy page-turner--at least, it isn't yet, as far as I've gotten. But it's fascinating in the way a lava lamp is fascinating--not a whole lot has to happen for you to be completely transfixed.
It's incredibly difficult to find an author that can write like that. It's even more difficult to find one that will "waste" their talent in genre fiction, fantasy and sci-fi in particular having an odd sort of stigma to them. Most writers of talent such as this tend to be rather snooty and write long involved literary fiction about pottery and earthiness and male-femaleness and the wild pangs of the human condition. Stuff that's flowery and poetic but takes a fuckton of effort to actually get through. Stuff that ends up on Oprah's book list.
Though he has the talent for it, this book isn't like that. His writing style is definitely a unique one, weaving an exquisite tapestry that you don't even realize you've spent 3 yours studying. I've not gotten quite so far into it to determine if his world-building is as unique, but so far the system of magic is something I've not encountered before, and that is saying something.
At any rate, even though I'm only about 200 pages in, I strongly encourage all of you to head out and pick up a copy.
What are you still doing here? Go get the book! |
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