I started reading "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" but stopped about a third of the way in. It just bored me which was surprising. I went into it not realizing it was a young adult book. And it's definitely a young adult book. I didn't really care for the main character I guess. And if I don't like the main character, I have a hard time liking the book. Plus I just came off another book that bored me - Robopocalypse, so I was short on patience.
Has anyone read the Kingkiller Chronicle books by Patrick Rothfuss? I keep hearing really good things and I'm considering giving them a try after ADWD.
I have, Rayne! They're really good. I don't read much epic fantasy, but it was pitched to me as "epic fantasy for people who don't read epic fantasy," so that worked.
Elio and Linda (from Westeros.org) talk about character parallels that GRRM has set up in A Song of Ice and Fire.
Spoilers for all 4 books and the sample chapter of ADWD that was published in the paperback edition of AFFC. (That's the other reason to still get the paperback edition of ADWD - a sample of WoW.)
GRRM is doing a book signing on the north side of town next Saturday. Do I want to go? It'll be super crazy, and I'll hate all the people, right? It's a wealthy, busy area of town on a normal day. But it'll be insane for that kind of event, right?
Rayne, I have also read the Rothfuss books, and I liked them very, very much! BIG recommend!
I DL'd the sample chapter of "Miss Peregrine's..." and really wanted to like it...and didn't.
I'm sure it will be crazy. . .
Man. . . somebody posted at Westeros that Waterstone sent their book already (probably arriving tomorrow) and somebody else got a call from the local bookshop that their copy was ready to be picked up and meanwhile, Amazon doesn't even have my copy (of ADWD) "shipping soon."
Interview with GRRM's editor.
