FAY! I, too, just finished reading The Name of the Wind and agree that it is awesome for all the reasons you stated!! Here, have a post.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Jan 07, 2009 10:25:07 pm PST #8291 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 10:22:11 am PST #8292 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm able to ration chapters and keep myself from staying up too late reading but it's a battle to put it down sometimes. Still I'm less than 200 pages in.
When Fay wrote about stories within stories within stories I thought it might be confusing but now that I'm in the thick of it I understand. The beginnings of tales are good places to take a break. Maybe if I take long enough reading I won't be done until April 7th when The Wise Man's Fear comes out.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 11:08:07 am PST #8293 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Still I'm less than 200 pages in.
You haven't even hit the Harry Potter section yet!
When Fay wrote about stories within stories within stories I thought it might be confusing but now that I'm in the thick of it I understand.
There's an entire fantasy world IN this fantasy world.
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 2:01:35 pm PST #8294 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
You haven't even hit the Harry Potter section yet!
I was so glad to see he still goes to school but I suppose he must, if he grows up to be himself. Right now I'm in my head yelling at him that man knows you! He called you by name and you never told him! Why do you think he keeps saying things your dad used to say?! sheesh.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 2:19:29 pm PST #8295 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wait, who are you talking about in your whitefont?
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 2:34:12 pm PST #8296 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
maybe I'm reading too much into it and introductions were implied in the text but I'm talking about... crud I forget his name: the skinny old storyteller.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 2:44:35 pm PST #8297 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Skarpi? I don't think he knows Kvothe before he meets him. Or do you mean wossname, Tapis, who tells the story of Tehlu? Either way.
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 2:49:28 pm PST #8298 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I do mean Skarpi. When he gets arrested he says something like, "Kvothe- there's nothing you can do- get out of here." but I paged back and couldn't find a passage with Kvothe telling Skarpi his name .
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2009 3:02:34 pm PST #8299 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hrm. Interesting. Kvothe is pretty sharp, though, and I think he would have picked up on that, just as he picked up on Haliax. Which was a totally awesome moment, and I love that he acknowledged that we were in a better position to pick up on it than he was, so it wasn't as OMG IMMEDIATE for him as it was for us.
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 4:09:06 pm PST #8300 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I got mad the second time he told us readers that he shouldn't go into detail about certain horrors and then proceeded to go into detail anyway.