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.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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 08, 2009 2:44:35 pm PST #8297 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Barb - Jan 09, 2009 12:32:28 pm PST #8301 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Librarian types, I need help deciphering something. I was on BN.com earlier looking to replenish some supplies and I found this: [link]
* Publisher: Paw Prints * Pub. Date: May 2008 * ISBN-13: 9781435284647 * Edition Description: Reprint
At a price of $18.95!
Compared to the original entry: [link]
I mean, Paw Prints? WTF? Some cursory searching seems to indicate this is a Library Binding, which his why I ask here. Any ideas? Suggestions?
Kathy A - Jan 09, 2009 12:43:55 pm PST #8302 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Library binding is a way to make the spine extra strong for repeated abuses by the book's reader(s). I just had a woman pick up her special order of the last four Harry Potter books all in library binding. She already had the first three and told me that she prefers the stronger binding for the bigger books.
Kate P. - Jan 11, 2009 6:15:16 am PST #8303 of 28431
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Barb, I looked up Adios on Ingram (which we use for fiction ordering at my library) and the library binding edition is published by Topeka Bindery for $13.86, ISBN: 9781417812585. So that's not the same one. I've never heard of Paw Prints and they don't appear to be an imprint of S&S. Weird!
Deena - Jan 13, 2009 3:59:35 pm PST #8304 of 28431
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Barb, take a look at this thread on Absolute Write: [link]
dcp - Jan 14, 2009 5:10:16 pm PST #8305 of 28431
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
If you liked The Kite Runner, check out Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time.
Non-fiction, about a mountain climber who has been building schools in the remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Evocative and very accurate descriptions of what the people and places in that area are like, and what their lives are like. Brought back a lot of very good memories.
On Wikipedia: [link]
On Amazon.com: [link]
Ginger - Jan 19, 2009 4:50:12 pm PST #8306 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda