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pennie_dreadful) wrote2009-04-25 02:26 pm
pennie_dreadful) wrote2009-04-25 02:26 pm
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Writer's Block: LiveJournal Book Club
[Error: unknown template qotd]Oh god...! However do I pick just one?!
It's not that difficult. Hands down The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. That has to be the best fantasy book I've ever read. Period. Of course after I hit post I'll think of something else and second guess myself.
But the more I think of it, the more sure I am. It has all the best story elements: Action enough to keep it from being boring, a fantastic protagonist, fantastic secondary characters, and all of them well-fleshed out, believable human beings who make us smile, and make mistakes and (sometimes) learn from them. The right balance of detail and worldbuilding without making the book a slog, a great magic system...Pat just got it all right. And in his first book, too.
Can't wait for book 2!
It's not that difficult. Hands down The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. That has to be the best fantasy book I've ever read. Period. Of course after I hit post I'll think of something else and second guess myself.
But the more I think of it, the more sure I am. It has all the best story elements: Action enough to keep it from being boring, a fantastic protagonist, fantastic secondary characters, and all of them well-fleshed out, believable human beings who make us smile, and make mistakes and (sometimes) learn from them. The right balance of detail and worldbuilding without making the book a slog, a great magic system...Pat just got it all right. And in his first book, too.
Can't wait for book 2!
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And so nice to have something that feels original and clever - haven't had that in a book for a long while.
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Can't just have one...
I love all of Terry Pratchett's, and Jasper Fforde's. Also Sabriel by Garth Nix and Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne-Jones.