drive-by book-pimpage
Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind owns a piece of my soul now. Rothfuss doesn't pull punches with his characters, his narrative voice makes me a happy little monkey, and there's enough going on in the storyline that I'm nomming at the shelves waiting for his second book.
Basically, a guy who used to be a legendary hero gets dragged out of hiding/retirement and is coaxed into telling his life story. From there we get a very knotted story about him getting pwnd over and over by the universe and emerging more awesome because of it, about the strange ways legends change with time, and eventually about him versus a dragon on psuedo-heroin.
A dragon on heroin is very much like a dancing bookbag, I believe--you can't quite argue with it.
What else can I say? This guy is good and worth trying out.
(Also, the main character? A redhead.)
Also coming in line with my grabby little paws are Christopher Moore's Fool, Anne Bishop's Shadow Queen, and the upcoming books from Ariana Franklin & Charlaine Harris. (I'm scared but hopeful.)*waves Sookie/Eric flag like the goofy little fangirl she is*
Basically, a guy who used to be a legendary hero gets dragged out of hiding/retirement and is coaxed into telling his life story. From there we get a very knotted story about him getting pwnd over and over by the universe and emerging more awesome because of it, about the strange ways legends change with time, and eventually about him versus a dragon on psuedo-heroin.
A dragon on heroin is very much like a dancing bookbag, I believe--you can't quite argue with it.
What else can I say? This guy is good and worth trying out.
(Also, the main character? A redhead.)
Also coming in line with my grabby little paws are Christopher Moore's Fool, Anne Bishop's Shadow Queen, and the upcoming books from Ariana Franklin & Charlaine Harris. (I'm scared but hopeful.)