the name of the wind

[mimesere]

so, I bought this book because...uh. Well, because it was there, mostly, and it was a nice thick book and the reviews were good and the back cover copy was suitably interesting.

you guys. you guys. it's really kind of pretentious. also in first person. also about a person who is kind of iffy on the ethics. also the first part of a trilogy. AUGH.

AUGH. DAMMIT. WHY DO PEOPLE PERSIST IN THIS NOTION THAT MORAL AMBIGUITY = "COMPLEXITY"? I HAVE YET TO SEE MORAL AMBIGUITY DONE IN A WAY THAT SAYS SOMETHING OTHER THAN, "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME I'M A SELF-CENTERED, THOUGHTLESS ASSHOLE."

/grumpy

i'ma go read another ggk book. good people doing fucked up things ftw.

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[nyagosstar.livejournal.com]

thank god you've written this. i've had no less than three people whose opinions about books i value, tell me i would love this. but the cover puts me off and i just, i'm all, *shrugs* about it.

and i hate first person. i feel like if i'm reading first person, it should be fanfiction and it should be for free.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I didn't know it was first person when I bought it. If I had known, I wouldn't have bought it at all because I...do not like first person at ALL. I only really tolerate it in urban fantasy novels because I have a weakness for those and they don't seem to come in any other flavor.

But yeah, no, I read it, the first 3 pages were pretentious as all get out, it just got *more* pretentious and now I am damn sick of reading the same old fantasy over and over and over again. Brilliant (boy) child, grows up to be a marvel at everything, falls in love with a girl who is somehow at the heart of what goes horribly wrong, kills a king, and also there are elves/fae/what-have-you. CUT IT OUT, YOU GUYS. I would be afraid of spoiling it for you, but srsly, I could be talking about like ninety bazillion books with that. If it's not that book, it's prophecy born (boy) child, some great dark evil, big giant battle for the soul of the world. Boo.