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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[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

I keep picking that up in bookstores for similar reasons, but then I open it up and read a few sentences of "let me tell you the tale of my awesome" first person and I break out in Anne-Rice hives or something. I don't even know. I want to read it, but I just can't quite believe I'll enjoy it.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

It's not...bad.

It's just really really not what I like to read. Like, I was fooled by the first bits, which are 3rd person and I kind of glossed over the pretentious sounds of silence opening because whatever, prologues are sometimes that way, and then I got all excited and woo! about the fact that it was a meta narrative about telling stories and how those work and are exaggerated and whatnot and then...I ended up liking people who get a mention every 20 pages, if that, and are not really important to the story and hating everyone that *was* important.

And now I am all cranky because I got to the end and it repeated, word-for-word, the pretentious opening pages *and* it's the beginning of a trilogy with no publication date for the next book *and* the lead guy is kind of annoyingly self-centered and emo. Boo x100000000.