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The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
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Andrew Smith
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Bryce Wilson's review
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5):
"Rothfuss's new novella, "Things Are Picked Up And Then Set Down Elsewhere" certainly lives up to its title. If you have a sexual fetish for descriptions of things moved from one place to another look out because Christmas has come fucking early.
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Eric's review
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5):
"Update: I am going to leave my earlier rant about Rothfuss below, since it received so much commentary — both positive and negative. Here I will leave my thoughts on the novella, now having read it.
There is no way I can review this without it looking" Read more of this review » |
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
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| Well, I can't say I wasn't warned. Rothfuss takes the unusual step of including both a note lowering expectations at the start of the book and a sort of confession at the end, and I can see why. Parts of this novella were good. His prose and creativi ...more | |
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D'un monde à l'autre (La Quête d'Ewilan, #1):
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When I started reading this book, I thought it was a step down from the first, and compounded its few errors. For example, I'd noted that The Name of the Wind seemed to end mid-act without any sort of conclusion. The Wise Man's Fear then opens with t ...more |
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The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
by Antonia Hodgson (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy |
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| A lovely idea that falters in its execution. I have no objection to jumping from character to character, one at a time, which seems to be where a lot of reviewers were left behind: I've written something similar myself, and beyond hypocrisy I think t ...more | |
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“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed red. "It is not those foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold."
"It is always cold on the Wall."
"You think so?"
"I know so, my lady."
"Then you know nothing, Jon Snow," she whispered.”
― A Dance with Dragons
"It is always cold on the Wall."
"You think so?"
"I know so, my lady."
"Then you know nothing, Jon Snow," she whispered.”
― A Dance with Dragons
“When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
