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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #45 on: August 15, 2009, 02:08:57 AM »
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More people need to know about this book.

I agree. We must spread the PR!!! (Doesn't have quite the ring BS has, does it?  :-\ Oh, well.)
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #46 on: August 15, 2009, 02:20:31 AM »
Hey, they're still both acronyms. :P

But yes. BS's is much better. Bull "crap" or Public Relations?
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« Reply #47 on: August 15, 2009, 03:48:17 AM »
Why Public Address? It is an R, and Address doesn't start with R......   Plus pr widely stands for Public Relations.
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #48 on: August 15, 2009, 04:00:54 AM »
Oh, wow. I just had a total brain freeze.  :-[ Don't feel bad about deleting that. . . .
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #49 on: August 15, 2009, 05:55:10 AM »
Except that then my post looks really stupid when I suddenly start questioning about why public address for no apparent reason....
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #50 on: August 15, 2009, 06:21:29 AM »
Edit away, my friend!
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #51 on: August 15, 2009, 10:37:42 PM »
If you delete yours, I'll delete mine.  :P
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #52 on: August 16, 2009, 01:38:12 AM »
But... you... already....

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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #53 on: August 16, 2009, 02:14:54 AM »
The ones AFTER that, sortitus. Please. This is such a pointless conversation. Can we just DELETE them?!?  :P

Seriously tho.
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #54 on: August 16, 2009, 02:30:11 AM »
I like Patty's books.
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #55 on: August 17, 2009, 05:35:06 PM »
I do not expect book 2 to break any new ground. Book 1 didn't. It took cliches and presented them in interesting ways and subverted some of them. I expect more of the same from book 2, and I expect to enjoy it about as much. (Which is quite a lot.)
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #56 on: August 23, 2009, 01:19:24 AM »
What's funny is that Patrick Rothfuss seems to be convinced that Name of the Wind was the most groundbreaking novel ever, and is not at all cliche. I tend to think that it just presents cliches in better, more interesting ways than usual.
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #57 on: August 25, 2009, 06:45:01 PM »
He wrote a 662 page book that people are in love with that doesn't have a climax.  That seems like breaking new ground to me.
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« Reply #58 on: August 25, 2009, 06:54:42 PM »
I would say it has a climax of sorts, what leads up to him paying off what he owes. It's the climax to that plot arc at least, though not for the book as a whole, and it comes in about the right place for the book as a whole.
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Re: Patrick Rothfuss
« Reply #59 on: January 01, 2010, 01:21:38 PM »
2009 was a disappointing year for my favorite authors. Rothfuss: delayed. Lynch: Delayed. Martin: Delayed.

God Bless Brandon Sanderson and Jim Butcher. Without those two, I wouldn't have ANY of my favorite series to read.
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