I really liked it, definitely looking forward to the next book.
I was kinda annoyed with all the people that kept calling it a Harry Potter rip off (the whole student at a "wizard school" trope).
I was kinda annoyed with all the people that kept calling it a Harry Potter rip off (the whole student at a "wizard school" trope).
I think the people calling it a Harry Potter ripoff haven't actually read this book. The only similarity between the two is that both characters are learning magic at their respective schools. In the ways that they learn, there's no comparison.
I'm noticing that most of the authors I've really been liking the recently all seem to be overweight men with bushy beards (Martin, Jordan, Rothfuss, Stross, Stirling). Is it possible they are all really the same highly prolific man with multiple personality disorder? I've never seen any pictures with more than one of them in it at a time!
You know, I noticed the same thing. In fact, before Jordan died, I was convinced that he and George R R Martin were the same person. Their jacket photos look almost identical.
That theory probably would explain why it's taking the authors I've actually read (Martin, Rothfuss) so long to come out with their next books. Only one persona can write at a time. Anyone else read Stirling or Stross and notice the same time lag in new releases?
I got home from a wedding in St Andrews this morning and guess what I discovered?
- 25/10/2009 11:58:31 AM
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at least you got the cover without the gay porn guy on the front. 
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- 25/10/2009 12:54:18 PM
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- 25/10/2009 12:54:18 PM
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Heh, that is an UGLY cover. *NM*
- 25/10/2009 01:28:20 PM
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I have that one, the Fabio cover. It's a first edition, though, so not complaining. *NM*
- 26/10/2009 10:37:48 AM
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Going to San Francisco on Tuesday for work (5 hours from NJ).....picked up the book yesterday
- 25/10/2009 03:16:10 PM
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Read and finished
- 25/10/2009 04:13:25 PM
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read it last year (might contain a spoiler, but probably nothing not on the dust jacket already)
- 25/10/2009 05:40:42 PM
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I noticed the same thing
- 25/10/2009 06:16:41 PM
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when are the rest of us unwashed masses gonna be able to put images in our posts?? ::sniff sniff:: *NM*
- 25/10/2009 05:38:52 PM
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Make him do that for me
- 26/10/2009 08:30:49 PM
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Awwww.
- 26/10/2009 08:35:16 PM
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Came in at the library, must pick it up sometime this week. Perhaps Friday. *NM*
- 28/10/2009 09:24:57 PM
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