blogwaffe » books http://blogwaffe.com Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational blog station Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:59:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss http://blogwaffe.com/2009/01/29/the-name-of-the-wind-by-patrick-rothfuss/ http://blogwaffe.com/2009/01/29/the-name-of-the-wind-by-patrick-rothfuss/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:47:03 +0000 MDA http://blogwaffe.com/?p=497 On Greg and Michelle’s recommendations, I read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (check out his blog) a few weeks ago.

It’s the best book I’ve read in a long while. Unnameably good. For realies.

So good, in fact, that I left my living room, walked the mile to Borders on the 17th to see the author in person at a book reading/signing. So good that I “fanned” him on Facebook. So good that I’m actually blogging for once.

If I were stranded on a desert island and could only have one book with me (that’s a choice I get to make before getting stranded? that’s stupid), I would take a frisbee instead just to spite all those ego-hungry authors begging me to take their books. But I’d really think long and hard about The Name of the Wind first.

Pat is totally cool. He has professed undying love for Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, and Jamba Juice (not necessarily in that order) and signed Greg’s book for me with just that little extra something.

Signed title page of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Dear Greg,
I will cut you open and dance in your entrails.
Love Pat <3 xxoo

Now, if only I could get him (and his publisher?) off Blogger and onto WordPress. Hell, I could probably swing him a VIP on WordPress.com.

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