The beauty in this book was breathtaking. Rothfuss’s structure, world building, and character development are so rich and colorful it almost feels like the world is jumping off the page at you in bright, vivid, reality. It may be sacrilegious to say, but I feel that Rothfuss could become this century’s Tolkien. His love for music, lyrical poetry and folklore bleed through every page of this novel in the best way possible. As much as I was gushing about this series after finishing “A Wise […]
We’re All A Little Richard Mayhew
This is my third Gaiman book, and I am continually impressed by Gaiman’s ability to break down every trope of the genre and rebuild it in a way that both continues to be fantastical but also makes it accessible. “Neverwhere” is a dark, dangerous, high stakes journey that in the hands of any other fantasy writer would need a main character of power, or at least someone with an attribute that sets them apart. But Gaiman chooses to tell his story through someone so average, […]
No Sh*t, Sherlock
My sister and her boyfriend lent me this book saying they’d had to read it for a college class, and that it had opened their eyes. Since neither my sister nor her boyfriend are big readers, I was intrigued. “Who Moved My Cheese” is broken up into 4 parts: a long and rambling introduction that sounds much more like a 3 AM infomercial than a prologue, a “situation” in which the author sets up his metaphor, the metaphor itself, and then a return to the […]