Reading roundup -- Soulless and The Name of the Wind

Dec 04, 2011 13:39

59. Gail Carriger, Soulless -- cute and mostly enjoyable, but I can't say I like it. ( Spoilers! )

a: patrick rothfuss, a: walter moers, reading, kvothe, soulless, geekery, a: gail carriger

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hamsterwoman December 6 2011, 18:41:04 UTC
I don't really know about fandom, but I certainly do.

Oh good! :) Bast is definitely my favorite thing about the present-day storyline, and I can't wait to get to the part of the story where Kvothe first meets him and takes him on as a student.

and the visit to the shoemaker as a sort of culmination of it - the shoemaker bit and the symbolism of it really stuck with me.

I did like the shoemaker scene... one thing about Tarbean, I guess, is that it felt to me a bit too much like the city was divided into saints and monsters, with the exception of the pawn shop owner, maybe, who was adequately gray.

I quite liked the colloquiality of the language, and the mixing of actual scientific and invented scientific words. For me that added up to a pretty modern feel, which I thought went very well with the generally scientific nature of the magic.

the hero is a redhead singer actor warlock extraordinaire, seriously, in no universe I would say no to that."

Heh. I think there might be a line coming beyond which Kvothe will start feeling simply too unbelievable to me under the weight of all that amazingness, but for now I felt like all of his skills were within my abilities to suspend disbelief for. (And I do have a soft spot for redheads as well :)

And thank you for the fanart links! Very pretty! Having looked at several representations of Kvothe now, I find myself wondering more about what the secondary characters look like. I think, perverse as ever, I most want to see fanart of the University masters, which I doubt exists... :P

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