Many of my friends are absolutely gaga for Rothfuss, but I can't seem to get into him. I read "The Name of the Wind", and I thought it was... okay. Not great, but entertaining and technically well-written.
It seems half the internet is crazy about him, but I also don't get the appeal. I didn't finish The Name of the Wind, but perhaps I was just not in the right headspace at the time.
It's good, but it's not his best work. My favorite of his is The Android's Dream, with close runners-up being Agent to the Stars and Fuzzy Nation.
I haven't read anything by him, so I must check some of these out at some point.
Have you read her other books?
Yep. I've read...just about everything she's ever written. I think I might be missing two or three short stories, but I've definitely read all her novels. I actually used "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" in my sci-fi class. I long ago accepted that my tastes diverge completely with those of other Willis fans; I just prefer her depressing stories, and Passage is one of the most haunting novels I've ever read. To Say Nothing of the Dog is in the running for my least favorite of hers, though Remake and Promised Land beat it. I fail at British humor, though, because I also don't find Dorothy Sayers funny or entertaining at all, and that seems to be the big dividing line between whether you like TSNOTD or not. (Though oddly, come to think of it, I do like Three Men in a Boat, from whence the title comes.)
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Date: 2011-08-19 06:27 pm (UTC)It seems half the internet is crazy about him, but I also don't get the appeal. I didn't finish The Name of the Wind, but perhaps I was just not in the right headspace at the time.
It's good, but it's not his best work. My favorite of his is The Android's Dream, with close runners-up being Agent to the Stars and Fuzzy Nation.
I haven't read anything by him, so I must check some of these out at some point.
Have you read her other books?
Yep. I've read...just about everything she's ever written. I think I might be missing two or three short stories, but I've definitely read all her novels. I actually used "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" in my sci-fi class. I long ago accepted that my tastes diverge completely with those of other Willis fans; I just prefer her depressing stories, and Passage is one of the most haunting novels I've ever read. To Say Nothing of the Dog is in the running for my least favorite of hers, though Remake and Promised Land beat it. I fail at British humor, though, because I also don't find Dorothy Sayers funny or entertaining at all, and that seems to be the big dividing line between whether you like TSNOTD or not. (Though oddly, come to think of it, I do like Three Men in a Boat, from whence the title comes.)