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Originally Posted by siraks

rippin through those c.s. lewis books.
everytime i look here i see you post another !!

i'm 66% through mockingjay overall the series as a whole is pretty good but the first book is top notch

me, everytime I look at your posts (which are pretty rare) I see you still read Hunger Games

yep, agree with you on that. Hunger games is awesome because it features brand new, interesting stuffs (annual anniversary in which teenagers participate in killing each other). Catching fire is a thumb-down compared to its prequel, nothing's mind-blowing. But it's a preparation for Mockingjay, so people has to read it if they don't want to miss such a terrific ending. The last book is much better than Hunger games, not because everything is brought to a peak, a crisis, but because it deepens the readers' thinking about that fictional world of Hunger Games event.

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I think that I will start on "The Kingkiller Chronicles" next, seeing the great reviews that it has received here so far.

if you don't mind waiting for the last book to be published, you should read it soon. when I finished the 2nd book, I thought, "What? This can't be the end! How come..." and then I felt so uneasy I googled it and they said "Kingkiller chronicles is a trilogy... the last book will be released on..."

I hate waiting I should've checked if it's fully published! First Riyria, now Kingkiller. I hate waiting, I hate waiting...

Originally Posted by Iridal

I've heard some great things about them as well, and was planning on reading them some time soon. Let us know what you think of them!

how about my review? on the first and second book, anyway.

It doesn't blow my mind as it's supposed to. Maybe I expected too much, but so many people praise it and well, I'd just finished Hunger Games before reading it so I expected it to be super! And Kingkiller series was killing me: twice or even three times the length of Hunger Games! It took me 2 days of hard reading to finish a single book Sore eyes...

Ok it's a nice read though. Story in story. In Kingkiller, an innkeeper tells his apprentice and a chronicler the story of his life. It takes several days for him to finish the story, and in the meantime there are some strange creatures come into town, people die, army marches, a suspectous robbery... all these events imply that the innkeeper's life story should extend to the nowaday, his adventure hasn't quite ended.

This is my review on the first book, I'll put it in the spoiler.

Spoiler:

I liked it and will read the sequel, though it really wasn't a "can't put down" one to my taste. These are 2 of my thoughts:

1. The speed is okay, however I want Rothfuss to push it a little more, description is never my favorite.

2. The characters are okay. I'd love to know more about Kvothe and Bast and even the smith's apprentice Aaron, but nothing truly impressive about that girl Denna who Kvothe falls for - she's a jerk in my opinion. Drops in and out of reach - I don't see any possible motivations behind that girl's actions, and her explanations about why she usually dissappears are nearly as hard to understand. Maybe the sequel would unveil this, but now I'm unsatisfied.

Originally Posted by thinkpadx

If A Game of Thrones is any indication of the pace the series is progressing, than I'm not sure if I'm interested to continue after the first book. Extremely many names and places to remember. I must admit that I like Elisabeth Moon's fantasy books better.

that made me stop reading it in the first place! I still can't bring myself to return, maybe it's a good idea to get paper and pencil to jot down the names and their relationships to help with remembering...