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I just started Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. Now this opening really sets a mood.
quote:It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn's sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves.
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You should've continued until 13. For the most part I loved the novel--especially when he was trapped on the streets--but, near the end, the phonetic-writing tore me out of emersion a time or two (to figure out what the villager was saying).
I've been waiting book two for a while. (I read the alternate cover, first edition hardback.)
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Yeah, but even the first thirteen wouldn't have gotten me to the third silence. I've just started this one, but so far I'm really liking it.
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For the most part I loved the novel--especially when he was trapped on the streets--but, near the end, the phonetic-writing tore me out of emersion a time or two (to figure out what the villager was saying).
