Category Archives: Scott Lynch

A lesson to learn from Peter Jackson (or, stating the obvious, part infinity plus eight)

By terje | Published: July 19, 2009
(Disclaimer: The following, while containing at least some opinions the author can sort of be said to hold, is more of an exploration than a presentation of ideas. It should all therefore be taken with a few barrelfuls of salt.) So I’m watching the appendices on the Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition DVD, and as [...]
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The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

By terje | Published: November 26, 2007
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. 2007. 662 pages. Gollancz trade paperback. This is the tale of Kvothe, a legend in his own time, as he tells it to Chronicler, a man who records the truth. Apparently, the book’s only the first third of a novel which ended up too long to be published as a single unit. [...]
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2007-10-19 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: October 19, 2007
It’s pretty fashionable, in the online goldfish bowl that seems to be the majority of genre criticism, to reflexively spit on the very concept of the fantasy series. But fuck ‘em. Snark is the cheapest of all forms of prose, and it comes no cheaper than from those who never had the vision or the [...]
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Red Seas Under Red Skies

By terje | Published: July 17, 2007
Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. Gollancz Fantasy 2007, 587 pages (tpb). I think this is my first review of a sequel, but RSURS is relatively independent of The Lies of Locke Lamora, so I’ll take my chances. The plot of RSURS is quite elegantly summed up by Locke himself, on page 554: Why did some stupid motherfucker [...]
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