This guy has been getting more praise on Jesus lately, and I've been meaning to check out this book. I just bought it tonight. And although I'm only a couple chapters in, I can safely say that Rothfuss' prose is fucking top-notch. And there's like a thousand pages to go

Shit. This book is slowly rising up on my favorite books list.

And I'm not even halfway through it yet.

I've really started getting in to graphic novels (and consolidated comics, which constitute most graphic novels these days), and one series I've been reading is particularly amazing:



Basically, the premise is that all the myths, fables, folk tales, legends, and stories you can think of are real, they just take place in separate dimensions. Recently, a figure known as "The Adversary" and his armies have been invading the other realms and killing/enslaving them. Places like Narnia and Oz have fallen to the Adversary's advances.

So many of the refugees of these worlds have escaped through dimensional portals and taken sanctuary in the "Mundane World," our world. The remaining refugees formed a community called Fabletown, which is sort of a sub-culture in New York that lives in an apartment building, but has its own government. The non-human fables live on a huge mass of farm land in rural New York, also coordinated by the ecumenical government of Fabletown. King Cole presides as mayor, with Snow White as his assistant. Bigby Wolf (the Big Bad Wolf from the 3 Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood) is the sherrif, and is by far my favorite character.

Basically, all the fairytales are dysfunctional. Prince Charming has been married to and divorced Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella (it was all the same prince), and is currently mooching off of European royalty. Beauty and the Beast are still married after all these years, but the Beast's curse returns in proportion to how angry she is with him. The creatures from "The Jungle Book" and "Animal Farm" along with dragons and giants and what not live on The Farm. The last refugees of the Fable worlds took their Last Stand against the armies of the Adversary at Helm's Deep (Robin Hood, St. George, etc were all there). It's pretty much amazing.

If any of you dudes want to borrow the volumes, let me know.

I am letting you know.

I know Sarah would love these as well. They sound freakin' awesome.

That's a pretty cool idea for a series. I swear I've heard it someone else before though...

Wouldn't the dudes who make this have to pay a lot of $$ in order to use all of those Disney characters?

Thankfully, you cannot trademark names. I'm sure if they use the likenesses in the books, then they'd get into legal issues. But you can't stop them from writing a story with a Cinderella in it.

Disney didn't create most of the characters in their own movies, just the particular interpretations of the original characters.

So nope, the creator of Fables can thumb his nose all he wants (they even make fun of Disney in many places).



Remind me and I'll bring them the next time I come to practice (whenever that is :p).

Not reading anything at the moment. I sure do want the thrid Wheel of Time book though... only just realised what I've been missing by not having read this series.

I'm not the biggest Jordan fan, but I have read the first few books. I think the first and second are solid fantasy reads, but as I slowly trudged through book three and stopped midway through book four, I can't really recommend this series. I want to like it, because it's so beefy. But the writing does not captivate me. I think for beefy series, people should check out Steven Erikson. This dude is serious. I'm in the middle of the second book "Deadhouse Gates". The first book "Gardens of the Moon" is fantastic. It's HUGE without being grossly boring sometimes like Jordan.