[quote=@psych0pomp]
"Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss.

No offense to the people that love that book, but it's about the Gary-est Stu that ever Stu-d, and his (not literally) manic pixie dream girl who states that she doesn't deserve him. So instead, he has sex with everything else and bemoans that he's a too smart orphan, and no one gets him. The end. Except that it's not, because the third book hasn't been written. And it's been 10 years. So, none of the above can be tied up into a believable package. I will die mad about it. Thank you for asking.[/quote]

In defence of Rothfuss and Name of the Wind, I think a lot of people potentially misread Kvothe as a positive heroic archetype, when if anything I think he's meant to something of a negative one. Kvothe is brilliant and amazing etc. But it doesn't get him anywhere, he continually self sabotages and fucks things up through his arrogance and pride, he's literally his own worst enemy in a lot of the shit that happens to him. And we know he's gonna do something truly terrible by story's end. Kvothe is not a good person a lot of time, and I don't think Rothfuss holds him up as a paragon of virtue or even someone you should aspire to be. I certainly didn't read it that way. 

But discussing Name of the Wind is not the point of this thread, so here's my contribution:

This whole thing reminded me for section I read in the comedian Frankie Boyle's autobiography, [i]My Shit Life So Far[/i], about a one night stand he had with an older woman, and how he never came back because of the contents of her bookcase.

[quote=Frankie Boyle]It sort of ended badly because she had this shelf of books under the TV. It contained every commercial book that you'd seen people reading on a train for the previous few years: [i]Captain Corelli's Mandolin[/i] and so on. I thought it was an ironic statement, a sort of joke, and complimented her on what I took to be some kind of artistic critique about the mundanity of modern culture. It transpired that this was her actual library and our utter incompatibility was suddenly obvious. Still, it was fun. Two days may actually be the perfect length for a relationship.[/quote]