BTT: Favorite Unknown

{ January 21, 2010 @ 10:14 am } · { Booking Through Thursday }
{ Tags: Books, Fantasy, Kvothe, Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss }

Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard of them. The author that you think should be that famous and can’t understand why they’re not… 

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I can think of several good choices here but the first person I thought of was Patrick Rothfuss, author of Name of the Wind.  

Here’s a blurb from his website: 

THE POWERFUL DEBUT NOVEL FROM FANTASY’S NEXT SUPERSTAR
Told in Kvothe’s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet’s hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard. 

I’ve already mentioned this book in several posts because I cannot stress enough how incredible it was and how much I loved it.  Every fantasy reader should own a copy.  I couldn’t put it down and I’ve been waiting for the sequel ever since.  After I read it,  I made my husband and then my cousin who then made her husband and no one has been disappointed yet, despite the major praise I gave it beforehand.  To me, it was fantasy perfected. 

I’m sure when the sequel finally does hit the shelves I’ll devour it like a crazed person and then wait in agony until the third installment is released. 

Bravo, Mr. Rothfuss, and please keep your work coming!  I’ll be waiting with as much patience as I can muster.

Have you read this book?  Who’s your favorite unknown?