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   Derek Broughton to Taemon   
   Re: SF & F   
   13 Aug 09 09:18:31   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Taemon wrote:   
   >   
   >> BTW, I can recommend "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss (not   
   >> German, despite the name). A really good read.   
   >   
   > Ah, got that to review... let me dig that up... I wrote:   
   ...   
   > Rough translation:   
   ...   
   > Contains superfluous map.   
      
   Define "superfluous map"?  I hate books that involve any traveling that   
   don't make some attempt to provide a map...   
   --   
   derek   
      
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