I don't think it was anywhere near my "OMG BEST EVAR!" list, but it wasn't actively bad despite wanting to choke out the main character sometimes (okay often).
The character telling his own story, so one has to read between the lines, as it were, rather than just accepting everything at face value as one would had the author chosen an omniscient style. The omniscient narrator exists, but only in the interludes, leaving most of the storytelling to the main character. That adds depth, giving the reader a puzzle beyond the plot, which is fairly straightforward fantasy.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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You're a fag got a whole lot of nerve:
Books are boring
you are dumb
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Liam spewed forth this undeniable truth:
you are dumb
u wana fight nerd?
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A sleep deprived Nina stammered:
If it's anything like Da Vinci Code, it's "good" because people have no fucking taste.
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In that they are absolutely hugely different books and have nothing really in common based on the other stuff from Dan Brown I've read, yes you're completely correct.
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Nina got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
If it's anything like Da Vinci Code, it's "good" because people have no fucking taste.
No, it's nothing like that at all, I can assure you.
I'm not saying it's a bad book, by any means: the prose is excellent, the plot is okay and some of the characters are pretty nice. I'm just wondering why it's frequently being hailed as Jesus coming down and picking up a sword and stabbing Hitler's zombie to death and the sweet blood that comes out are the pages to these books.
I've heard the "unreliable narrator" bit. That can be interesting...if there's anything to compare it to. Since the Chronicler or Bast rarely comment on the story, and we never have a hint as to what the effects are if the narrator is actually lying, I can't say as I see a whole lot to read between the lines in.
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Mr. Parcelan stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I'm just wondering why it's frequently being hailed as Jesus coming down and picking up a sword and stabbing Hitler's zombie to death and the sweet blood that comes out are the pages to these books.
I have absolutely no idea what Name of the Wind is about. I only made the parallel because I've started reading Da Vinci Code lately and I've been feeling the exact same thing you seem to be hinting at: "Why the fuck is this book supposed to be good?"
Yeah, I'm just bitter at being tricked into reading a shitty book, especially following The Kite Runner. 
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Nina had this to say about Punky Brewster:
"Why the fuck is this book supposed to be good?"
dan brown makes stupid people feel clever
