Evening to you! The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss continues to be a really, really long book, but endlessly enjoyable none-the-less. I've managed to make it to page 612, so I'm officially over halfway through! So far I think Kvothe is actually better of in this book than book one, while avoiding spoilers I will say he's fallen into the favor of a rich person who doesn't want to kill or flog him, which is exceedingly good news considering his luck. I'm truly looking forward to him going on to do even more epic adventuring, and hopefully we'll see present day Kvothe become a bit more motivated once again.
Onto the question of movie adaptations. Recently movie adaptations have gotten quite a bit better than we've seen them to be in the past. I think we can all agree Peter Jackson improved Ralph Bakshi's telling of The Lord of The Rings (Why did he rob Aragorn of his pants? Bollocks! The poor strider deserves his pants!) But putting aside the God-awful efforts of the 90's to adapt fantasy novels, recently with some notable exceptions, these film efforts have improved monumentally.
For these good film adaptations, I actually believe it does encourage people to read the books. If one sees a movie they truly enjoy, then a lot of people, even more hesitant readers may be encouraged to see where it all began. However, if the film was terrible, we can all see how this would backfire. Ultimately, I think these movies can only aid the books as long as they were created with love for the books in mind. So film on Peter Jackson, and begone Ralph Bakshi! For all good books deserve good films, but not even the most miserable books deserve to be maimed by cheap Hollywood efforts!
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