Comments on: Following Diogenes http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: New Publication: Clash of the Geeks. http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-18711 New Publication: Clash of the Geeks. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:02:30 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-18711 [...] 2008 the paperback came out and I hit the New York Times Bestseller list. Because of that I got even more attention. Offers to write comic books, video games,  and more [...] [...] 2008 the paperback came out and I hit the New York Times Bestseller list. Because of that I got even more attention. Offers to write comic books, video games,  and more [...]

]]> By: PirateXxEsque http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 PirateXxEsque Sun, 23 May 2010 07:31:22 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-2905 Did all of these older blogs have tons of comments, back in the day, or were you just not popular when you wrote them? :P I believe I have the same sort of curiosity. Even in my own city, I love walking around and kinda learning a new suburb, or a new road. Did all of these older blogs have tons of comments, back in the day, or were you just not popular when you wrote them? :P

I believe I have the same sort of curiosity.
Even in my own city, I love walking around and kinda learning a new suburb, or a new road.

]]> By: Circadian Spring http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-2814 Circadian Spring Fri, 21 May 2010 05:18:30 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-2814 [...] the third night I was out of options. I don’t own multiple coats. It goes against my whole philosophy. And while Sarah has roughly one Billion hats, they’re all too small for [...] [...] the third night I was out of options. I don’t own multiple coats. It goes against my whole philosophy. And while Sarah has roughly one Billion hats, they’re all too small for [...]

]]> By: Dischord http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6110 Dischord Sat, 03 May 2008 03:05:31 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6110 Why so happy about that ad in the New York Times? Your publisher just blew your entire promotional budget on a huge ad in a paper that fantasy readers don't read and that people who don't like fantasy do read. It's basically an easy way to blow off your promotion clause. Wouldn't it have been better to advertise your book in Locus and Asimov's and Cemetery Dance and every sci-fi/fantasy/anime/media convention program book in the country? You know, to the people who actually might buy the book? Why so happy about that ad in the New York Times? Your publisher just blew your entire promotional budget on a huge ad in a paper that fantasy readers don’t read and that people who don’t like fantasy do read. It’s basically an easy way to blow off your promotion clause. Wouldn’t it have been better to advertise your book in Locus and Asimov’s and Cemetery Dance and every sci-fi/fantasy/anime/media convention program book in the country? You know, to the people who actually might buy the book?

]]> By: Aegis http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6111 Aegis Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:14:35 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6111 Hee I have been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for about 7 years now. This week I am moving and marks the first time I will have a real bed. It's such a wonderful thing! I have some other furniture that I have scavenged off the streets on forays during garbage night. Carrying couches across town under the cover of night has greatly increased my upper body strength. Now if I could only convince myself to write more often and perhaps finish my book (if the flash games don't do me in) I can aspire to be like you. (most likely less critically acclaimed and more female)</></>Yay for beds! Celebrate the snuggliness of the new comforter!</>Horray! Hee I have been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for about 7 years now. This week I am moving and marks the first time I will have a real bed. It’s such a wonderful thing! I have some other furniture that I have scavenged off the streets on forays during garbage night. Carrying couches across town under the cover of night has greatly increased my upper body strength. Now if I could only convince myself to write more often and perhaps finish my book (if the flash games don’t do me in) I can aspire to be like you. (most likely less critically acclaimed and more female)Yay for beds! Celebrate the snuggliness of the new comforter!Horray!

]]> By: Josh http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6112 Josh Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6112 If life were like Planescape (oh, if only life were like Planescape), you'd be a member of the Sensate faction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faction_%28Planescape%29). If life were like Planescape (oh, if only life were like Planescape), you’d be a member of the Sensate faction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faction_%28Planescape%29).

]]> By: White-Tean http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6113 White-Tean Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:48:11 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6113 Move to Australia, here in Perth you can wander into any shopping centre wearing just a pair of boardshorts (at least, the surfer types always do~!)</></>Of course, that would require a second set of pants technically. Move to Australia, here in Perth you can wander into any shopping centre wearing just a pair of boardshorts (at least, the surfer types always do~!)Of course, that would require a second set of pants technically.

]]> By: matt http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6114 matt Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:36:53 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6114 You inspired me, Pat... I walked all the way to work yesterday barefoot and content. When I arrived five hours late with bloody feet, my boss reminded me of the "steel-toed boots" requirement. Damn! Tonight I'm throwing out the bed, which I won't need since I'm leaving for work 5 hours early :) You inspired me, Pat… I walked all the way to work yesterday barefoot and content. When I arrived five hours late with bloody feet, my boss reminded me of the “steel-toed boots” requirement. Damn! Tonight I’m throwing out the bed, which I won’t need since I’m leaving for work 5 hours early :)

]]> By: Teefers Treats http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6115 Teefers Treats Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:35:09 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6115 I love that you actually did go out without your shoes on. </></>And congratulations on making it big, Pat! I love that you actually did go out without your shoes on. And congratulations on making it big, Pat!

]]> By: Reverend Sin http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/04/following-diogenes/comment-page-1/#comment-6116 Reverend Sin Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:37:50 +0000 http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/?p=118#comment-6116 Dear Patrick,</></>I've been meaning to write a comment for you for some time now but haven't had the occasion to until now.</></>Like you, I've lived happily poor for most of my life, I have one pair of pants as well, one pair of shoes etc etc all of my stuff is hand me down, even parts of the PC I'm posting from.</></>However, the one thing that I have always splurged on, and will always continue to splurge on are novels.</></>Now, there's something you have to understand about me. I read a lot. I'm not saying that like someone who says "Oh I've read 10 or so novels this year." I'm talking like I've read 10 novels 'this month'. I own hundreds and hundreds of novels, probably in the thousands by now and I'm still quite young and hoping to read thousands more.</></>Having said that, I have to say something about Name of the Wind. On the day it was released I was wandering dejectedly through my local Borders, knowing full well there wasn't likely anything in the fantasy Fiction section that would be worth picking up as I'd already read everything in the fantasy fiction section and so far as I knew no established authors were due to release anything anytime soon. I was more killing time than anything.</></>Then it happened. To this day I still clearly remember, and often remark upon the feeling of passing by the shelf Name of the Wind was resting on. They hadn't faced them, they were all ordered like all of the other books and normally I would have just kept walking. But instead I stopped, for a reason I couldn't quite fathom, perhaps it was a deeper readers intuition saying "Hey, wait, there's something new here." So I turned around and I went back looking for it, and what I found was a hardbound copy of your novel.</></>So I sat down and read the opening chapter there in the store, and I was hooked. I couldn't stop reading, my fiancee reappeared from wherever she had been lurking in the mall and tried to usher me out, but I couldn't move, I was entranced. I knew immediately that I "had" to have this book, the cost of acquiring it was irrelevant, I needed it like a drowning man needs air. I vaguely remember paying for it on the way out, and I even feel kind of bad for the poor guy who checked me out because I wasn't in the mood for the usual polite banter that accompanies my transactions at this Borders, I tossed some bills at him and snarled at him and made it quite clear that if he didn't hand over my book I was going to take it, and probably his arm and half of the desk with it.</></>Thankfully my fiancee is the understanding sort that knew when the "Book Madness" was on me, so she wasn't too upset when I ignored her for the next 24 hours.</></>To say I read your book that first time would be inaccurate. I devoured it whole. It took nearly a year before enough of the story had faded in my mind for me to read it again, which I did just the other day.</></>I am slightly ashamed to admit that I loaned my copy of Name of the Wind to equally avid, yet substantially poorer associates of mine. It's become quite ragged in the last year, but has been passed through several pairs of hands in that time and is well loved.</></>I understand that you have First Time Author jitters, it's your baby and your excited to see it grow. I was happy to see it on the extended NY Times Best Seller list, though honestly I think it should have been #1 in any category they put it in for 2007.</></>I count among my collection every novel ever penned in the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Ravenloft settings. I have every novel written by Robert Jordan, David Gemmel, David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, Anne Bishop, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks, Mercedes Lackey, Kate Elliott, J.V. Jones, and an entire host of other no less esteemed authors. I am very, very proud to now count Patrick Rothfuss as a part of that list.</></>Name of the Wind was not just good, it was simply amazing. Your approach to telling Kvothe's story, the characters and the world they i Dear Patrick,I’ve been meaning to write a comment for you for some time now but haven’t had the occasion to until now.Like you, I’ve lived happily poor for most of my life, I have one pair of pants as well, one pair of shoes etc etc all of my stuff is hand me down, even parts of the PC I’m posting from.However, the one thing that I have always splurged on, and will always continue to splurge on are novels.Now, there’s something you have to understand about me. I read a lot. I’m not saying that like someone who says “Oh I’ve read 10 or so novels this year.” I’m talking like I’ve read 10 novels ‘this month’. I own hundreds and hundreds of novels, probably in the thousands by now and I’m still quite young and hoping to read thousands more.Having said that, I have to say something about Name of the Wind. On the day it was released I was wandering dejectedly through my local Borders, knowing full well there wasn’t likely anything in the fantasy Fiction section that would be worth picking up as I’d already read everything in the fantasy fiction section and so far as I knew no established authors were due to release anything anytime soon. I was more killing time than anything.Then it happened. To this day I still clearly remember, and often remark upon the feeling of passing by the shelf Name of the Wind was resting on. They hadn’t faced them, they were all ordered like all of the other books and normally I would have just kept walking. But instead I stopped, for a reason I couldn’t quite fathom, perhaps it was a deeper readers intuition saying “Hey, wait, there’s something new here.” So I turned around and I went back looking for it, and what I found was a hardbound copy of your novel.So I sat down and read the opening chapter there in the store, and I was hooked. I couldn’t stop reading, my fiancee reappeared from wherever she had been lurking in the mall and tried to usher me out, but I couldn’t move, I was entranced. I knew immediately that I “had” to have this book, the cost of acquiring it was irrelevant, I needed it like a drowning man needs air. I vaguely remember paying for it on the way out, and I even feel kind of bad for the poor guy who checked me out because I wasn’t in the mood for the usual polite banter that accompanies my transactions at this Borders, I tossed some bills at him and snarled at him and made it quite clear that if he didn’t hand over my book I was going to take it, and probably his arm and half of the desk with it.Thankfully my fiancee is the understanding sort that knew when the “Book Madness” was on me, so she wasn’t too upset when I ignored her for the next 24 hours.To say I read your book that first time would be inaccurate. I devoured it whole. It took nearly a year before enough of the story had faded in my mind for me to read it again, which I did just the other day.I am slightly ashamed to admit that I loaned my copy of Name of the Wind to equally avid, yet substantially poorer associates of mine. It’s become quite ragged in the last year, but has been passed through several pairs of hands in that time and is well loved.I understand that you have First Time Author jitters, it’s your baby and your excited to see it grow. I was happy to see it on the extended NY Times Best Seller list, though honestly I think it should have been #1 in any category they put it in for 2007.I count among my collection every novel ever penned in the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Ravenloft settings. I have every novel written by Robert Jordan, David Gemmel, David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, Anne Bishop, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks, Mercedes Lackey, Kate Elliott, J.V. Jones, and an entire host of other no less esteemed authors. I am very, very proud to now count Patrick Rothfuss as a part of that list.Name of the Wind was not just good, it was simply amazing. Your approach to telling Kvothe’s story, the characters and the world they i

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