Christie Golden appears at Loveland, CO Barnes and Noble today
by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 16th 2009 at 8:30AM
Here's a heads up to all our readers in the general area of Loveland, Colorado. Christie Golden will appear at 2 PM Today at your local Barnes and Noble to sign copies of her New York Times best selling book, Arthas. If you're in the area and don't need to be glued to your computer waiting for BlizzCon tickets -- or are lucky enough to get one of the first tickets -- this is a pretty decent use of a Saturday afternoon, I'd say.And whether you're in Colorado or California or anywhere else, if you haven't checked Arthas out yet, it's definitely worth a shot. If you have anything more than a passing interest in WoW Lore, you owe it to yourself to buy or borrow this book. Not only is it the best piece of non-game Warcraft fiction according to multiple members of the WoW Insider team, but it contains tidbits of lore and happenings that are almost sure to figure prominently in future patches and expansions. You can read our review of the book for more of my gushing on the book.
But anyway, if you're in the Loveland area and happen to drop by Barnes and Noble, let us know if anything cool goes down, and happy reading.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lsschwartz May 16th 2009 9:16AM
*Has a bit of some spoilers but not much*
It’s a good book, but I had one problem with it. She made Arthas to nice in his childhood. How can this charismatic young prince turned out to be the lich king? I mean just cus’of a demon taunting him? Anybody with a half brain would of noticed that Kel and Mal were setting Arthas up. But she can’t do much about that part of the story cus’ it’s already set in stone(WC3) but she could of made Arthas internal dialogue and mind set a bit darker when he was growing up. Make him have a darker side one filled with conflict to make him turning to the lich king easier. Show that maybe his niceness was all a façade or that he was really power hungry and couldn’t wait to take Lorderon, at lease something. But he is a perfect prince imo, cares for his subjects, and in one part even refuses a free sex romp: p. Also….in the culling she writes how he suffered killing each victim. I mean at least you could of written that little by little he was starting to enjoy the bloodlust or something. And the whole invincible thing was over played, I’ve had pets died even being my fault( see my goldfish getting overfed) and I sure as hell wouldn’t want to see him come back or make it a reason to become the lichking. But good book and worth the read if you like lore. But for me it wasted the opportunity to show exactly what happened apart from taunting and a few unwise decisions that made Arthas the Lichking.
Luisette May 16th 2009 11:58AM
Of course this is a matter of personal opinion, but I'm sure anyone would be FAR more upset that their horse died than a goldfish, especially if you had to put it out of misery yourself. You can replace a goldfish AND its nonexistent personality for 10 cents. A horse? Not so much. ;p
Laynne May 16th 2009 9:31AM
I'm in the middle of the book right now and I don't want it to end! I love it.
Zeldaguard May 16th 2009 9:38AM
SOMETHING THAT WOWINSIDER IS WRITING ABOUT IS HAPPENING WHERE I LIVE?!?! NO WAI!
perderedeus May 16th 2009 10:07AM
It's a good book. I agree with the earlier poster, however - Arthas is "too nice" while he is growing up. Very likeable. I suppose this was done to squeeze a little sympathy for him out of the reader (and for Varian Wrynn, whose hardship gets copious mention in the early chapters), but I feel it strengthens, rather than weakens, his character against the Lich King's haunting call.
Devon May 16th 2009 7:18PM
Just got back from the signing. Christie was super cool and a really nice person to talk too. All the stuff she got to do in order to write this book, and the others, made me super jealous.
jerl.wow May 17th 2009 3:19PM
wish i would have read this a bit sooner, haha, i live like 10 minutes from Loveland.