For the Fantasy Dorks
I'm really big into Martin's Game of Thrones and Jordan's Wheel of Time stuff. As a teen, I read through the majority of the pulp out there (Forgotten Realms, Salvatore, Eddings, Fiest, etc...).
Rothfuss' stuff is probably the most well written and creative stuff out right now. He's taking FOREVER, but it's simply brilliant. He blows away Sanderson's Mistborn novels. Sanderson is creative, but he's a pretty poor writer. His new series has a lot of promise, but it's almost like he finished the complete butchering of Jordan's world and decided that he wanted to write something more grand. You could cut 700 pages out of The Way of Kings and it would be pretty intriguing. Instead, it's bloated with way too much about bridge runs and pseudo angst.
Rothfuss is wildly creative and has a great style when it comes to prose. He is exactly like Martin in that, except he's more into the imaginary world stuff. I cannot recommend it enough. Read Mistborn when you need filler, read The Name of the Wind when you want to be blown away.