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Also for all the people saying that Rothfuss should just let Kvothe be gay should delete their accounts if they really believe what a character is attracted to really matters. You people are the kind of intellectual cancer that is strangling literally culture with your psycho-obsessive ideas of sexuality. Shelves: favorites , masterpieces , owned-physical-books. In terms of plot overview, the book is simplistic enough. Kvothe will tell the entire chronicle of his life within three days and The Name of the Wind encompassed Day One of his storytelling.

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That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. Is it the characters? Trust me, they are extremely well-written. Kvothe is a memorable character and his narrative is wonderfully compelling to read.


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The Name of the Wind is his coming of age tale, covering his life from the time he was eight years old up to his fifteenth year. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

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Plus, the addition of empathizing side characters such as Bast, Simmone, Elodin, and Auri made the book even more intriguing. However, I have to say no, it's not the incredibly well-written characters that dazzled the most to me. Is it the world-building? The currency, mythology, legends, songs, and a unique magic system called Sympathy felt so real and believable to me; they enhanced the immersive and vivid nature of the narrative.

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What is it then, the action? The narration is extremely engaging and also intense in some places, but there are—approximately—only twenty pages of battle scenes in total. It's music: the part that captivated me more than anything else in the book was its depiction of music. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours.

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Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.


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No matter what the genre we read, we are all obsessed with music. I could see the way the fingers and strings dance to form the music; I could hear the audience in the tavern cheering when Kvothe played the lute vigorously; I could hear the silence of the crowd when Kvothe stopped playing and most of all, I could feel the emotions oozing out of the audience through the music, music that was created specifically through words and letters.

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But Rothfuss managed to do it. How did he achieve the superb balance for all those factors? Superlative prose. Patrick Rothfuss is a master craftsman with words and his prose deserves only the highest of praise from me. There is a myriad of quotable or should I say Kvothable statements and phrases throughout the story that made me feel like writing them all down in my notebook, and yes I did.

As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. By the end of this book, I realized The Name of the Wind has immersed me in an intricate role-play situation. Through reading this book, I became more than myself.

My name is Kvothe, you may have heard of me. Now, I encourage you to read my story. Shelves: favourite , fantasy , This is why I love fantasy so much. After a recent string of okay fantasy novels, a couple of good ones but nothing to get really excited about, I've rediscovered my passion thanks to this book. I'm so impressed, and so in love, I can't begin to describe it.

But I can try to give you a feel for the book, if I can figure out where to start and how to do justice to this masterpiece. Kvothe pronounced like "Quothe" is a world-renowned figure of mystery with a disreputable reputation - a hero or a This is why I love fantasy so much. Kvothe pronounced like "Quothe" is a world-renowned figure of mystery with a disreputable reputation - a hero or a demon depending on which stories you hear.

The real man has hidden himself away at an inn in the middle of nowhere with his apprentice Bast - we know not why - and it's not until the Chronicler discovers him there that he shows any interest in reliving his past life. Insisting that his story will take three days to tell, and that the famous chronicler must write it down exactly as he tells it, he begins to share his story: a child genius growing up with his parents' troupe, performing plays and tricks across the land while being taught "sympathy" magic , history, chemistry etc.

It's not until he's fifteen that he makes it to the University, and is accepted, though he's three years younger than is usual. Abenthy has taught him well, and combined with his impressive memory, natural talent, quick intelligence and training, he moves quickly up the ranks of the university. There are many adventures and mishaps along the way, and while some plotlines come to a tidy end at the close of this novel, over-arching plotlines and themes have been given a solid foundation to continue on into the next books.

It took a surprisingly long time for me to realise the connection between the number of days he will take to tell his story, and that this is "Day One" in the trilogy - it's told over the course of the first day. The only thing is, he's young yet Chronicler judges him to be about 25, though at times he looks infintely older , and there are things happening in "real time" that intrude upon the story, that will need to be resolved I think - so while I have every confidence Rothfuss has excellent control over his creation, I would love more than three books : I can't think of the last time I was this impressed by any story, let alone a fantasy novel.

I won't compare it to bloody George R.

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Martin like everyone else is doing because I don't see that they have anything in common, really - one is a work of pure genius and the other is utter crap. Comparing them only heightens my dislike of A Game of Thrones. In truth, it's simply a marketing strategy to compare new books to ones that are already really popular, in order to draw in a well-established audience.

This is an epic fantasy - epic in scope - but it's also a bildungsroman , a story of a person's life, a life journey including the quiet moments , which I love.

The character development is ludicrously good. The world-building is solid, believable and original - there're enough new elements to keep your interest, but not so many that you get confused and overwhelmed: a perfect balance. The design of "sympathy" is original and unique, and makes so much sense that I'm half-surprised it doesn't really work. It's complicated enough to not be trite, but one basic premise is the connection between things, the sympathy they have with each other - if you broke a branch in two, the two halves would still have a connection, like sharing the exact same DNA, and so if you control one half you affect the other half.

Same with two pennies of the same metal, so that, if you were holding one and someone holding the other and they worked a "binding" on their half, and, say, lifted it in the air, then your penny would also lift. It's fabulous! It's an intellectual kind of magic, not a "wave the wand" type. It takes knowledge, concentration and effort, so in effect, anyone could learn. As for the characters and their growth, I am so impressed and so in love I will no doubt do a bad job of expressing it. While Kvothe's story is told in his voice, first person, the present day interludes are told in third person omniscient, but usually from certain characters' points of view.

You get a mix of other people's impressions of characters, and a gentle showing that tells us even more. The genius is in how Kvothe is portrayed: while telling the story, himself as a young boy, already having experienced tragedy and sorrow and despair, and already feeling the weight of worldly concerns, but still with a lot to learn, comes across strongly.

This is counter-balanced with Kvothe as a man, having been through all that and more and had it shape him into something subtly different, yet still very much the same person. If it had been written poorly, there would have been discord between the two Kvothes, but there isn't. He has so much charisma, and is such a complex sort, that I really felt for him.

I may even have a bit of crush, actually. He's not good or evil, but he's suffering from a conscience: he's very human, and lonely, despite the friendship of Bast. At the same time, he's a god-like figure, an amazing musician, a skilled fighter, and a powerful magician. One moment he's commanding and chillingly masterful, the next he's doing Bast's bidding and fetching food and cutting wood for others. I expect it's his contradictions and complexities that draw me to him. The writing style is smooth, the pacing just right though the first few chapters take a while to get you into the story, you still need to read them closely because there're a lot of details in them , and the prose isn't cluttered with boring, irrelevant descriptions or pointless details.

It's a fat book and a long story, but it flies by.