Best book! | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)

Good Read | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) | Patrick Rothfuss

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	• The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) Patrick Rothfuss DAW, 2008 - 736 pages average customer review:based on 653 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Amazing Book

Name of the Wind transcends the Fantasy genre even as it redefines it. Patrick Rothfuss and George RR Martin are the premiere Fantasy authors of our time. That this is Rothfusses first novel only makes it more remarkable.

Best book!

I have read this book and decided that this is the most well written, thought out, put together, dramatic, easy to follow, interesting book I have read in a while. I was a great fan of the Night Angel Trilogy and I still am, yet this book takes precedence over that trilogy! Hand down the best book I have read, did I mention that already? Sorry...
Pat Rothfuss has really done a service with this book! I met him at a book signing recently and he is a very interesting, somewhat eccetric person. He has a style all his own really!
I cant wait for the next books to release! But good things come to those who wait, and I have absolute faith that the time taken to perfect his next novel will be a great treat for us all!
In the meantime, I plan to just re read this book! :-)

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Good Read

Very good book. You don't even have to be a fantasy fanatic to love this book. Just plain good writing.

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One for the Shelf...

I met Patrick at an ANIME convention. I was told by a friend of mine to get a book signed for her. I did so- Pat was nice and all and since I had some time to kill- I sat down and started reading.

1st of all, I am a HUGE fantasy novel reader- You name it- I've read it. Tad Williams, George R. R. Martin, Eddings, blablablah... So without knowing much about this author- I truly didn't think that a guy from central Wisconsin, from where I lived- could write a book that was up to my standards.

But I was wrong... I am not that far into the book- finals are here and I've no time for sleeping much less pleasure reading. But I can tell that this is going to be a great book. It has this turning and twisting play on words- creative sentence structures, nothing blathering or boring. I can't wait to have an afternoon free so I can keep turning the pages. A lot of fantasy novels these days seem to be reaping on "what works well" in older, more famous series and titles. This one just FEELS newer and creative with more twists while still sticking to the classic fantasy world that I wish I could live in every day of my life since I was in 5th grade.

Lets just say that my friend MIGHT not get her signed copy when she comes to claim it from me in a couple weeks...

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How do you pitch this book?

The Name of the Wind has all of the elements of fantasy, and yet still manages to be a book that rises above the rest. I picked it up at Powell's in Portland Oregon; I was on my way to Cannon Beach to spend my Thanksgiving weekend in front of a crackling fire, and spectacular views. At the time, it was just another paperback to help me relax through the weekend. It took awhile for it to sink in. I think,by about chapter 7, I had begun to realize the true genius of the author.

At once it feels like one of those first term Intellectual Heritage classes I had to sit through in college. And in some ways it is, it approaches the Fantasy Genre with a firm understanding of Myth. A world has been built with an understanding of Economics, of Culture, of Anthropology. Yet, unlike previous offerings (Tolkien comes to mind), the pacing is not lost to explain these things. We find out about the world as it become necessary to understand the story, and as the Characters touch each part, the world begins to be filled in.

The characters are the best part of this story. Each one having a depth and a humanity rarely seen since C.S. Lewis. Kvothe is a multifaceted human being. He is at once a legend, and despite that a Myth. His story is masterfully told, and the details of his life, leave us with a deeper connection with him and his struggles. It is Kvothe's Coming of Age story with all of its trappings, and yet one cannot help but sense there will be something more. The women are written in a way that I have not seen in Fantasy: Complicated, real, strong, and unknowable; human. In this one respect, Patrick Rothfuss abandons all of the fantasy genre's traditions. In all of this, he writes with a prose that is like a finely polished river stone in a cold mountain stream. It was a pleasure to read this book.

I look forward to the sequel, but not in the same way I look forward to most sequels. Of course I want to find out what happens next, but for most books, that is all I care about. I plan to savior the next book as I did this one. I read it once; it took a 4 days. I read it a second time; it took 2 weeks. I savored it, read to a stopping point and put it down. I plan to do the same with the next. I look forward to next book for two reasons: first, I want to find out what happens, and second, I like reading excellently crafted stories told by master stories tellers with magnificent prose. I am aware that it takes time to do the latter, and so I am willing to wait for as long as it takes. When it comes out I might not even read it the same day. (as I do with most anticipated squeals) I might wait for my next trip back to Cannon Beach with my crackling fire and spectacular views to accompany a spectacular book: 5 stars

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