Like a building block | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)

Not for everyone but very enjoyable | 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 542 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Patrick Rothfuss is the man

I don't normally write reviews, this is actually my first, but I loved this book THAT much and seeing people give it one star here really pissed me off. You ever watch a really great movie with your friends and then the minute it's over, you just can't wait to talk about it, only to have them say something like "eh, it was ok"?? Doesn't it make you want to smack some sense back into them? That's pretty much how I feel now. What is there not to like about the book? It's exceptionally well-written, has characters so mesmerizing I can practically picture them and really feel what they feel, and it leaves you begging for more. Don't get me wrong, if you're expecting some Warhammer 40,000 type of non-stop,brutal action, then this is probably not your cup of tea! The more mature readers couldn't have picked up a better book. I even regularly check the author's website for details on when book 2 is coming out, and I don't do that for any other authors... Martin, Sanderson, not even the late, great Jordan!!

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Like a building block

It took a few pages for me to get into the book, taking days to get back to it to read it even. I finished Book 1 soon enough and was dismayed that Book 2 is not yet published. I looked up the author's website. It stated that his parents taught him to read and to build. And that was my impression of his book as a whole - a very sturdy building block for the trilogy, and the block itself made of a series of heavy building blocks built slowly but surely, one at a time, solid and heavy (unmoving in the wind, certainly), but each of them interesting and giving a new facet to the block as a whole. Each new thing you learn about the character, each new chapter that introduces another event to Kvothe's life, occupies a good portion of your attention prior to moving on to the next chapter. It's a bit difficult for me to explain except using this visual image - very different from the impression I got from books like "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," where you found yourself flitting through fantasies like a dancer, just floating in and out of fantastic stories, confused about which part reality stays. I am eagerly waiting for Book 2 to come out, to find out what happens to our Kvothe in present and Kvothe from the past. As a side note, I should never get a book in a trilogy when the remaining parts remain unpublished. The wait will just about kill me.

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Not for everyone but very enjoyable

I thouroughly enjoyed this book but I have to give fair warnings to other potential readers. It is long, it is part of a trilogy and the author is very slow coming out with the other 2 books. I also think this is book is for the older readers out there.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. The characters are very well crafted and the story is very engaging. I give kudos to the author; I do not enjoy third person narative stories yet I enjoyed this one.

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Not the best read this summer, but good

Patrick Rothfuss is an exceptional fantasy writter, however, Kingkiller Chronicles Day 1 is slow and not to the point. Much of the story covers the main character's childhood and teen years without much excitement. The main plot has close to no progression until the final chapters leaving the reader wondering if the previous 600 pages were absolutely necessary. If Day 2 was already published this might not be so bad considering we could just pick up where the story gets entertaining, but now that we must wait for book 2 I just might put this on the bookshelf and forget about the series.

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The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.

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