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| The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Publisher: DAW
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (423 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6467
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 2.1
ISBN: 0756404746
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780756404741
ASIN: 0756404746
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Unraveling a story that is beautiful, mythic and dark. This May 30, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
With THE NAME OF THE WIND, Patrick Rothfuss has propelled himself instantly into the fantasy elite, unraveling a story that is beautiful, mythic and dark. This is the debut fantasy work that all writers wish was theirs and that all readers wish had a quicker follow-up.br /br /Kote is the owner and operator of a tavern residing in a town that is slowly becoming obsolete, where business is practically nonexistent. His nightly endeavor is to serve spirits and stew to the same handful of people while stories and legends are shared. When one of the townsfolk comes into the tavern bearing the corpse of a Scraeling, a spider creature with legs like razors, he begins to fear the worst.br /br /Kote, who is far more than a simple tavern owner, holds a secret that he doesn't want revealed. However, his true identity has been figured out by a biographer who discovers that Kote is actually Kvothe (pronounced "Quothe"), a notorious magician who is praised as a hero and likewise reviled as a villain all across the world. And presumed to have been long dead.br /br /Now found out, Kvothe tells the biographer everything --- about his life as a young boy with a traveling troupe of players, living as a feral child on the streets of the faraway port city of Tarbean, and his education at the legendary school of magic.br /br /Kvothe's goal is simple: to discover the secret magic of naming but also to delve into the mysteries of the Chandrian demons who were responsible for the murder of his parents.br /br /Rothfuss has an exceptional grasp of his story. While this is no streamlined A to B telling, the novel hones in on details yet never does so at the expense of propelling the story forward. It seems that every item mentioned bears weight to the tale and shares in its support --- so much so that to extract them would collapse the work in on itself. His language is simple, and he doesn't flaunt a vast vocabulary, but he has a spectacular way with the turn of a phrase that sets the scene vividly in your mind.br /br /The story itself may contain some cliches common to the fantasy genre, but the author provides just enough tweaks to make them both comfortably familiar and strikingly new. There are very few portions of the story that seem too standard or found too often in other tales. For the most part, the work is vibrant and exciting.br /br /As a character, Kvothe is outstanding. He is dark, brooding and intelligent to no end. Sometimes it may seem that he knows far too much, but then again he is a student from the most legendary magic school in the world. His retelling of his life is gripping and told with a true storyteller's voice.br /br /THE NAME OF THE WIND is the mountaintop for fantasy work so far this year. All other novels, especially first ones, will have an extremely difficult time in finding a way out of the shadow of this extraordinary tome. Rothfuss has sent up major flares that will serve as a warning to the big names like Martin, Goodkind and Jordan. Whether you are a reader of fantasy or simply a lover of a great story, you owe it to yourself to take up THE NAME OF THE WIND and spend some time with brilliance.br /br / --- Reviewed by Stephen Hubbardbr /
 Disappointing May 28, 2007
21 out of 58 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very disappointing after all the hype I'd read. It's pretty much cookie cutter fantasy. Young orphan making his way in the world. Check. School of magic. Check. A girl. Check. A dragon. Check. *Ahem* Yawn.br /It starts off pretty decently and then goes into a book long flashback that's mostly slow and tedious. (I'm sure the book would be about 50 pages shorter if the author skipped over all the meals described in detail.) There's not much action or adventure in the flashback coming of age story, and not much new to add to the world of fantasy. Better than Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan or Mercedes Lackey, but not up to par with Steven Erickson, James Barclay, Scott Lynch or George R.R. Martin.
One of the best traditional fantasy books I've read in a while. May 27, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am looking forward to the next installment in this series. This one caught me and kept me on the hook from cover to cover. Kvothe and his story brought back echoes of Earthsea and Sparrowhawk for me while remaining unique and interesting. If you have read LeGuin's Earthsea books, you can't help but be reminded of them as you make your way through this story.br /br /The bottom line is that this book is well worth the read. I am very happy to have stumbled over this one in Amazon's reccomendations for me.
A story worth a thousand books... May 24, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Name of the Wind is poetic in is writing, sweeping in is vision and truly devoted to its characters. It's a little slow in the beginning, but if you let it, the slow methodical pace will reach out and wrap itself around you and will not let go until the last page is turned. br /br /Its wonderful to read a story that does not cling to the "fantasy stereotypes" or if it does take on an aspect of them, it does not invoke the feelings that usually accompany such drivel. For example, even though the main character is a youthful orphan he does not inspire the "ye gods, not another callow youth" feeling, instead he makes you want to weep for his failures and smile as he finds exceptionally clever ways to piss off authority. br /br / I absolutely love the fact that in this first story there is no real antagonist except life itself and the hardship that come by simply being human. The Name of the Wind is a breath of fresh air and I am so happy that I stumbled across it. br /
A beautiful book May 24, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
And very, very few books are beautiful! I wish I'd written it.
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