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Tarfumes.com - The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1)
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: DAW
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780756404741
ISBN: 0756404746
Label: DAW
Manufacturer: DAW
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: DAW
Studio: DAW
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Summary: Splendid
Comment: Let me just say that this book is a work of genius. It is really all you need to entertain yourself for a while. The story is so good and just keeps getting better as you read, through all 700 pages. At the end I literally felt like I wanted to read about 2000 pages more of it. And for anyone who starts reading now, you don't have very long to wait for the second book. Believe me, you WILL be waiting for the second book.
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Summary: Sucked me right in from the start, and never let me go
Comment: First a word on length. The Name of the Wind, in case you didn't notice, is over 700 pages long. That might sound overly long or daunting, but it actually works very well for this book. I took it with me on vacation thinking that I would never read a book that long from front to back in about a week's time. Boy was I wrong!
Granted, I'm probably a faster reader than most, but this book is a quick read. The chapters are short, which helps pull you through at a good clip. There's lots of action and dialog without a great deal of internal dialog or exposition to slow things down. As a reader I found myself constantly wondering what was coming next and looking forward to finding out.
The Name of the Wind actually represents two stories. There is a third person current events type of story which wraps around a first person narrative. The Kingkiller Chronicle part is the latter story told by one of the characters introduced in the former. That's where the Day 1 thing comes from - it's the first day of a multiday telling, and focuses on that character's youth to latter teen years.
Basically, you have two parallel tales working to keep you engaged. I, for one, think it's been fantastically done through this point, and I'm eager to get on to the next book in the set. I find myself missing the characters and the world since finishing this first one. I can't think of any book I've read in a long time that has sucked me in like this.
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Summary: good but not great
Comment: The beginning of this book is wonderful. I was drawn immediately to the main characters, the writing is very good, and the story engaging. The book starts in the present and then focuses on Kvothe's early years with his family. The evil force (this is fantasy after all, there has to be a dark side) are the Chandrian, a group of demonic beings with a hidden agenda. The Chandrian are described so well you can feel their malevolence.
Once Kvothe gets to the university, the book drags. There is only so much I can read about the mysterious love of Kvothe's life. Kvothe is fascinated by her, but the author's portrayal of Denna reads more like an adolescent's fantasy woman than an actual person. She is wooden, unsympatheric and uninteresting. Fortunately, towards the end, the story picks up again and I will certainly read the next one. Maybe Mr. Rothfuss will kill Denna off and focus on the adventures and the evil Chandrian that he described so well.
One other note. This book is not as complex and well written as the Song of Ice and Fire series, but it is not as bleak either. Rothfuss is like a $20 bottle of wine, where Martin is a single malt scotch.
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Summary: Great book - boring parts
Comment: If ever i wrote a book, if I was very tallented, if I was very lucky, it would be something like this one.
It has to be said that Rothfuss takes sometimes to much time on boring parts of the story or is to descriptive.
This is all (and it is a lot, the book could come down from 661 pages to 450-500) that stands bettween it and a masterpiece.
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Summary: The Past is not Behind
Comment: In the first book of The Kingkiller Chronicles we meet Kvothe, a powerful magician who ashamed of his past has retired to run an inn at the edge of his civilized world. With the help of an assistant who is more than he seems, he attends to the simple people of the village hoping to be left alone.
But an unknown evil from the outside world is advancing towards this remote place and, willingly or not, he must confront it.
And while he does, we are introduced to his early life as a story he tells to a chronicler who has come to the village looking for him.
Kvothe's story of his early years full of adventure and heartbreak resonates with the reader. He may be a very talented musician and fearless hero but he is also a very lost child. Left alone in the world after an event that will shape his future forever, he must learn how to survive on his own. From feral child to impoverish student, he struggles to keep his dignity, hoping to learn the name of the wind that, he believes, will introduce him to a world of power he guesses must exist beyond the known world.
The Name of the Wind is an engaging story with outcast characters you will fall in love with despite, or maybe because, their flaws. Highly recommendable.
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