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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.
- Sales Rank: #749 in Books
- Brand: Rothfuss, Patrick
- Model: 3780856
- Published on: 2008-04-01
- Released on: 2008-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.53" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 722 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
Amazon.com's Best of the Year...So Far Pick for 2007: Harry Potter fans craving a new mind-blowing series should look no further than The Name of the Wind--the first book in a trilogy about an orphan boy who becomes a legend. Full of music, magic, love, and loss, Patrick Rothfuss's vivid and engaging debut fantasy knocked our socks off. --Daphne Durham
10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Patrick Rothfuss
Q: Were you always a fan of fantasy novels?
A: Always. My first non-picture books were the Narnia Chronicles. After that my mom gave me Ihe Hobbit and Dragonriders. I grew up reading about every fantasy and sci-fi book I could find. I used to go to the local bookstore and look at the paperbacks on the shelf. I read non-fantasy stuff too, of course. But fantasy is where my heart lies. Wait... Should that be "where my heart lays?" I always screw that up.
Q: Who are some of your favorite authors? Favorite books?
A: Hmmm.... How about I post that up as a list?
Q: What are you reading now?
A: Right now I'm reading Capacity, by Tony Balantyne. He was nominated for the Philip K Dick award this last year. I heard him read a piece of the first novel, Recursion, out at Norwescon. I picked it up and got pulled right in. Capacity is the second book in the series. Good writing and cool ideas. Everything I've like best.
Q: How did Kvothe's story come to you? Did you always plan on a trilogy?
A: This story started with Kvothe's character. I knew it was going to be about him from the very beginning. In some ways it's the simplest story possible: it's the story of a man's life. It's the myth of the Hero seen from backstage. It's about the exploration and revelation of a world, but it's also about Kvothe's desire to uncover the truth hidden underneath the stories in his world. The story is a lot of things, I guess. As you can tell, I'm not very good at describing it. I always tell people, "If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it." I didn't plan it as a trilogy though. I just wrote it and it got to be so long that it had to be broken up into pieces. There were three natural breaking points in the story.... Hence the Trilogy.
Q: What is next for our hero?
A: Hmm..... I don't really believe in spoilers. But I think it's safe to say that Kvothe grows up a little in the second book. He learns more about magic. He learns how to fight, gets tangled up in some court politics, and starts to figure unravel some of the mysteries of romance and relationships, which is really just magic of a different kind, in a way.
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The originality of Rothfuss's outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution. Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who's presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family's traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives—his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star. (Apr.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine
Fantasy readers-a notoriously discerning group-tend to dole out praise judiciously, which makes the reception of The Name of the Wind, the first volume in Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle, that much more remarkable. Critics are already throwing around comparisons to some of the biggest names in fantasy, including George R. R. Martin, Tad Williams, the recently deceased Robert Jordan, and even Tolkien. They praise Rothfuss's fresh take on the genre's conventions, particularly a shifting narrative that keeps the action moving. At nearly 700 pages, The Name of the Wind isn't meant to be knocked off in a weekend. But readers who pick up Rothfuss now-and, according to critics, that won't be a small number-can say they knew him back when.
Copyright � 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I wanted to love it...
By bigGIANTcircles
Some reliable sources I generally trust recommended and raved about this book. Unfortunately I was ultimately left more unsatisfied and irritated by the time I was finished, which was foreshadowed by those same feelings throughout the novel. I found the writing style ultimately not to my liking, which I'm sure is as subjective of a thing as one can say in writing, but I'll try to pin down my major gripes.
The story felt aimless, meandering, lacking an overall clear purpose. I couldn't reconcile the importance of he events in storyteller Kvothe's world and the purpose of young Kvothe's life. I wish I could explain this better.
Rothfuss loves to end his chapters with what seemed in the beginning like a clever quip to serve as a cliffhanger to entice further reading. Things were hinted at with seeming importance that teased of exciting events, possibly in the next chapter, possibly later in the book. Eventually I was dismayed to only be left with the underwhelming and repeated promise of a wolf that I never really saw. We see this often in tv series writing when watching what is later dreadfully apparent to be a filler episode where nothing really happens and you feel like the network is just stalling to maintain viewership and extend the duration of the series.
Far be it from me to feel comfortable saying this as a non-writer and casual reader (the internet brings the term Filthy Casual to mind) but the writing just felt very... amateur. Like the kind of story someone young and obviously very intelligent might attempt but ultimately lacking in experience and execution. I don't feel TOO bad about this, though. Think of the way most casual, non musicians can recognize the difference between a professionally produced album and one that isn't. You may not understand the techniques behind audio production, you might have no idea what a compressor does, or the importance of proper mixing; all you know is that the end product feels off. And that's the best analogy I can give to explain my opinion here.
I think I might have enjoyed this book more if I had read it long ago, either when I was a teenager or before I was spoiled by some of the mighty works of folks like Brandon Sanderson who in my opinion are stronger at maintaining a proper feel of urgency and coherency, and those are sadly the two things that I never felt throughout the duration of the book.
To Rothfuss's credit, he has come up with an intriguing, if not altogether exciting system of magic, and I did at least enjoy the atmosphere of the university that he established, I just wish it felt more exciting in the end.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Young Adult fantasy-too much protagonist as a bare chested young man & not much else. Entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying
By D. Nalepa
If you typically give most young adult fantasy 5 stars, you'll probably like this. It has elements which probably most teenagers can relate to in the "coming of age" genre. The story line overflows with "wise mentors". Sex is aluded to, but off-stage, so rates either a G or a PG (reviews of 2nd Book say he makes up for it there). I have no problems with 1-dimensional characterization but of course, that needs to be paid for with gripping action. If your idea of action is saving maidens-in-distress from fires, taming nymphs and saving villagers from animals as big as houses, but which have lived within a couple of miles of them for years without their knowledge (?!) then you'll like this. (Also, theres lots of forboding with nothing resolved). The main conflict is one which to me seems just plain stupid. I found it inexplicable that a character so good at reading people (at 10 years old? come on!) was incapable of reading people. "Does she like me or doesn't she?" gets old real fast-especially when "she" is THROWING herself at him. Pros: an interesting and well constructed world. Author isn't an inept storyteller. Has some realistic elements of teenage angst. Cons: conflicts are juvenile, adults are in the Harry Potter class (ie either stupid and vile or "wise mentors" or detached from reality ). Little actually happens to advance the plot. We get from a 12 year-old student (of acting, music and magic) to a 15 year-old kid who has a goal (revenge) and the intelligence to realize where he needs to be, but not the emotional intelligence (and executive function) to focus on what he needs to do. The first major flaw occurred when he is inexplicably not killed in the forest. He comes across the bad guys, and they essentially give him a pass?? The second was that the academic "Masters" didn't bother to ask:"Where did that candle come from?" Hard to believe in a world where a drop of blood or a single hair acts like a gps locator that there's no way to establish that said candle was from the front desk (avoiding the question about candles in libraries being AT the front desk a semi-public area!!). But this is just typical of modern juvenile literature. The second book sounds even worse, not rushing out to buy it (although I read all 722 pages of the 1st in one sitting).
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Why I didn't love The Name of the Wind (even though I really REALLY wanted to!)
By Farnoosh Brock
After finishing A Song of Ice and Fire Series, I went into GRRM withdrawals. I started Pillars of the Earth, and a few other books that held absolutely on appeal. I am sure I'm missing on a masterpiece but I can't seem to quench my hunger so I heard a lot about The Name of the Wind and my hubby had finished reading it and loved LOVEd it - they said it had more magic, and was far less gory and simpler than A Song of Ice & Fire (Game of Thrones book series for you TV lovers! :)), well, not only does it not compare, comparing books is unfair so I'll rank it as its own standalone piece of work.
I wanted to so much to love The Name of the Wind and to fall in love with Patrick Rothfuss but no matter what I did, I felt no spark, no love, and no magic (pun intended). I tried so much to love - or even LIKE - Kvothe but I couldn't. His smugness, his bravado talk whenever he found himself in trouble, his annoying narration rules for the Chronicler and his mean sarcasm towards Bast are just among a few things that turned me off to this character from the start and could not turn back his luck. As for the plot, I just didn't find it fascinating. It's slow, it spans across a handful of characters, it has boring women with no depth of character, and except for Professor Elodin, not a single fascinating character among the handful we had - Kvothe included. The story moves very slowly forward, if forward at all, and the attention to detail is often misplaced. I'd like details on the confusing parts, not every little aspect of a character moving, breathing, turning their neck or moving their gaze.
The magic is plain confusing - Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of Harry Potter and the little sparkles of magic GRRM affords us, but Patrick's magic was just confusing, and well, uninteresting. The names of people and places are inaccessible to my memory cells, there is no rhyme or reason to the made-up languages, the origins of names. I realize there does not need to be, it's just my personal preference.
So why the 3 stars if I disliked it so much? Well, it held my attention, it was a great first novel for any writer, and if for nothing else other than the hope of a satisfying novel, I finished it and I am glad I exposed myself to a new author. No plans on reading the second book, and I'd like to write this off as just *me* not being able to appreciate a Patrick Rothfuss - much like I'm not able to appreciate a Claude Monet - than a criticism of an accomplished writer's work.
Perhaps someday but I'm still as hungry for good voracious reading as when I finished A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
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