Not bad. A little limp-wristed with all the angst and "oh noes, I must have my music", but I tore through it fairly quickly.

 

I thought it was pretty awesome. Of course, Kvothe is the picture they put beside the term Gary Stu in the dictionary, and the alst three chapters I hated most, but its an awesome read.

 

This was Rothfuss' debut novel, and it is disgustingly good. If he continues on this level for the planned Kingkiller Trilogy. We will be talking about it as one of the greatest trilogies ever, and Rothfuss as one of the greatest authors ever.

It wasn't my favorite debut novel, though. That one belongs to Scott Lynch who wrote The Lies of Locke Lamora in the Gentleman Bastard Series.

 

Damn good book series, the only downside I can see is the parts not in the past.

 

QFT on both counts.

Any idea when the next one's being published ?

 

According to Amazon it will be released on April 7 which is the same day that Turn Coat gets released.

 

Thanks !
Nice to know I'll be having a good day on April 7.

 

I wouldn't count on that, actually. Last I heard Rothfuss was still editing the draft of the second book. That doesn't leave much time for it to go to print, get distributed... blah blah blah.

I'm holding out for April 7, but Amazon has been a let down in the past.

 

Very good start to a story. The one thing that makes me a little unsure is whether or not the whole thing will be in the past or if the final book will be in the present with the threat confronting the village they are in. Overall an excellent debut novel though.

 

It will at least partly be in the past, as he told dude that the story would take 3 days to tell

 

This is easily my favorite book at the moment. I've read it three times since I bought it a year and a half ago. I really hope it comes out the same day as Turn Coat, that way I only have to buy one copy of Turn Coat and can let my wife read it while I read some more effin' Kvothe.

I loved the music/theater aspect of it, actually. It was one of my favorite parts of the story. Yes, I'm eager for him to get on with the big stuff, but he's still a kid (and he killed his big lizard way more impressively than others, ahem).

His world and culture building is subtle and well done, and is especially notable with Bast and with his foreign friends at school. For a debut novel to be this good is amazing.

The magic (almost a science) is explained well, and if his ideas aren't on the bleeding edge of originality, they're at least executed superbly.

I even enjoyed the romance. Rothfuss has an exceptional way with words and I found myself taken aback at some of his descriptions.

And the opener has to go down as one of the best in fiction.

Yeah, I'm a fanboy. :/

 

I really liked this book. My mum actually bought it for me on a whim when she couldn't find the next Anita Blake book that I had asked her to buy for me. It's so much better then all the Anita Blake books put together. lol.

I really got into it and had to wrestle it off my dad when he started reading it.

I'm eagerly awaiting the next book.

 

Anya; The above is an example of my stabbin anomly at my keyboard. There is 300 times the literary value of Anita Blake in that one blurb of randomness, than i the entire AB series.

THE BIBLEis better than Anita Blake. Lets next time compare it to something readable.

 

^ Agreeed.

GAH! Locke Lamora, how I love that book. God--so---awesome.

The Name of the Wind, though; it's like one of those books that, while you're reading the run of the mill fantasy novel, you wish someone would write. And then you pick it up, and it floors you with how--damn---interesting everything is. Like, you'd think going in depth into this magic system could be dry, but it's not!

And I actually really liked how everything has sort of a material value to it, because Kvothe spends so much of his time penniless, that when he manages to scrape together some coins so that he can accomplish his next goal, you're like 'GO little buddy, GO!'. That's what partly made the music stuff so awesome--it turned into a way that he could support himself, and do it really well.

Kinda reminds me of in the Wheel of Time, where Rand pays for his way with his flute playing for a while. That part of the book always stuck with me.

 

It was a bit slow at times but I really did enjoy the story and am deffinatly looking forward to the sequel. Recomended read!

 

Thought I would mention that the new publication date for The Wise Man's Fear is March 1, 2011. Rothfuss added this to his blog on April 28th if you want to read it.

http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/

 

He's taking to long!

/whine