The Name of the Wind

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• The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle 1), by Patrick Rothfuss

  Home Contact us Posts Comments There’s probably never been a more difficult time to make your fantasy debut than right now: with an array of writers forging off in new and interesting directions, and others working along more classical lines in the b ... (read full critics)

  bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Book Review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

  A man walks into an inn – let’s call it the Waystone Inn – and he sees its owner behind the bar – let’s call him Kote . Kote is a quiet man who keeps to himself, full of lines on his face and scars in his body; He looks old but he is not yet thirty. ... (read full critics)

  thebooksmugglers published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

12 Reviews

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  Biography of a legend

  This is the best book I've read in a long time. At first I was put off by the main character. You've seen him before in other books: the hero/magician/king/etc. who gave up a life of glory/power to hide from his past. But as soon as he began to tell his story, I began to like the guy, who was quic ... (continue)

  This is the best book I've read in a long time. At first I was put off by the main character. You've seen him before in other books: the hero/magician/king/etc. who gave up a life of glory/power to hide from his past. But as soon as he began to tell his story, I began to like the guy, who was quick to admit his own faults in retrospect, and who is being changed in the now by the retelling of his own story. By halfway through, I was stealing moments to read a few more pages, and staying up past my bedtime every night until it was done.

  To those interested in this book, be aware that this is the first in a series of books. I don't know how many there will be, but I can see three or four easily. At the end of this book, the main character is still young (late teens/early twenties?), and even after he is done telling his life story, up until the "present day," there is the plot line occuring "now" to contend with too.

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  KyotoCutie said on Aug 21, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  I found quite hard to believe many readers have talked about this book as the best they've ever read...
  I must say this surely was a pleasant reading and I'm also looking forward for the sequel, but I had the idea that this book resembled too much "Oliver Twist" in the first part and "Harry Potter" ... (continue)

  I found quite hard to believe many readers have talked about this book as the best they've ever read...
  I must say this surely was a pleasant reading and I'm also looking forward for the sequel, but I had the idea that this book resembled too much "Oliver Twist" in the first part and "Harry Potter" in the second...
  I do hope the second work of this author to have a footprint of his own

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  Truthkeeper said on Oct 31, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I found this book to be a realistic, fantastic novel. What I mean is that it uses more realistic explanations to explain the more fantastical parts of the book. As a science major, I found this to be very delightful and interesting.

  On top of that, this book has a wonderful main character wh ... (continue)

  I found this book to be a realistic, fantastic novel. What I mean is that it uses more realistic explanations to explain the more fantastical parts of the book. As a science major, I found this to be very delightful and interesting.

  On top of that, this book has a wonderful main character who you can really feel for and love and the story itself will have you waiting for more.

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  hypnotic_shower said on Feb 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  It has prity nice moments when you are feeling the history (I got addicted at some points) but it lacks something. It's an unresolved book.

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  Julián G. said on May 6, 2012 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  Non il classico fantasy..la storia è abbastanza originale, ma ciò che è veramente degno di nota (e non che non lo sia la storia, eh!! ) è lo stile... che altro dirvi... ecco la prima pagina!

  ” The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

  The most obvious part was a hollow, ... (continue)

  Non il classico fantasy..la storia è abbastanza originale, ma ciò che è veramente degno di nota (e non che non lo sia la storia, eh!! ) è lo stile... che altro dirvi... ecco la prima pagina!

  ” The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

  The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed trough the trees, set the inn’s sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves. If there had been a crowd, even a handful of men inside the inn, they would have filled the silence with coversation and laughter, the clatter and clamour one expects from a drinking house during the dark hours of the night. If there had been music…but no, of curse there was no music. In fact there were none of these things, and so the silence remained.

  Inside the Waystone a pair of men huddled at one corner of the bar. they drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing these they added a small, sullen silenceto the lager, hollow one. it made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.

  The third silence was not an easy thing to notice. If you listened for an hour, you might begin to feel it in the wooden floor underfoot and in the rough, splintering barrels behind the bar. It was in the weight of the black stone heart that held the heat of a long-dead fire. It was in the slow back and forth of a white linen cloth rubbing along the grain of the bar. and it was in the hands of the man who stood there, polishing a strech of mahogany that already gleamed in the lamplight.

  The man had true-red hair, red as flame. his eyes was dark and distant, and he moved with the subtle certainty that comes from knowing many things.

  The Waystone was is, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wapping the other inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

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  Sianna said on Jul 31, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Second read through, before The Wise Man's Fear. A better read the second time, can pick out the little clues that Pat placed for the next two books.

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  AlteredSoul said on Mar 4, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 662 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 075640407X
• ISBN-13: 9780756404079
• Publisher: DAW Hardcover
• Pub date: Mar 27, 2007
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 387 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
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