The Name of the Wind

This book had a very slow start, almost to the point where I gave up on it. The narrator was tough to get used to as well, but once I got used to him, I felt he did a good job. Good story. Will pick up the second book and eventually the third book, when it comes out.

So sexist.

Name of the Wind should be counted as a masterpiece. I know we're all waiting for the final book but what we have of Kvothe story so far as moved many of us especially with the fantastic writing for Rothfuss. Love that there's both a soft and hard magic system. I am also biased being a fellow redhead.

The stale sexism woven throughout the narrative & depiction of the women was exhausting.

The main character was insufferable with a narcissistic superiority complex. Ultimate wish-fulfilment fantasy.

I wish I could forget it so I can read it again for the first time. The book that got everything right.

PS: I will just leave these here:

- "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite."

- "Famine and plague were everywhere, and in some places there was such despair that mothers could no longer muster enough hope to give their children names"

- "More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere"

- "The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up"

- "She disappeared back into the crowd, a wonderful collection of gently moving curves"

This was a recent book club book, and one I read years ago. It has always stuck with me as one of the greatest modern fantasies. It holds up just as much now as it did in the past. The scene where Kvothe attempts to earn his pipes has always stuck out as one of my favorite scenes in any book.

The story is excellent. The characters are great. The magic is unique enough and very logical which I always appreciate. I will say, it does get overly annoying and obnoxious with Kvothe and his inability to talk to or understand ladies. he is 15 or 16 yes, but he acts like he is still 9 or 10. It is so bad it sticks out and draws me out of the book because it is so heavy handed. Other than that the book is good.

This is well worth reading, but Rothless doesn't seem to have any interest in finishing the series. That hurts each book for me. We enter into a unwritten social contract, us the readers and the author. We are always willing to wait for the next book, but some authors don't seem to want to hold up their end. Is a decade too long to wait for a book that the author said was finished when the first was published? I think so, and getting angry at fans who show frustration isn't good either.

It is a good book, and a really good story. It is enjoyable, but there is no conclusion to any of it in the near future, maybe ever so I don't even know how to rate it. Great yes, but incomplete, and maybe incomplete forever.

4.75⭐

It took me three tries to start reading this book, but after I got a couple chapters in I couldn't put it down. The framework of the story, Kvothe telling his story as a scribe transcribes it, allows Rothfuss to do a lot of foreshadowing which along with engaging characters and events made me eager to keep reading and figure out the mysteries alluded to. It's so engaging that I didn't even notice till after I finished that the entire premise of the story is just a combination of two of the biggest fantasy cliches; the orphan and the student.

I've been wanting to read this for years and haven't found it until I looked it up at my local library system. It was well worth the long wait. Such a good story and so well written. Made me realize why I enjoy fantasy!