The Name of the Wind

The Kingkiller Chronicle : day one

Hardcover, 662 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2007 by Daw Books, Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-7564-0407-9
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OCLC Number:
937783492
Goodreads:
186074

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4 stars (29 reviews)

"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend"--From publisher description.

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reviewed The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller chronicle : Day one)

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4 stars

"'Ye Gods,' Elodin sighed, disgusted. 'A bootlicker too. You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.'"

Many people, including Michael (my infallible source of amazing epic choices of books) have been telling me that this is a very good book. Circumstances conspired to make me wait, and with the hype dampened, I felt it an appropriate time to pick this up. I'm glad I decided eventually to read it, because it's turned out to be everything everyone promised.

"'If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two . . . We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully.'"

I started the book and was a little surprised not to be fully engrossed. The Scrale caught my interest, and there was evidently more to our illustrious many-named innkeeper than met the eye, but …

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Subjects

  • Magicians -- Fiction
  • Magic -- Fiction