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[Faxanadu]

gergroy said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Kantor said:

spurgeonryan said:
What is the main protagonist name? Kvost? Most fantasy genres have people who seem to have a horse shoe up der ass and be invincible.

Kvothe.

I can see why people get annoyed at the whole "look at me I'm so good at everything" rubbish, but I think it's actually quite refreshing to have someone who is genuinely brilliant at everything and just stuck in a shitty situation where he still can't really succeed despite his clear talent. It's a nice irony.

Plus, he seems to be preparing for a huge fall in book 3, if the first chapters of the first book are anything to go by.

I'm on page 500 of the first book, and i must say the story isn't moving along. In the first chapters, like you wrote, the hinted to far more than this. It's at least a trilogy, but still there isn't a main villan or some hint of a big plot at page 500.

It's okay at this point. Not great, i'm afraid. Unless the last 200 pages are better, i'm not sure if i'm reading the sequel.

I absolutely love these books.  And no, there isn't some big main villain other than perhaps the chandrian and ambrose.  However, the thing that catches me in these books is the dialogue.  The conversations and philosiphical discussions are amazing.  I usually don't go for framed narratives as they are usually to revealing in nature but Rothfus has done a great job of hooking with his approach instead of revealing. 

By far the best character in the series so far is master Elodin.  Every time he turns up you know you are in for  a good chuckle.  

The only problem with the series that I can see is that I have a hard time seeing how he can possibly wrap things up in one more book.  Kvoth is obviously being set up for a big fall as the first book hints, but I just can't see how the third book can have the fall and wrap up the stories in the past and present.  Unless Rothfus is setting up a second trilogy after the first...

The best framed narrative is Hyperion.