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Faxanadu on 02 February 2013
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
spurgeonryan said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

I'm reading "the name of the wind" at this moment.

Read it years ago. Turned out to be really good. His second book took forger because he is a perfectionist. So by the time I bought it I did not feel like reading it. Tell me why you think!

I'm about half way. It has a nice build-up untill now. The writer clearly put a lot of thought in it.

Dont know. It was ok. A bit too "superboyish" for me.



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Asriel on 04 February 2013

I caved and bought two more Murakami novels on my kindle (Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart).

Halfway through Dance Dance Dance and massively enjoying it, it's a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase (which I read last month and really enjoyed). Once Sputnik Sweetheart is out of the way, I'll swear I move onto a different author...

Is the Millenium Trilogy worth reading? How about Life of Pi? They're already on my kindle thanks to the daily sales.



Kantor on 04 February 2013
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.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 04 February 2013
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.



In the wilderness we go alone with our new knowledge and strength.

gergroy on 04 February 2013
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...



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 04 February 2013
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...

I suspected that much. It's true, his dialogue is pretty good. That's probably why i read 500 pages already.



In the wilderness we go alone with our new knowledge and strength.

Faxanadu on 04 February 2013
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.



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Marks on 04 February 2013

What's a book?



gergroy on 04 February 2013
Marks said:
What's a book?


I think you may be in the wrong thread...



haxxiy on 04 February 2013
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

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.


Rothfuss is a "gardener" writer. Meaning he writes the chapters without an outline, hoping it to play out by itself, and books written that way often fall prey to this, not to mention they take forever to release since you'll be endlessly revising previous pages when you got a hint of where things are going later on.

Particularly I don't quite like his books... more due to Kvothe being an annoying brat and I can't stand annoying characters than because of any plot issue. Anyways people tell me Rothfuss is good fantasy and you absolutely need to read it, so I forced myself to munch away the two books.