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Whistle Stopper - The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1)
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: DAW
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780756404741
ISBN: 0756404746
Label: DAW
Manufacturer: DAW
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: DAW
Studio: DAW
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Summary: A voracious reader, completely sated!
Comment: Without exaggeration or hyperbole, I can say that this is one of the finest books I have ever read. For masterfully crafted prose I would pit Rothfuss against any writer of contemporary literature, but this novel is distinctly fantasy.
I have been a reader of fantasy for about 20 years including the writing of GRRM, Lynch, Erikson, Keyes, Hobb, Bujold, Jordan, Feist, Wolfe, Eddings, Wurtz... I could go on. My point is that none of them surpassed the debut novel of Patrick Rothfuss. Buy this book!
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Summary: IF you need a new author to read Rothfuss is him!
Comment: Thank God for amazon's recomendations because they got me to try this new author and his first book was riveting... He brings to life a great world filled with mystery as well as believable characters... This book is a keeper. He has moved up onto my list of great authors such as Tolkien, David Gemmell, and L.E. Modeseitt Jr.
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Summary: Don't bother...
Comment: If you are looking for a Brandon Sanderson, Christopher Paolini, Middle Earth, or even Narnia, don't bother! This author seems obsessed with childish bawdiness to the point where this morning I just had to put it down. I mean, let's get past the potty humor and tell a story. With that said, I love a story that grips me right away and gets me interested in hearing what the rest of the book has to say. I tried and tried and just couldn't find Kvothe interesting. This one will go unfinished and go...somewhere other than in my collection. Probably won't be trying more from this author at the present time.
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Summary: I'm speechless
Comment: Wow ...
The Name of the Wind was incredible! Just plain incredible. I had heard of it from a friend that tens to like the same books as I do, I was complaining that to read anything REALLY good, I always have to go back and re-read my favorites. He suggested TNotW, I could hardly put it down. Then I find out that its the Author's FIRST book! I am now in total awe of this guy! Looking for something new? Tired of the same old, retelling of the standard good vs. evil fantasy plot? Read this book! I mean it, click right over there and order it! Do it now!!
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Summary: Better than Harry Potter and more addicitive than pistachios
Comment: Patrick Rothfuss is a masterful spinner of fantasy stories. Rothfuss, who was an undeclared collegian for the first 3 years of college, is an up and coming master of the swords and magic book genre. I think that the character Kvothe is written very really. I like how there is a supernatural element in the story of the Chandrians and as the character Bast who is one of the Chandrian. I also like how magic is described with tie-ins to modern science like saying that steel has more carbon in it than iron, but then Kvothe would agree with the blacksmith's apprentice saying that it had more lime in it to appear less educated and blend in more. I also liked the vivid description of the Arcanium and how there was a master of different arts like naming and sympathy bonds and Fishery where people fabricated items. The addition of sympathy bonds to the fantasy world will be great. I appreciated how in books like this one and the ones in the Eragon Cycle, the person's ability is derived from their own strength. This doesn't leave too many what if scenarios. In the Harry Potter series, magic is formed by thought, so what if some had muttered a word that would of just destroyed the world in a second? Another thumbs up, to how Patrick Rothfuss pays homage to basic fantasy, dragons or Draccus as the Chronicler would of said, who is like the scribe like character of the story. My personal favorite part of the book is when the villagers are recalling the legendary adventures of Kvothe with his many names, and he is sitting among them unknown to them. The most memorable part of the story is how the Chronicler met Kvothe, while getting attacked by the Scrael at the same time. The funniest part of the book is when a young Kvothe sees Abernathy's cart with the word Alements on a sign, not Aliments because Abernathy brews alcohol, which is a joke. Name of the Wind doesn't have these plot holes except from the part where he is a street urchin and the question is asked, why doesn't he help lift himself out of poverty with his magical abilities, the ones that he learned on the road from Abernathy?
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Editorial Reviews:
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The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.
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