The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss REVIEW

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[maxwellmcclure]

I am really digging your reviewing style. I have been getting into “book tube” and there are a lot of fluffy reviewers. Yours are very well thought out and stated. Great book. Great take on it.

[GeorgeMillerUSA]

Please do books you want to read in 2020.

[claudiaferreira]

I read and loved the Name of the Wind. The Wise Man's Fear almost doubles it in size and is all about storytelling, there's little closure, there's plenty of stuff that could be kept out, but it was a pleasure to read, it looks like Rothfuss got a bit lost. When the Name of the Wind was advertised Rothfuss said he had three volumes delineated, I awaited the third volume for years, now I think this will end up to be the unfinished Kingkiller Chronicles. I don't believe Patrick Rothfuss will ever write the third part!

[lifesabeach]

I really liked the first two books, but I'm going to have to re-read them before reading #3 because it has been so long

[socratesandstorybooks]

Ok but if you keep in mind how Kvothe turns out as an adult you can see that Rothfuss actually wrote this book as a criticism of the "chosen one" trope. This is more evident in book 2 but its still there.

Awesome review, as always. Second book came out in 2011 and I still haven't read anything as great.

[bigfat]

I know you do not have enough free time at all for it, but the Malazan series is incredible and epic in everyway. It has really beautiful prose and some intensely deep and complicated reflections on various aspects of life.

[nihad-m]

I find it very hard to find great fantasy novels with beautiful prose and after I finished the two published books in this series I was craving more; that is when I found Guy Gavriel Kay. I would highly recommend Under Heaven by him. Inspired by the Tang Dynasty of China( which is unusual for a fantasy book) with beautiful writing, great characters and extremely quotable lines.

[ambroseallen]

Great review. I heard you mention Tolkien’s work. Would love to see you review The Lord of the Rings

[jakobjohnson]

Ok, so I totally agree with everything you've said! I binge-read the novel and Wise Man's Fear, and then re-read them as a freshman in college. They're just so good! My main point of contention with Rothfuss is essentially what you pointed out at the end of the video- there's no closure in either of the novels, and at this point I've been waiting for four years for the third one, which has dramatically increased my curiosity about what comes next. It's hard for me to believe that some people have been waiting nine years for the third book to come out...absolutely crazy. I'm also a big reader of post-modernist fiction, so I don't necessarily mind open ended stories, but what has been grinding on my capacity to be curious is the promise of some form of closure with the lack of that closure ever being produced. It's quite a paradoxical feeling. For example, in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, the ending left me with more questions than answers and a desire to read more of her works, however the questions I was left with didn't bother me, but intrigued me because that was the nature of the novel. Whereas with The Kingkiller Chronicles, I know that there's some event (or series of events) that's going to occur that will make Kvothe the way he is when he tells the story, and the anticipation of that event for the last four years is what has been driving me insane! Sorry, totally went on a rant. Love your channel btw, your videos have made me confident in my desire to pursue a PhD in postmodernist literature! Thank you!

[THFLCNx]

As a rule, I don't really read fantasy, but I've heard good things about The Name of the Wind. I don't like how pretty much every fantasy book can't just be its own self-contained thing; there's always got to be a series or at least a trilogy. I guess I can thank Tolkien for laying that template...

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[JozefLewitzky]

Rothfuss says to pronounce Kvothe any way you want - except that the 'e' is most certainly silent. :P [its Quoth if you want the easy way, Kuh-vohth the hard way, the 'v' is said very quickly / near silently]

[Robeeh]

Looking forward to reading this, thank you 👍

[EvangelineSK]

Great review, thank you a lot :) it made me want to reread this book. No spoilers but just to avoid your inevitable disappointment - The wise man's fear does not have answers to The name of the wind's questions, nor does it tie its loose ends :D for that, we are still waiting. (10 years and counting)

[samuelbird]

Ok it’s not just you a lot of book tubers do it which I find… irritating considering they’ve read the book but it Kvothe like Quote which is stated in the book when he’s with the troupe

[rkosurvivor]

Alright now i definitely gotta read this

[robiu]

thought it was surprisingly poetic for a fantasy novel, but like you hinted at the book doesn't really feel like it's telling a wholesome story on it's own. felt kind of anti-climactic at the end.


what's so special about Nigel Slater?

[KrazyAwesomeful]

PSA: The Third book in the series, The Doors of Stone, is set to come out in August if this year, finally!! Just thought I’d let you all know!!!

[alext]

The Name of the Wind holds a special place in my heart. I read it in high school, and it was one of the first novels where I actively noticed and paid attention to the author's prose style and _how_ the story was being told. One aspect of the novel that has continued to intrigue me is Kvothe's reliability as a narrator. Is he being truthful, or will we learn that he has been manipulating the reader the whole time? Rothfuss's answer in the third book will undoubtedly affect how people view the series.


I do pity you, though. Now you are part of the millions of us who have to wait and wonder if Rothfuss is ever going to publish the third book.