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Patrick Rothfuss, Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind (EBook, 2007, DAW)

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Published Sept. 27, 2007 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-1-101-14716-0
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OCLC Number:
859606085

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4 stars (3 reviews)

My name is Kvothe.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature—the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man’s search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

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reviewed The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

epic adventure

5 stars

Patrick Rothfuss wrote a masterpiece. My friend had lend it to me as her and introduced it as her favourite book, it did not disappoint. Well written, epic, tense, funny and a fantastic world around university, magic, adventure and love. Involving tragic moments, humour, suspense and surprises.

No se puede fingir que se es más inteligente de lo que se es

2 stars

Entiendo por qué es popular: la prosa va buscando belleza. Pero medio vulgar, por eso lo llaman populus-vulgus. El protagonista es brillante, lo dicen su maestro y sus papás en conversación privada. Que el protagonista escucha escondido. Nosotros nos enteramos a través del protagonista, que le está narrando su vida a un cronista. De vez en cuando algo pasa con el cronista y con otros personajes de ese tiempo presente, y nos sospechamos que la historia que se quiere contar es a partir de ese tiempo presente. Pero no sería satisfactorio nomás partir del hombre hecho: hay que ir hasta su infancia y narrar cada episodio. Y cuesta entender por qué siendo un niño tan brillante se mete tan bobamente en problemas tan serios. ¿Será lo de las múltiples inteligencias? Muy a lo Harry Potter se la pasa al borde de la expulsión de la escuela, e insiste en que …