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beaktastic's review against another edition
5.0
Okay, I did write a really long and detailed review of how utterly amazing and awesome and brilliant this book is, but it didn't actually save after I clicked save. :( And I cant be bothered to write it all out again... So needless to say, this book is outstanding and one of my favourites already. Read it!
damkedward's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
polarbearedie's review against another edition
5.0
I love reading this book every couple of years, the prose and world building pull me into the story so well I lose track of time. Thank you Patrick Rothfuss
lexiedaw's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
daniel_thewalkingdude's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
boredstudent's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
bengaliyaoi's review against another edition
2.0
Nice world-building but I feel like this was a pretty aimless kind of high fantasy story. Maybe that’s the point, I’m not sure—but I feel like after reading how clever and smart Kvothe is and how his only flaw is that he’s reckless I kind of just stopped being interested and powered through sheer force of will. Kvothe should have sucked Bast’s dick at some point. Feel like that would’ve spice things up maybe
a_rudnyk's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mmmlysaght's review against another edition
For better and for worse, this book is classical fantasy embodied: enormously long and followed by two equally brick-like behemoths, staring a miraculously gifted but personally lackluster male main character pining after the beautiful and broken maiden, set against a mythology that promised more than it delivered in originality.
To be fair, I was hooked - for about the first 100 pages. And then the veil was drawn back to reveal that the mythology (the only thing I was truly interested in to begin with) was pretty much Jesus/LoTR crossover fic, and that nothing even as remotely interesting or thought provoking as the main character dying (even if it was threatened, much to my utter lack of surprise) was going to happen.
And then I did a foolish thing, and I read on.
I read every inconsequential and unoriginal thing that happened to the main character, often through his own asinine notions of personal grandeur, as well as every time Mr.Boring LeFey thoroughly vanquished the minuscule odds against him and crowed his own greatness like he built the heavens himself; if you're literally the best lute player in the whole of existence, you'll excuse me if I'm a little disdainful of your pride in utterly destroying the musical futures of, well, pretty much anyone.
So I stopped reading, and I instantly became a happier person sans the hours of my life I gave this bloodless mockery of storytelling.
Some pretty names and mystical titles for magic do not a complex and worthwhile read make, and being a main character does not entitle a boring man to 600 words of anyone's attention.
Pros:
- It's a book. If you like books, that's step one right there.
Cons:
- Unoriginal and excessively secretive treatment of mythology
- Christopher Paolini at 16 wrote a fantasy culture with probably more diversity and difference from dungeons and dragons medievalism than Rothfuss'
- Main character with Mary Sue levels of innate talent, animal magnetism, and self importance - also similar levels of 'literally anyone but the author of that Mary Sue caring'
- Glacial pacing, lackluster prose, cliches in literally every element of the story from the narrative frame to the metaphors
- I think my cat has more personality than the female "character"
To be fair, I was hooked - for about the first 100 pages. And then the veil was drawn back to reveal that the mythology (the only thing I was truly interested in to begin with) was pretty much Jesus/LoTR crossover fic, and that nothing even as remotely interesting or thought provoking as the main character dying (even if it was threatened, much to my utter lack of surprise) was going to happen.
And then I did a foolish thing, and I read on.
I read every inconsequential and unoriginal thing that happened to the main character, often through his own asinine notions of personal grandeur, as well as every time Mr.Boring LeFey thoroughly vanquished the minuscule odds against him and crowed his own greatness like he built the heavens himself; if you're literally the best lute player in the whole of existence, you'll excuse me if I'm a little disdainful of your pride in utterly destroying the musical futures of, well, pretty much anyone.
So I stopped reading, and I instantly became a happier person sans the hours of my life I gave this bloodless mockery of storytelling.
Some pretty names and mystical titles for magic do not a complex and worthwhile read make, and being a main character does not entitle a boring man to 600 words of anyone's attention.
Pros:
- It's a book. If you like books, that's step one right there.
Cons:
- Unoriginal and excessively secretive treatment of mythology
- Christopher Paolini at 16 wrote a fantasy culture with probably more diversity and difference from dungeons and dragons medievalism than Rothfuss'
- Main character with Mary Sue levels of innate talent, animal magnetism, and self importance - also similar levels of 'literally anyone but the author of that Mary Sue caring'
- Glacial pacing, lackluster prose, cliches in literally every element of the story from the narrative frame to the metaphors
- I think my cat has more personality than the female "character"