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A review by silversteampunk
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
1.0
HOW do people like this book? The main character, Kvothe, is the worst character I have ever read in any piece of adult fiction. He is a top notch Mary-Sue right up there with “Ebony Darkness Dementia Ravenway.” Except unlike Ebony he isn’t funny, and he doesn’t bring back fond memories of being an edgy middle-schooler. He just reads like a self-conscious man with no friends that you would find featured on the r/IamVerySmart, r/IamVeryBadass and r/QuitYourBullshit subreddits.
Sorry to sound crude, but the best way to sum up this book is some guy basically bragging about the size of his dick without ever actually mentioning his dick.
The book starts out with a mysterious innkeeper (Kvothe) slaying spooky spider-demons, and I was totally on board. That goes on for a couple chapters until the book decides to slam on the breaks as he decides to tell us his entire life story starting when he was like 5….
At 5 he knew several different languages, played the lute better than adults, and probably had an IQ of 300 or something ridiculous like that. Also keep in mind, this is all in first person. “As a child I knew many different languages” and “I wasn't like other children my age I was special” So yeah…. This gets old very quickly.
And we literally get his entire life story up until he’s a late teenager.
Chaste women turn into sluts for him, boys hate him because he’s so good at everything, and all his teachers either worship him because he is so gifted or they are jealous of him and hate him because he’s better at everything than they are. I think you pretty much get the idea. This book is around 90 chapters long too if I remember correctly. 90 chapters of this.
It sucks because I was legitimately interested in the worldbuilding and the mysteries that were introduced in the beginning of the story. His parents are killed by these cryptic entities/creatures called the Chandrian that kill anyone who know even small pieces of lore about them. And I was very genuinely interested in this part of the story, but the story brought this up rarely. By the end of the book, it didn’t really answer any of the questions brought up in the beginning. The book was much more focused on the drama surrounding Kvothe’s lovelife and school life.
Sorry to sound crude, but the best way to sum up this book is some guy basically bragging about the size of his dick without ever actually mentioning his dick.
The book starts out with a mysterious innkeeper (Kvothe) slaying spooky spider-demons, and I was totally on board. That goes on for a couple chapters until the book decides to slam on the breaks as he decides to tell us his entire life story starting when he was like 5….
At 5 he knew several different languages, played the lute better than adults, and probably had an IQ of 300 or something ridiculous like that. Also keep in mind, this is all in first person. “As a child I knew many different languages” and “I wasn't like other children my age I was special” So yeah…. This gets old very quickly.
And we literally get his entire life story up until he’s a late teenager.
Chaste women turn into sluts for him, boys hate him because he’s so good at everything, and all his teachers either worship him because he is so gifted or they are jealous of him and hate him because he’s better at everything than they are. I think you pretty much get the idea. This book is around 90 chapters long too if I remember correctly. 90 chapters of this.
It sucks because I was legitimately interested in the worldbuilding and the mysteries that were introduced in the beginning of the story. His parents are killed by these cryptic entities/creatures called the Chandrian that kill anyone who know even small pieces of lore about them. And I was very genuinely interested in this part of the story, but the story brought this up rarely. By the end of the book, it didn’t really answer any of the questions brought up in the beginning. The book was much more focused on the drama surrounding Kvothe’s lovelife and school life.