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name of the wind is a story where you get to know the early life of: a (n) (in)famous hero, a talented musician, an innkeeper, a university student, a powerful master of magic, a travelling performer, a child living on the streets, and a killer; all of this in one person, Kvothe. So, the story is basically a retelling of this person's early ...
A world in suspension, suspended in air, Longing for words, to breathe life and flair. Like a melody paused, in the midst of a song, The longing persists, lingering long. For every tale seeks its rightful end, A journey completed, around the bend. So let the longing propel, the quill to write, Bring forth the story, into the light.
This however, felt like listening to the inane power fantasies of a child. Everybody is thoroughly impressed by Kvothe as soon as they meet him (unless they are downright evil), and every woman wants to sleep with him despite the fact that he's a teenager. Which brings me to the worst part of the book. THE WOMEN.
He might seem like your average inn keeper but that is all a secret identity. The story begins when he just a child and how he became an orphan. He had to surive on the gritty streets of a large city. However, Kvothe was more advanced, smarter, than most. His knowledge is what got him going in life. It’s what got him out of poverty and off of ...
The Name of Wind. I don't get it. Anytime i see "Best Fantasy in the last 25 years" this book is either at top or near it. I was super excited to read about a man, a legend to be specific, retell his story on how he ended up in a owning a tavern, a contrast to the adventurous tales i read in synopsis. But oh my god do I hate the main character.
Spoiler Warning: All the posts for this reread will contain extensive spoilers for all the Kingkiller canon, so we can reference events and make connections between everything: the main novels The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, as well as The Slow Regard of Silent Things, The Lightning Tree, How Old Holly Came to Be, and even other ...
Name of the Wind was an amazing novel, beautifully setting up a unique world with a cool magic system and an interesting cast of characters. In the Wise Man's Fear, it felt like little was done to progress the story with the Chandrian and that it was just more set up for the final chapter which is disappointing.
Name of the Wind falls on the Soft Magic side for the aforementioned mystic and implicit nature of sympathy and naming you mentioned, but it punches as a hard magic system because of hard science elements with quantitative physical measurements like thaums and pounds that come up so often around sympathy. Reply reply.
Grey Wind: Off the bat in the name we see grey, the color of the stark's (against the white snow in their sigil) and as King and representative of the North, the placement of the word is key. Grey also refers to Robb's attitude toward duty.
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