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date pub edition Jun 30, 2008
Rob's rating my rating review In many ways, this novel can be considered a love letter to passionate readers in all walks of life. As The Shadow of the Wind has touched Daniel and...more
In many ways, this novel can be considered a love letter to passionate readers in all walks of life. As The Shadow of the Wind has touched Daniel and given form to his life, so have books given purpose and meaning to many a reader’s life. This novel is an absolute must read for any lover of books. The edition Subterranean Press has produced looks to be worthy of the reputation and inner beauty of the novel itself. With cover and interior illustrations by Vincent Chong, the book will be from cover to cover, pictures and words, a beautiful piece of art to be cherished. The novel haunts me still and I plan on revisiting Daniel in my future readings. One of the ten best books I ever read.(less)
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date pub 2007
date pub edition Mar 27, 2007
Rob's rating my rating review Excerpt links to full review: Many of the things Rothfuss does are indeed subtle. The story starts rather typically – an innkeeper, Kote, tends to his...more
Excerpt links to full review: Many of the things Rothfuss does are indeed subtle. The story starts rather typically – an innkeeper, Kote, tends to his customers in a comfortable setting. When a dark creature enters the inn and is destroyed by strange means, things come to be more clear. For one, the innkeeper is not an innkeeper at all, he is the legendary wizard Kvothe. Again, this is not an entirely new idea; hide your legend/protagonist in plain sight. After the first thirty to fifty pages of this impressive tome, Rothfuss is telling the reader things aren’t exactly what they seem and what lies under the surface is much more interesting than it would otherwise seem. Rotfhuss does a superb job of drawing the reader into the familiar and comfortable story, a familiar feeling story, until he changes gears and keeps the reader hooked in even more. He does this both in the focus of the story and the narrative voice, switching from third person omniscient to first person narrative, allowing the protagonist to tell his own story. ... Like Rotfhuss’s shift in narrative voice early in the novel, Kvothe’s life soon shifts, though this is a major turn for the worse. His troupe has an encounter with a seemingly random group of marauders. Like the story itself, these marauders are more than they seem. Kvothe gets only a hint; his father was telling the wrong stories, stories about the mysterious people known as the Chandrian. Kvothe soon hitches a ride to Tarbeam, a sizeable city where he becomes a street urchin, living only by his wits and bare feet. Kvothe eventually leaves the streets and journeys to make his bid for entry in the University. Along the way, he falls in with a caravan where he meets a lovely, enchanting woman named Denna. He is faced with a hard decision when the caravan arrives at Imre, the young woman, Kvothe says goodbye to Denna and the scene is one of few that plays out a bit too clichéd.(less)
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Rob's rating my rating review More like 4.75 stars out of 5... Excerpt links to full review: The story unfolds as Kvothe’s semester takes a great deal out of him and his run-ins with...more
More like 4.75 stars out of 5... Excerpt links to full review: The story unfolds as Kvothe’s semester takes a great deal out of him and his run-ins with Ambrose are still having a major effect on his ability to secure a patron as a sponsor for his lute-playing and singing. When his friends and teachers suggest he take some time off from the University he reluctantly agrees that all the work both as a student, in the various workshops like the fishery, and time in the taverns have taken their toll on the young arcanist in training. After Kvothe agrees, the one noble who has been aiding Kvothe – Threpe – arranges for Kvothe to help Maer Alveron, a noble across the sea in the land of Vintas. When Kvothe arrives, he begins to learn and play the societal game of nobles, which is most pointedly exemplified by those who receive rings from others. ... Suffice it to say, any summary of a Rothfuss novel does absolutely no justice to the actual novel itself. Rothfuss really had no room for improvement from the last book, in terms of his powerfully addictive narrative abilities, but he may have just upped his ante a bit in Wise Mans Fear . The themes and focus of his story from the previous volume has been carried over to the second volume – that of Kvothe’s search for the Chandrian and the sheer power of story. If anything, the power of story is both elevated and demystified in Wise Mans Fear – elevated in that more stories within stories are told and demystified in that stories truly are alive and can change over time.(less)
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Rob's rating my rating review Excerpt links to full review:Due to several things in my personal life, I didn’t have as much free reading time as of late, including the time I was r ...more
Excerpt links to full review:Due to several things in my personal life, I didn’t have as much free reading time as of late, including the time I was reading The Way of Kings , resulting in a longer time period than normal for me to complete my read of the novel. That said, Sanderson’s skill and pure narrative power did not lose me at all over the course of time it took me to read the book, or the great page count he took to tell the story. Though it is a long novel, aside from a few scenes here or there of characters whose impact and import will likely be felt in later novels of the saga, I can’t say that it felt like a long tale. It felt epic and powerful, and a story and world I was pleased to be immersed in during the entire reading experience of the novel. (less)
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Rob's rating my rating review Atticus is a 2,000-plus year old Druid who lives with his Irish Wolfhond Oberon in Tempe, Arizona; runs a shop that specializes in herbal remedies and ...more
Atticus is a 2,000-plus year old Druid who lives with his Irish Wolfhond Oberon in Tempe, Arizona; runs a shop that specializes in herbal remedies and arcane books; communes with Celtic and native American tribal gods, witches and all sort of supernatural characters. When his arch enemy cranks up the hunt for Atticus, the Druid decides to stop running and confront the Celtic God Aenghus Óg. ... The plot is fairly straightforward, which allows Hearne to flesh out his characters and the magical world in which the story takes place. It seems as if All Myths and Gods are true in Hearne’s world or the world is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, but in Hounded he focuses primarily on the Celtic/Druidic mythologies, such as the Morrigan (goddess of birth, fertility, and strife); Brighid (goddess of healing/fertility, patroness of fighting, and goddess of poetry), and of course the aforementioned Aenghus; the goddess of love. The only seeming consensus among all these gods is that none of them much care for Thor. ... The tagline I’ve seen thrown around for this book/series is Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden , which I feel is more than apt. Click link for full review at SFFWorld(less)
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