Excellent book, this is the second time I read it and I still enjoyed it.

I couldn't put it down! Well-paced, great detail!

This book was recommended to me and I read it for the first time last year. Here is my previous review: "When it comes to fantasy I can easily get wrapped up in a good story and love visiting the imaginatively detailed worlds, but I'm not too well-read within the genre. So I approach Patrick Rothfuss's debut novel, The Name of the Wind, as kind of an outsider. The verdict: Give it enough time and you will love it! The story is a slow boil. I was lost until about page 50, and I didn't really get hooked until after 150 pages. Once I passed the 200 page mark I finished the last 500 in 4 days. The story of Kvothe (pronounced sort of like "Quothe") is the story of a legend, but you'll be constantly surprised uncovering the differences between legend and fact. The world created, loosely known as the four corners of civilization, is entirely believable and equally full of beauty, wonder, grit and danger. This book is part one of a trilogy and the next installment is due out in March 2011. It's marked on my calendar." After putting the book down, I looked ahead to the release of the second book, The Wise Man's Fear, and I even followed the author's blog. What completely surprised me was how much this story excited my imagination. I found myself revisiting Kvothe's world over and over again in my mind. I cannot recommend The Name of the Wind enough.

Best fantasy in years. It has most of the tropes, BUT they all seem fresh in Rothfuss's treatment. His prose and character development are good enough that you relish the slower bits of elaboration as much as if not more than the moments of breakneck adventure. Any attempt by me to refer to other books will only give you the wrong ideas. When Kvothe tries to "win his pipes" in a crowded inn before the best musicians around, a string breaks. You truly feel the empathy musicians share, you hear the harmony vibrate when a female voice finally rises to take up the counterpoint verse, your heart falls and rises with the turns in the story. My eyes teared up just reading that section and it is only one of many "asides". I loved the slow introductory chapter.

Book 1 in the Kingkiller trilogy. Excellent fantasy writing- smart, engaging characters, interesting plot that keeps getting thicker, and loads of fun, fantasy world tweeks. There are big themes here- loss, growing up, finding your path in life etc. with all the twists and turns of a great adventure story. Love it!

Fair warning - this is only my opinion, but I still wanted to share it. This book was clearly loved by many readers - the spine was broken and the cover falling off - but I just couldn't slog through it. Feels like a rip-off of every post-Tolkein fantasy novel (opening scene has travelers meeting up in an Inn, discussing politics/rumors of monsters). There are too many better novels out there (imho) to waste time on this one (but a co-worker says the series gets better).

Kingkiller Chronicles Bk 1

I absolutely loved this book and it's characters. I spent a good two days (at least) telling one of my friends I much I enjoyed it. Definitely looking forward to reading the sequel.

This book is simply amazing. The setting descriptions make it feel like your really there, hearing Kvothe play the lute, or seeing the draccus die. I didn't want to put it down, and when I had to, I went right back to it.

This is definitely an excellent book: it gets better in retrospect, and even better on a second read. The weakest part is the slow timing in the first hundred or two pages. The first time I read it, it simply did not strike me as a young-adult book – probably because I was so convinced that the ‘real story’ was going to take place in the present day rather than in the flashbacks. But, in the flashbacks, Kvothe is young: 12, 14, 16.