/lit/ - Literature

>>17360637
That cover has put me off reading it for so long, I've been searching for this one

I just finished Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, and I have to admit I'm flummoxed. A blurb on the back says to shelve it next to The Lord if the Rings as "the first among equals" which either speaks incredibly poorly about the reviewer's opinion of Tolkien, or of their qualifications as a reviewer.

I genuinely don't get the hype around this novel. Clocking in at a gargantuan 700 pages, the narrative goes approximately nowhere. Thinking over the book as a whole, I can't point to a single event of consequence that happens to the protagonist after the childhood tragedy that ostensibly starts his story. The tale, that portends to reveal the true story behind a legendary hero spends almost the entirety of its time on the world shaking question of whether or not the protagonist will be able to pay off his student loans. My hand to God, I wish I was making this up. The closest thing this epic fantasy novel, which has been heralded as the second coming of the genre, has to an ongoing conflict is predatory lending.

The author is talented, I suppose, but everything is dressed up in this tortured purple prose with pretentious of being literary despite the absolute absence of theme or plot. Much has been made of the world building but I found the world, it's politics, and level of technological development to be incredibly amorphous. Everything feels dull and static and vague in a way that makes me wonder if the author himself even knows what any of the various countries, people, and cultures he tosses around are supposed to be.

What is some essential cuck literature? Pic related.

I'm re-reading the series in-case the author decides to publish the 3rd.
What are your guys opinions on it? If you have read it

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Would you read and pretend to enjoy a shitty book just to increase the chances of getting laid with a particular someone? Asking for a friend.