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Opinions?

>> No.5418703

It's childish.

>> No.5418707

A nice satire of fantasy with a few clever bits in it. I consider it transitional pleb because it's pretty simple, but it's got more than basic action and cliched dialogue. Rothfuss does get up his own arse quite a bit with the worldbuilding though, especially with the Adem.

>> No.5418715

>>5418686
Overrated.
2nd book was garbage.

>> No.5418728

How did this book get so popular?

>> No.5418758

>>5418728
shilling?

>> No.5418799

>>5418728

what's the point of questions like this?

>> No.5418809

>>5418799
There's so much mediocre fantasy out there that gets completely ignored, I don't understand how this book blew up. It'll be useful info if I ever write a generic fantasy novel

>> No.5418812

> Kote sat down and sighed deeply, as if he was thinking back on some long distant memory. "Very well", he sighed. "I suppose I shall tell you my story." He looked wistfully into the distance as if absorbed by memory. It was truly him, the great Kvothe, I thought. "I suppose it is best to tell my story," the mysteriously scarred man said. "But I warn you: I tell the story my way. This story, which is my story, is... long and strange. It begins at the beginning, as all stories do, don't they?" Kote chuckled, then sighed deeply and drunk his ale, his eyes on his old black mysterious sword. "Stories are... strange, convoluted things. You should not interrupt me in the telling of my story which I will tell from the beginning, as all stories should be told." He looked upon me and for a moment I saw him as he once was, at the beginning of this strange story. "Now where should I begin telling my story?" He sighed. "I suppose I should start... with the beginning."

>> No.5418831

>>5418812
I guess that was supposed to be funny because of "beggining" repetition, but I just find it cringy...

>> No.5418852

>>5418831
then it's a good representation of what I thought of chapter seven of the Name of the Wind

>> No.5419055

>>5418812
Is the writing really this repetitive? I remember buying it in my native language (italian) a few years ago, and it was nowhere this cringeworthy.

>> No.5419165

>>5418799
Ask yourself, "where am I", then you have your answer.

/lit/ is filled with failed Authors who want to "make it big".
When they see someone else make it with, what in their e/lit/ist pretentious mind, is garbage they get angry.

"Why couldn't that be me?" "What does he have that I don't"

Keep up those salty tears flowing anons, no one will pay their hard earned cash for your garbage that you call a Novel.

>> No.5419185

>>5418686
Mediocore.
Fun, shallow, interesting to read, after finishing it you have nothing to remember it for. You do because it keeps getting mentioned.

>> No.5419202

pretty interesting considering the garbage in the genre

second book was weaker though, and I've already forgotten most of the story. Best part was the homelessness in the big city

>> No.5419219

The first book is entertaining if you don't look at it too hard. The second book is still pretty entertaining, but some parts drag on (the forest, mainly). I read books to be entertained, so I liked it.

>> No.5419296

>>5418812
This isn't in the book. The frame story is told in the third person.

>> No.5419539

>>5418686
I eat up fantasy shit like it came out of the LED's arse and couldn't be bothered pushing past a few pages of this, that's how blandly it's written.