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THE NAME OF THE WIND
"MY NAME IS KVOTHE.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to written songs that make minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature--the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale ofone man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend."
Praise for THE NAME OF THE WIND
"THE NAME OF THE WIND is one of the best stories told in any medium in a decade. [Patrick Rothfuss'] debut novel combines the intricate stories-within-stories structure of The Arabian Nights with the academic setting of the Harry Potter series, and transforms it all into a brooding, thoroughly adult meditation on how heroism went wrong.... Shelve THE NAME OF THE WIND beside The Lord of the Rings...and look forward to the day when it's mentioned in the same breath, perhaps as first among equals." -- The Onion A.V. Club
"Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous." -- Terry Brooks, 22-time New York Times bestselling author.
"[Rothfuss is] the great new fantasy writer we've been waiting for, and this is an astonishing book...." -- Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender's Game
"Refreshingly nimble and off-beat... a finely tuned coming-of-age story, full of humor, action and the occasional dose of magic.... This is a remarkably assured debut. Fans of George R. R. Martin and Tad Williams are likely to be impressed and will eagerly await the next chapter." -- The San Francisco Chronicle
"THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it is not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love and loss." -- Tad Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Otherland and Shadowmarch.
"As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
THE WISE MAN'S FEAR
Praise for THE WISE MAN'S FEAR
"Forced to leave the university and seek his fortune abroad, Kvothe travels to Vintas, only to become entangled in the politics and intrigues of courtly society as he uncovers an assassination plot, reveals the truth about Amyr, the Chandrian, and the deaths of his parents, and is tutored in the ways of true magic by Felurian, an irresistible faerie woman."
"As seamless and lyrical as a song from the lute-playing adventurer and arcanist Kvothe, this mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss's 2007, The Name of the Wind, is a towering work of fantasy.... This breathtakingly epic story is heartrending in its intimacy and masterful in its narrative essence, and will leave fans waiting on tenterhooks for the final installment." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"Reminiscent in scope of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and similar in feel to the narrative tour de force of The Arabian Nights, this masterpiece of storytelling will appeal to lovers of fantasy on a grand scale." -- Library Journal (starred review).
"The Wise Man's Fear fairly leaps off the page, whatever the setting and circumstances." -- Locus
"This sequel carries the first book's ideas and wild exuberance further, with aplomb. By combining bold choices with bolder sincerity, Rothfuss has found one of the secrets of great storytelling." -- The Onion A.V. Club
"The Wise Man's Fear was worth waiting for. It's about as good as this kind of fantasy can possibly get.... This is an extremely immersive story set in a flawlessly constructed world and told extremely well. I dont want to criticizw it and analyze it--I don't want tostep that far away from it. I want to sink down below the surface of it and become completely immersed." -- Jo Walton, Tor.com
"The Wise Man's Fear is a BEAUTIFUL book to read. Masterful prose, a sense of cohesion to the storytelling, a wonderful sense of pacing.... None of that is the reason for the awesomeness any more than a single dab of paint is the reason why Monet is a thing of wonder. But if you step back....you are left with a sense of awe. There is beauty to Pat's writing that defies description." -- Brandon Sanderson, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Way of Kings
ROGUES
"If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire. Follow along with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix, and Connie Willis, as well as other masters of literary sleight-of-hand, in this rogues gallery of stories that will plunder your heart—and yet leave you all the richer for it."
SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS
"The Slow Regard of Silent Things is set at The University, where the brightest minds work to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences, such as artificing and alchemy. Auri, a former student (and a secondary but influential character from Rothfuss’s earlier novels) now lives alone beneath the sprawling campus in a maze of ancient and abandoned passageways. There in The Underthing, she feels her powers and learns to see the truths that science—and her former classmates—have overlooked."
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