The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1

Fast delivery however the book arrived slightly damaged

it is not as pretty as the Daw 10th anniversary edition with it's sprayed edges, but it's still really good

C'est un livre inégal, très long (700 pages bien remplies), pas toujours parfaitement structuré, et dont certaines parties se révèlent peu satisfaisantes.Mais c'est aussi un excellent récit d'apprentissage et d'initiation. Les passages réussis sont absolument prenants et ne lâchent pas le lecteur pendant 300 pages. Le héros est à la fois très classique et souvent inattendu. La plupart des personnages sont hauts en couleur et très réussis (on regrette parfois le manque de personnages féminins et leurs rôles très secondaires, même s'ils ne sont pas complètement négligés). Et surtout, l'univers possède une cohérence et une profondeur rarement égalée dans le genre, en partie grâce à la présence de nombreux mythes et légendes qui permettent d'étoffer ce monde à la manière d'un Tolkien (avec moins de puissance évocatrice, certes, mais il serait injuste d'attendre de tous les auteurs de fantasy qu'ils murissent leur univers pendant 40 ans avant d'écrire un roman). Un petit chef-d'oeuvre, quoique imparfait, de ces dernières années. À lire pour tous les amoureux du genre !

Good story, although the pace of it seems slow at times. Book itself is of good quality (material, print quality, etc.)

Looking forward to the release of the last book.Why hasn't any director decided to turn this into a movie?It might be considered as a similar story to Harry Potter, but it is not!!!Long story short I really admire the author's writing style and how beautiful his sentences are.A must read

Lately if you go to goodreads and look for this books, you will find many people are giving it 1 star rating. if you read their review one thing is clear i.e. it is not they did not like the book but it is that they are impatient for 3rd book to be released and out of that impatience and as means of exacting a revenge on patrick for not releasing 3rd book sooner they are giving 1 star. BTW these books are with the highest rating books on the goodreads. I have read LOTR, ASOIAF, HP, Mistborn and farseer,ember in the ashes, gentelmen basterds trilogy as well as a lot of non fantasy literature. but this TKC is something else altogether, it is genre defining. it is compared to ASOIAF as a next big like Game of Thrones and I think they are justified in making such claims. I can go further and even say at times it outwits ASOIAF too. This is story of legend and told by legend. Patrick succeeded in beautiful weaving of words, phrases sentences aphorisms and axioms. prose is is the biggest selling point of the book. sometimes it feels like poetry, the demarcation between prose and poetry are blurred by patrick. at a times you'd wonder yourself how can a person can come up with such a marvelous prose. These books are such big leap of human imagination, only a prodigy can come up with this masterful harmony of words.The story, the world, world building, history of the world, its culture, art, economy, its classes, and most important it's magic are captured in detail. Even though Patrick is not a musician yet he created the musician in a book in such way that you really get the feel of music being played, you get the notion that you are really listening to music, the way he plays with words is phenomenal, he captures moments,scenes and take them to different level. There are few books that I like to read again and again. Since purchase of these books in august 2015, I have already read them twice and will read again and again until 3rd book comes out. To those epic fantasy as well as non fantasy lovers, who wish to read good prose and story, this is the book, just close your eyes and hit the order button, and start devouring once you get it and then next one. I guarantee you will not be disappointed. There comes a time in each persons life which drastically change them, this is one such series which can potentially change how person take literature. It made me want to think about writing. Eschew all negative comment mongerer and go for it. These are the books worth investing your time for....