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Ye Rax 1099785703ae86 — Took a surprisingly long time to read, but that may have more to do with the motorcycle and camping trips to visit with family... a LOT of visiting happened and, hence, less reading. This was a tough book to pick up and put down and pick up and put down; not great with little nieces and nephews around that are consistently stealing your attention with adorable antics. That being said, I loved this book. I was undecided at first and didn't really care for the first perspective presented, but it is obviously completely necessary to fully appreciating the second perspective. This really was an amazing read and I would recommend it to anyone that has ever struggled with duplicity or self-deception... anyone that has lived, actually! :) I literally noted IN my book for this one because some passages were so keenly profound and personally acute. Shocking that this was almost like reading about recent relationships in my life. Yikes! Loved this thought: "Religion is a sublime and glorious thing, the bond of society on earth, and the connector of humanity with the Divine nature; but there is nothing so dangerous to man as the wresting of any of its principles, or forcing them beyond their due bounds: this is of all others the readiest way to destruction." pg. 119 "I sometimes fumed, and sometimes shed tears at being obliged to yield to proposals against which I had at first felt every reasoning power of my soul rise in opposition; but for all that he never failed in carrying conviction along with him in effect, for he either forced me to acquiesce in his measures, and assent to the truth of his positions, or he put me so completely down that I had not a word left to advance against them." pg. 167 "When I was by myself, I breathed freer, and my step was lighter; but, when he approached, a pang went to my heart, and, in his company, I moved and acted as if under a load that I could hardly endure. What a state to be in! And yet to shake him off was impossible--we were incorporated together--identified with one another, as it were, and the power was not in me to separate myself from him." pg. 168 "Thus was I sojourning in the midst of a chaos of confusion. I looked back on my by-past life with pain, as one looks back on a perilous journey, in which he has attained his end, without gaining any advantage either to himself or others; and I looked forward, as on a darksome waste, full of repulsive and terrific shapes, pitfalls, and precipices, to which there was no definite bourn, and from which I turned with disgust.... My principal feeling, about this time was an insatiable longing for something that I cannot describe or denominate properly, unless I say it was for utter oblivion that I longed. I desired to sleep; but it was for a deeper and longer sleep than that in which the senses were nightly steeped. I longed to be at rest and quiet, and close my eyes on the past and the future alike, as far as this frail life was concerned."

Mark Juarez _ark_uarez — خیلی دوستش دارم :)

Vinodini Iyer vinodini — A snail moves faster than this book's pacing. Way too much information is thrown but it sheds a lot of interesting light on New Orleans's culture. The descriptions of the city itself were well-done. Too bad nothing else really lived up to that.

Raymond Caldera _aymond36 — When The Name of the Wind came out a few years ago, one of my first concerns--after reading the novel and enjoying the heck out of it, of course--was whether Rothfuss could follow it up with a worthy sequel. The publishing world is full of wunderkinds who failed to live up to the hype. So how does Rothfuss fare with The Wise Man's Fear? Is his followup a worth successor? Well . . . mostly. One thing I vividly recall about The Name of the Wind was how bloody fast I read the original. Once the story got moving, I almost couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Wise Man's Fear. If I remember correctly, Rothfuss spends about 350 pages depicting Kvothe's ongoing education at the University, his dealings with his friends, and his pining for Denna. It was a LONG 350 pages. It's not that Rothfuss has changed his writing style--he's still easy to read, almost breezy. But it felt like the book was "treading water", waiting for the plot to catch up. This is a long book, but waiting that long to get going is just plain sloppy. This section was often painful for me, as it reminded me of Robert Jordan's later works in which characters long for the opposite sex for freakin' ever. Once Kvothe finally leaves the University things begin to pick up, and the novel becomes more enjoyable. The book feels a bit compartmentalized, however. The narrative felt a bit like Kovthe short stories stitched together--his work for rich noble, his dealings with the fairie world, his training with Adem warriors, and so forth. Individually his experiences are interesting, but they weren't as engaging as the first novel. Some sections, the Felurian/fairy section in particular, felt unnecessary and tacked on. In the end, I did enjoy the book despite my issues. I did feel like it was entirely too long, as if Rothfuss kept expanding the story to reward his legion of fans. It reminded me a bit of J.K. Rowling's last few novels that truly needed a forceful editor to step up and say "This is too much. Less is more!" I will certainly read the next book in the series but I won't be as eager as I was for this one, and I most definitely hope Rothfuss reigns in on the length for length's sake.