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Sep 19, 2017isaachar rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is definitely a book that you either love or hate. I loved it, but I can see why others may not enjoy it as much. The Name of the Wind is the story of Kvothe, a talented jack of all trades. In a yarn as old and as common as the fantasy genre itself, Kvothe conveys his story of learning, adventure and revenge. How he mastered any task put to him, made allies and enemies and was the envy or bane of all who came across him. How he survived as a child foraging in the wild, in the cutthroat streets of a city as a thief, and as a wizarding school prodigy. The story is told through Kvothe explaining his history to a chronicler, long after he's put his adventure days to rest. A familiar classical tale. There are a lot of things that might be a turnoff to modern fantasy readers. Kvothe is almost impossibly capable. He masters every task as he learns it, and finds solutions to his problems almost before he's made aware of them. The story is also very specified to his character. If you're looking for complex, multi-character fantasy with something you don't see very often, you won't find it here. If you enjoy classical Robert Howard/L. Sprague DeCamp style fantasy, you'll find Name of the Wind fits right in. The story has little to no gore, practically no sexual content, and I don't recall any serious foul language in it. It's basically a golden age swords and sorcery series (more sorcery than swords), but made in the modern era.