Patrick Rothfuss – Cannonball Read 17

A Fey with some actual character makes some bargains with sometimes interesting results

The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss

January 10, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I have only read book 1 of the Kingkiller Chronicles so far, although book 2 is physically on my tbr shelf. I have also not read the first novella set in that world, nor do I subscribe to the author’s fan sites/newsletters/Patreon/etc; I only follow a couple of (free) social media accounts. The Narrow Road Between Desires is a revision/extension of a previously published short story, per the author’s note as well as some commentary on the book’s Goodreads page; I might have […]

Revisting the the Biting Off More than One Can Chew Trilogy (duology)

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Wide Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

November 15, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Name of the Wind This is one of the books I found in 2013 when I was just coming down from quitting a PhD program. About six years of reading had been totally geared toward the degree, or feeling guilty about reading something not geared to a degree. This book appeared on some Buzzfeed list of something something recent fantasy novels, and I was down. So along with a handful of other series I bought a bunch of the books and jumped back into […]

The Women of Name of the Wind, but Particularly Denna

Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

January 26, 2020 by Pheagan 6 Comments

Warning: spoilers abound. What follows is more of a rumination on gender that this book has provoked than a review. I also realize how using the term “the patriarchy” just kind of turns people off, it makes me sound like an irrational feminazi who is offended by the slightest of things and spends her days waiting to be angry about something. To which I say: consider the possibility that this just demonstrates what a great job misogynists have done turning the words we have to […]

Fuck Beginnings, or How I Learned to Stop Kvetching and Love The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

January 20, 2020 by Pheagan 4 Comments

I read this book because people who love the same kinds of books that I do dearly love this book. At the risk of offending the true blue fans, I did not exactly love this book in the beginning. I think it’s worthwhile to talk about it for others who might be put off by the same things I was. Spoiler alert: I ended up loving it. Also, this review really is mildly spoilerish, so make your own choices as to whether to read it. […]

I Think The Wind is Named “Eunice.” That’s a Good Name for Wind.

The Name of the Wind: (Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss

September 6, 2019 by lumenatrix 2 Comments

This book has been kicking around my recommended lists, and I’ve seen it reviewed a couple times here and there, then I saw it was part of the Pajiba Book Archive (though the link to the actual article seems to be broken? Or maybe the article is just too old at this point.) so I finally picked it up and started reading it. It’s a good, solid first novel in a fantasy world. Kvothe the Kingkiller, Kvothe the Arcane, Kvothe the Bloodless, Shadicar, Lightfinger, Six […]

All y’all talking about Rothfuss were right

December 31, 2017 by llp Leave a Comment

It feels like I have been reading people talk about how awesome Patrick Rothfuss is for years, although the talk seems to centre more on him than his book. I finally picked up the first one in the series this summer and then had to tear through the second immediately afterwards, all within a week. It was like I was shovelling the food in my face like I did when my kids were tiny. I read these months ago, HAD MANY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, and […]

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