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    • maxterdexter
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      Well, I finished the 2th one (Record time, over 1000 pages in 3 days!)

      As the last one was touched uppon one of the Naruto threads of old, I open this one to talk a little about the book.

      ! The friends on the arcanum, both Sim and Wil are painfully interchangeable, so are Fela and Mola… They should have at least been sisters with that kind of names.
      ! The forest chapters went on and on and on. The only tedium breaker was the interactions with Tempi. The court chapters weren't as anoying.
      ! Other than that I enjoyed the book deeply.
      ! The world grew, the characters grew, we saw new sides of Elodin, Devi, Auri, Kvothe and Denna, and got to cross out some more things of the badass boast that started the narrative.
      ! Speaking of the narrative. Chronicler standing his ground to the ripples of chaos from the Cthaeh, even if it's a little, he's the one who can stop them, as the man who finds history, he can see the weaves of the past and how they get to the present. Besides, there's no "End" of History, except… total anihilation.
      ! Kvothe. Seeing all his gifts fail him, last book the sympatethic link, and now the Ketan, the chest that he couldn't open, the simpleton that he couldn't manipulate to do the right thing, the story that he couldn't make be listened. The lack of music on the inn. The only thing thad still makes me think that he's the true Kvothe is that he still hasn't tried to call the name of the wind, and the fact that the narrative implies that the monsters, the seven, the fae and that the war was consequence of his actions are true.
      ! Bast, he's manipulating Kvothe, he's getting creepy, not in the killing of the dumb soldiers, but in the calmness of his planning. He's a manipulator, and manipulating Kvothe, and that shouldn't end pretty.
      ! Present Kvothe... how can a man fall that high? I mean that he's not that bad now but.. all his skills, his gift, his knowledge, his craft, his words, his very music gone? There's something weird to the story, why stay as a mortal and not go back to Felurian? Something tells me that this man is a fake, or the tale is fake. His only characteristics that haven't been tested, his naming, his charm on women, his music, his crafting of runes and his anger to being manipulated will shed light to the mistery.. eventualy.
      ! I want to know, I wish that I didn't need to wait 3 years for more.

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      • Silence
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        Getting it tomorrow.

        Can't wait can't wait can't wait can't WAIT!

        Originally Posted by Wagomu

        There's a great lighthearted vibe around here, because no matter how serious we might get, we're all together because of some magical pirate.

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        • Razh
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          Read the Fear yesterday. In Croatian.

          Then, after scouring the internet for any trace of possible release date (as I often do after reading, because everything has sequels nowadays) and more information, I came across some information that made me both excited and kinda sad at the same time. Due to a long pause between reading #1 and #2 and due to certain name puns and similarities being untranslatable, there are some connections I plain missed.

          ! Like Meluan most likely being Kvothe's aunt. I just plain forgot that Kvothe's mother was of noble birth. And then that song his father wrote, with that last line pun. Damn. Also, that bit from the first book when Kvothe's mom berated him for singing that song about lady Lackless. So many connections.
          ! Then there's all the hints and half-hints and pseudo hints on who Master Ash might be. Some of them I caught, but it's impossible to catch them all without reading it exactly as the author wrote it. I also like how Ctaegh might have been leading Kvothe on to hate Ash, even though he might be just training Denna to fight or something.
          ! You really can't appreciate the effort Rothfuss makes while reading it on any other language.
          ! As for Kote, there really is something very very off. I have a feeling that he might have played with naming a little. Remember that Elodin freaks out when Kvothe talks to him about changing someone's name (he was talking about Denna). If he tried to change his own name for whatever reason, it might have fucked him up completely, to the point he can't even use the skills he had learned properly, or maybe needs to learn how to use them all over again.
          ! Bast is getting a little creepy, but what is creepy to us might not be that creepy for his kind. He thinks differently and therefore it's hard to gauge whether what he's doing is good or bad.

          That line about waiting 3 years written in 2011. looks so sad now. I really need to read first 2 in english before reading the 3rd. Hopefully some time next year, but I won't hold my breath.

          Originally Posted by Outerspec

          Trying to understand Bleach is like trying to drink a bottle of bleach.

          It makes no sense and you'll be dead before you're finished.

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          • Robby
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            Gah, don't bump a thread like this needlessly when there's been a 6 year break between books when there isn't news! That's just cruel.

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            • maxterdexter
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              2011.. 5 years ago, almost six already. Damn, should read the thing again. Or at least auri's book.

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              There is a series or movie in the planing, that's the only news.

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              • Razh
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                @Robby:

                Gah, don't bump a thread like this needlessly when there's been a 6 year break between books when there isn't news! That's just cruel.

                Sorry, just needed to get stuff out. Didn't occur to me that someone might think there's actual NEWS.

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                @maxterdexter:

                2011.. 5 years ago, almost six already. Damn, should read the thing again. Or at least auri's book.

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                There is a series or movie in the planing, that's the only news.

                Keep forgetting about that Auri book. Doesn't interest me that much, but I'd like to read solely so I don't miss something.

                From what I heard there's going to be a movie (at least one), TV series and a video game.

                All I care about is the damn book.

                Originally Posted by Outerspec

                Trying to understand Bleach is like trying to drink a bottle of bleach.

                It makes no sense and you'll be dead before you're finished.

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