He’s written to be this incredibly smart, keen person, and yet, he is always making incredibly stupid choices and missing incredibly obvious clues. I had major problems with Kvothe as a character. I had more problems with it than just its length and dragging along from point to point. (Okay, that was a slight exaggeration, but only slight they are usually four paragraphs that lead into another four paragraphs describing something else.) Are you suddenly thinking of the ‘classics’? I’ll get to that later.*
We are not living in isolated early 19th century where the only thing we have to fill our time is a description of a mountainside that takes five lengthy paragraphs to get through.
Most books I read that are over 600 pages, I find myself thinking, ‘Who the heck edited this book? They did a terrible job at least a third of the words in here could be axed.’ Get to the point people (namely, authors). After thinking about it for awhile, I decided that about five of those 600+ paged books made good, crucial use of all of those 600+ pages. I’ve read a good armful of 600+ paged fiction books. I will now write a soap-boxy rant review about this book that I imagine almost no one will read, but it will at least make myself feel better. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (UK cover)
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