Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Wise Man's Fear |
| author | Patrick Rothfuss |
| ISBN-10 | 0-575-08142-2 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-575-08142-0 |
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| date | 2013-Mar-01 |
This is the second book of the "Kingkiller Chronicle". It has been a long wait for the second book to be published (several years). Was it worth the wait?
Two things struck me about this volume. One: It is huge. Already "The Name of the Wind" has been a big book. "The Wise Man's Fear" is even bigger. Two: This second volume continues exactly where the first one ended. Seamless. At the end of the first book Kvothe, Bast and Chronicler went to bed, at the beginning of the second book they get up the next morning. The story goes on as if it was one and the same book. This also means that reading "The Wise Man's Fear" without having read "The Name of the Wind" first, lots of things will not be so easy to understand. Even having read the first volume, I was in for a rough start, as it has been four years since I read it; I didn't have all the details ready at the tip of my fingers any more.
The book is still interesting to read, but it is not as engrossing as the first one, there is no real culmination. Sure, there are a few scenes where things happen but It mainly feels as if this was more or less meant to plow the path for a future book which then should have a highlight. One part of the book, where Felurian appears, is even rather long and slow going, threatening to get outright boring.
So, was it worth the wait? Still an OK book, but it did not quite fulfill the high expectations I had after having read the first book.
