The Slow Regard of Silent Things Hardcover – October 28, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon’s Patrick Rothfuss Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0756410436 | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Slow Regard of Silent Things – October 28, 2014
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- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: DAW Hardcover (October 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0756410436
- ISBN-13: 978-0756410438
- Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2 in Books > science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic
- #50 in Books > literature & Fiction > United States
If your usual sleep aid has stopped working for you, buy this book! It will not fail you.
I truly hate writing this one star review as I absolutely love the KKC series and want to support Rothfuss in continuing his promising career. But this was awful. To call this a “story” is a flat out lie. There was no story. It was just 150+ pages of rambling on about a week in the life of the most overrated character in the series. I know people love Auri because there is something mysterious about her. In the first two books, I found her to be interesting too, but not nearly as much as most. So when a book completely devoted to her character was coming out, I was slightly hesitant but I thought I would still read it to get a glimpse of her view of the world. But now I wish I hadn’t. She was more interesting to me before I read this. I only wish I could unread it.
It has nothing to do with the cost of the book, as most people have complained about. I would pay double this amount for a book half as long if it were interesting. I’ve been following Rothfuss’s blog for a while and was really looking forward to it, despite his warnings that this was different. I even pre-ordered it, which I’ve never done for any book. I really don’t mind it being different, and I actually think it should be. But seriously, where’s the plot? Doesn’t a story have to have a plot?
I can summarize the entire novella in a single paragraph (not a spoiler, just a silly interpretation of how the book sounds in my head after reading it): Auri wakes up. She washes her feet. She looks around the cave. She finds an old broken gear at the bottom of a deep puddle. She puts it next to her bed. No, she doesn’t like it there. She puts it on the windowsill. No no, that’s worse.
This is a book that can be read in one sitting. Many reviewers are already forming opinions and rightfully saying people will probably either love this book or hate this book. It is very unlike any other book I’ve read. It flows like a poem in a lot of ways, enticing the reader with simultaneously straightforward and indirect descriptions of Auri’s underworld. It is a wordy novel, and grossly detailed about rooms and introspection and as others have said, inanimate objects. For fans of Pat, you know that the world is not all that it seems and shouldn’t be looked at with a passing eye. Objects speak without words, names carry great power, and sometimes the traditional way of things really is the best.
If you enjoy painting pictures in your mind as you read, you will enjoy getting carried away as the book weaves this twisting and turning path through the depths. In the end, as readers, we end up connecting with the Auri in a deeper, albeit expected, level. However, if you really don’t like to see phrases repeated in a slightly OCD manner “Auri washed her face. She washed her hands and feet.” and don’t enjoy lots of environmental descriptions – well this book is going to drag a lot for you. There is no other easy way to say it. If you look closely though, Pat gets creative with the flow of his narrative and the words he chooses. At times it seems like he couldn’t choose and so did the right and proper thing of using three descriptive short sentences to get his point across. “The wide and welcome path to Black Door stretched before her like a dark black open mouth. A maw. A maul.” This fits the character Auri, the author, and the flow of the novel fairly well. Correctly. Honestly.
Most of us pick up a book for that interesting world and engrossing story driven plot.
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