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A name of the wind6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() “It was night” would be boring in the extreme, but simply adding “again” creates an impression of time passing. The first sentence is also pretty clever. This intriguing opening makes the reader wonder how silence could be made of three parts. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. ![]() The Name of the Wind opens with a prologue titled “A Silence of Three Parts” – which seems a little on the nose considering the opening lines. Be warned: this article is long, even for a critique post. Also, to keep things interesting in a book with few wordcraft problems, we skip forward more and more as we go, covering the first seven chapters. While I usually record my first reactions to a book, this post covers material I’ve already read, though it’s mostly faded from memory. What will win: this award-winning, best-selling, critically acclaimed book, or my dislike of practically everything? Read on to see! You asked me to critique The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, so here we are. ![]()
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