Recently, I picked up a book by Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. This is a side-story about one of the characters in his “Kingkiller Chronicles” and I had previously read the first of that series, The Name of the Wind, back in about 2007. I had also gotten the second book, The Wise Man’s Fear, as a gift once it was available. But I never read it because I really wanted to wait until the whole series was finished. I really hate it when I start reading a series only to find that the author has not yet finished it. Often by the time the next installment comes out, I have forgotten everything I read in the previous one.
This little book was a pleasure to read – an unusual story, no doubt; and perhaps puzzling if one had not read the novels – but it definitely inspired me to re-read the The Name of the Wind (since I remembered very little of it). The Slow Regard of Silent Things only took me a day to read (5/17 – 5/18/15). Then I immediately picked up The Name of the Wind on 5/19/15 and I finished that on 5/29).
This is such a wonderful story and I now remembered that when I read it before I was very distressed that I had to stop when the story so obviously was not finished. But this time I got to continue, and the second book, The Wise Man’s Fear, was every bit as good as the first one.
I finished this book yesterday.
AND – once again I wanted to scream and cry because the story is still not ended and the third book is not yet out!
Oh well, there are plenty more books to read. As everyone knows, who has read Rothfuss, he does take his TIME. For updates, it may be worth checking out his website: www.patrickrothfuss.com.