Money, Money, Money

55. Name of The Wind

You know when you read a book and you think: Man, I wish I had done that!  Well, clearly Patrick Rothfuss has done it too.  He read The Lord of the Rings, The Narnia books, and other “Geeky” things (he calls himself a geek, not me – especially since being a geek is the new cool kid thing to do.)  Then he spent seven-some odd years writing this book and what ever is to come next since I wouldn’t even call this a first book in a trilogy as much a first half of a book that is being published as a trilogy, or series, because that is what we do now.  It is worse than a cliffhanger ending; it is like pages fell out.

All of it just felt like it was trying to be something instead of organically becoming something new.  I felt like he needed to stretch a bit more, show a bit more, work a bit more.  Basically write more.  But not print every word he wrote!

The thing that really got on my nerves was how often he brought up money.  The author created his own currency system (good on oh-so-creative you!) and brought up, over and over again, how the narrator got, spent, and was constantly in need of more money.  The problem with that is that it is a story, so while you can say someone is poor you can’t constantly dwell on it because it doesn’t really matter – it is all fake!  And dwelling on it takes me out of the story; because really, is he going to get kicked out of the pretend school because he doesn’t have enough pretend money to pay for it?  No, because there are 400 more pages and, since this is all told as a flash back, you already told us he went to school!  Clearly, it got to the point that I couldn’t think about anything else.

Anyway, there were parts of the story that were intriguing but I don’t think I care enough about them to continue on to the other books.