THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS

I love love love the Kingkiller Chronicles and this book is just as satisfying even though it doesn't take the story forward.

Quick easy read.. Gets a little slow in the middle but the end is great. The book suggests a lot about Auri and her past

Absolutely beautiful. Such liquid writing. Such depth.

It's a little book full of eye-catching artworks.

As soon as I opened the book the pages fell off as if they were just kept there. Very disappointed. I was looking forward to read it today.

Check my video for review on book quality... Good book for a collector... Paper quality is thicker and it is soft binding

The cost of the book is too high for the quality of it is very poor, it almost felt like a 100 Rs book sold on the streets. People who consider buying it and ready to invest 400+ bugs on it... I highly suggest you to visit a store physically crossword or landmark anything and get it because they charge you the same but surely will provided you a better quality paperback.

Author states you may not like this book even if you are a Fan of his books..! Love his other Books..!

This is a look into how Auri, a damaged former-student at The University whom Kvothe visits and plays music for goes about getting by. She's amazing is half the answer, she's pretty damaged is another piece, and her head voices/ thoughts are helpful/ bothersome by turns. If you thought the other books were interesting and felt immersive in this world, well it seems like you're going for a free ride-along trip in the world under the University. And I mean world. As a former anthropology student, I'd give a good chunk of an arm or leg to do a dig in this setting, I'd love to explore this half-flooded, part crushed remnant of disastrous upheaval buried under the city in the books Kvothe stars in. That compelling and mentally pictured. You feel like you have Visited, but didn't get to Stroll as much as you might have wanted to.

come da prefazione dello stesso autore, sono contenta che finalmente ci sia un libro scritto anche per me. Quelli scritti per altre persone sono già tanti. Da leggere se e solo se si sono già letti gli altri 2 libri di the kingkiller chronicle.

I loved this novella. So much beautifully written prose, some lovely instances if delightful, meaningful word play. It's so nice to be able to see parts of yourself in a character and for her to make you feel better about life, to realise that it's ok. For an inspiring read, full of love, wonder and beauty, open this book!

This does include spoilers. Like everyone who purchased this book, I'm eagerly awaiting the third installment of the Kingkiller Chronicles. Saw this and thought: "Hey- a book by Patrick Rothfuss, why not?!" I was definitely put off by his warning that it wasn't a good book, and I probably wouldn't like it, so, I shouldn't get excited, and maybe shouldn't even read it, just in case I am disappointed. But I'd already bought it at this point so I wasn't going to NOT read it. Besides, Jane Austen assumed everyone would hate her character Emma, but we all know THAT isn't quite how it panned out. Anyhow, I digress. I'm the sort of reader who enjoys a thought-through plot line. But I need more than that to actually get into a book. I need believable, consistent, relate-able characters. Rothfuss gave me that in his other books. He gave me complicated, intricate, REAL characters that I fell completely in love with. Auri, however, confused the *&#$ out of me. She was just.... inexplicable. She fit into the story, don't get me wrong, but I didn't understand her. I certainly didn't relate to her. It didn't really matter though, certainly didn't affect my view of Rothfuss' writing or Kvothe's story at all. I was hoping to get to see Kvothe in this short story, as I'm sure many of you are/were... which may explain Rothfuss' hesitation to even publish this book since Kvothe is never physically present. There is one character. One. And she's perfect. I felt like the luckiest fly on the wall to see a week of Auri's life in her Underthing. She knows she has 7 days until He comes to visit, and you get to see her preparing for it like it's Christmas or something. It's adorable. She's trying to find a gift but nothing is QUITE right. God, I loved this story. Not only was the writing exquisite, the verbiage was so uniquely suited that now I want to hear Auri describe the entire world, instead of just her own. I can't possibly imagine being bored reading this book. I can't possibly imagine putting it down. In it's own way, it's better to me than his other works. Auri is so complex and so different and so refreshing. She's broken. And she goes through her life fixing things. Little things. Little, insignificant things. Things that, in anyone else's observation, don't need fixed. It's frustrating at first. What is she doing? Why wouldn't she do *this* in that situation. Why would she almost drown to dredge up trash from the bottom of a freezing pool of water? Because that is the proper way of things. Everything has a name. Objects, spaces, rooms, chemical reactions. If something doesn't have a name she feels sorry for it. Because He gave her a name, and with that name she isn't as lost or as lonely. The name He gave her is her constant positive throughout her bizarre ups and downs. Every day has a type. A doing day or a making day... and Auri knows because she can feel what sort of day it is. The moon has it's own personality. Sometimes she needs to avoid stepping in the moonlight because it's in a bad mood. As she describes it, you can see the moon she means, even though she uses words that don't exist. She's so clever and resourceful! But you know she doesn't even have to be resourceful. She just is... because that's the proper way of things. Even when she wants something to be different, she won't break out of her own definition of what is proper. Even though there is no one there to see her, no one there to hold her responsible, no one there to chastise her. She's one of the strongest characters you'll ever meet. She doesn't think well of herself. She forgets to eat. She berates herself for being selfish. But she thinks even less of the people who don't understand the proper way of things. Throughout the story you see her warring with herself. In our world she would be termed bipolar, and autistic, and maybe even schizophrenic. But she's created a life that works for her. And she focuses all her energy on what she perceives to be the happiness of objects in her care. She ignores her own needs. She won't change or bend the proper way of things. The only time she'll step out of her self-imposed rules is for Him. Even when I'm screaming for her to take some food from a full larder she finds herself in, I'm secretly hoping she won't. That she'll stick to her own rules, and be rewarded for doing things the proper way. She does everything in her power to keep her Underthing to herself, but then creates a safe space down there for Him too. She knows the name of Alchemy. Of Chemistry. But she won't use it. She won't bend the world. You just get this feeling that she's broken from a loss. Broken from doing something that now, through caring for the world in the proper way, she is doing penance for. But when she knows she needs the third and final gift for Him, it's okay for her to use her power to bend the world a bit. She's connected to Him. Like she's connected to everything. She's amazing. I could seriously write a book about how much I like this book. I'm going to re-read the others just to re-visit her character from a whole new perspective. I can see how some people won't like this book. It requires a lot of interpretation. It requires a lot of patience. It requires a desire to UNDERSTAND a complex character. If you don't care to learn about Auri, don't read it. If you're fascinated by the world Rothfuss has created and want to see a whole other aspect of it through the eyes of an incredible, albeit very strange, little girl, it's definitely for you!

As the author forewarns, this is not a great place to start reading his work, but if you’re spending 10 years waiting for book 3, well, there is a lot of value in reading through this. It is not a “usual” book - no traditional hero/heroines, or plots or great tasks to be achieved. But it does communicate an awful lot as to the value in understanding and valuing perspectives, and how something or someone (in the story’s world or ours) that is broken or cracked or damaged or different from one perspective isn’t necessarily wrong or useless. It’s just a different way of seeing and understanding and acting. That’s probably what’s wrong with our world today actually. Equally as valuable a read is the rather raw and touching authors note at the end.