(Part 2) Top products from r/KingkillerChronicle

Yep. Quite a lot of people it seems.

I'll see if I can find some of the ones I've read...

Don't really remember where I found them at the moment.

EDIT: They are probably among the 1113 reviews here, but I'm not really awake yet, so you'll have to dig through it to find the funny ones if you're interested.



>It's about Hello Kitty with OCD ...
... except that would be less vapid and tedious.

-Greek - 26. november 2014-



>Unless you want to read about a little person with OCD, alone, moving this and that about and washing all the time, don't buy it

>I pre-ordered and thought this was the Kingkiller Chronicle 3. I have been very excited to read it! Boy was I disappointed. I am glad he (Patrick Rothfuss) got self fulfillment from writing it but, I lost my money! It was well written but, what a snoozer. Thank God for a few pictures, kept me from completely dozing off.

-CA Shopper - 19. november 2014-



>Train wreck

>There was nothing to it ,it Just rambled on and on no plote .I thougt it woud be the third day of The Kingkiller Chronicles it las not just a wast of time and money

-hoyt sanford - 16. november 2014



>This was a huge disappointment. The whole story seemed it was written by a drunken meth head on LSD. Don't waste your money

-beauon - 16. november 2014-



>Don't buy

>Wow, is this a joke? This was not another book in this series, but rather a boring short story. If this had beeen a $2 fan fiction, maybe it would have been worth it. But this looked like the next book in the series. This was a complete rip off, and I am sad I bought it.

-Boston Parenton - 14. november 2014-



>I preordered this thinking is was the next book in the series. It's not. In fact, it's total garbage. I'd desperately like a refund.

-Brett Fischer - 13. november 2014-




To be clear, I loved it.
It was as lovely as the moon, and I cought myself smiling with the whole of my everything while reading it.

Whenever I needed a pick me up at work I would take a bathroom break and fall into Auri's delightful little world. Even the darker parts just made me appreciate her more.

As someone who loves both Rothfuss and Hobbs, and did not care for Locke Lamora, I recently enjoyed Carol Berg's Lighthouse duet, the prose is excellent and it has ideas and themes similar to KKC, and is about a magical cartographer. Carol Berg is a talented and underrated author and definitely worth a try if you are tired of the same five common recommendations.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XEC3US/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000ZJUOV6/ref=pd_aw_sim_351_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=02HJ2G1EZ18AE1AC9Q1J

You're looking for stuff on the craft of writing, the giants of which you've already listed. Literary analysis doesn't teach craft directly, it's a critical and academic approach to understanding a book like a specimen of culture (in other words, go to university if you want to learn that bit!).

If you want to learn about poetry first read a lot of poetry and soak it in. Everything in the books is descended from the Romantics and Shakespeare, so read all those (flippant, sorry. But you do have a lot of reading ahead of you if you're serious about this) but unlike high school try not to see them in a vacuum - you get a lot more if you understand why they were writing, who for, what was on their mind (lit. analysis erk!). His sonnets, Shelley, Keats, Rossetti, Byron (I'd add Swinburne's 'Garden of Proserpine' because I'm an emo and cos he was a ginger who couldn't get his shit together either).

Meter is easy to learn! It's the rest of the tool kit that's hard. The best single book I've read on it, the one that got me, is Stephen Fry's https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within/dp/0099509342

Study Tai Chi or some form of moving meditation. There are types of yoga that flow and once you have the sequence down, allow you to still your mind. There are types of martial arts that teach amazing focus and how to quiet the mind. It takes patience, perseverance and humility to learn these things and to apply them to the world outside of practice.

I studied a meditative form of Chinese martial arts for over 7 years...the benefits continue long after I quit practicing. It is not magic nor mysticism, but focus and discipline.

I also found a book that goes into some detail about training the mind in a similar fashion as Kvothe did. Wisdom of the Mystic Masters by Joseph Weed. I have yet to finish it, but the mind exercises are pretty cool. He goes into 3 different types of mind exercises: Observation, Concentration and Meditation.

I guess the point is, there are plenty of things you can do to train your mind, but you have to do it, not just sit and cruise reddit...

How many times have you read the books?

You could be falsely assuming the cause is your quick reading and not that you've only read the available literature once instead of three times.

I think understanding that there's more to be found and a desire to look for it should be enough to slow you down. If you find yourself zoning out and reading in a more skim-like manner, go back a few paragraphs to what you remember reading last and start over.

Or if you really want a good resource, get How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. It's about reading and reading closely and when the two are appropriate and whatnot. Adler was a great man. He's the one who also spearheaded/managed the Great Books of the Western World organization/movement. Not everything he recommends needs to be applied but it's good to know how to (as someone learned thinks you should) properly read closely when you want to.

For anyone else who really loves the "stories within stories' format, I definitely recommend the Orphan Tales books (Book 1 here and Book 2 here) by Catherynne M Valente.

not sure about those, but I bought the UK covers and they look amazing on my shelf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0575081406

The Black Company Series by Glenn Cook first three books found here

Really good read, no real similarites between them and NoTW, WMF, except for a certain irreverence. But could be my favorite fantasy series.

I've got roughly 3lb's of chessex dice; I use this to store them all at this point. But thank you for the offer. :)

Introduction to Logic is actually highly recommended. Or you can find a free introduction, called ForallX.

Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber

You can either get the Great Book of Amber (books 1-10)
https://www.amazon.ca/Great-book-Amber-Roger-Zelazny/dp/0380809060

or just start with Nine Princes in Amber
http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Princes-Amber-Roger-Zelazny/dp/1935138197

No, but funnily enough you're the second person to ask that.

It's from here.

edit: Just realised you're both people.

Just order it online from Amazon?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tak-Beautiful-Game-University-English/dp/B078RYBYH4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tak&qid=1564745423&s=gateway&sr=8-1

The Farseer Trilogy - The Liveship Traders Trilogy - The Tawny Man Trilogy - The Dragon Keepers by Robin Hobb.

10/10

Fantasy

Four trilogies that are loosely related. The overall arc of the stories are basic fantasy tropes (eg, royal bastards, being trained to be an assassin, magic, etc.) turned inside out into something very original. Hobb's characterization is awesome - her characters are very human and make many mistakes (and subsequently pay for them). Very solid prose, at times poetic. A lot of philosophical insights. The Liveship Traders has a couple of main characters from the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies as secondary characters. The Dragon Keepers trilogy has some of the main characters from Liveship Traders as secondary characters.

Link to Assassin's Apprentice, the first book of the first trilogy.

January 21 to be precise...

... For now

The Hyperion and Ilium books by Dan Simmons both have the kind of narrative weight that KKC does, though both are a hardish Sci-Fi.

I'd recommend The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It has a similar style to KKC but is more action-packed.

1. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
   
2. 8/10
   
3. low magic, intricate plotting and subterfuge, thieves!
   
4. Interesting setting, decent characters, intricate and interesting plot.
   
5. Amazon | GoodReads

Republic of Thieves maybe? Scott Lynch is the author. It's the first one that came to mind. https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Thieves-Gentleman-Bastards/dp/0553588966