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Well, I finally finished this today. I sort of gave my review in the what are you reading thread, but I'll repeat it here...
I rated this book a 3 of 5 stars in Library Thing. Basically, that means it was not a bad book and had some good parts... but nothing great, not a book I would recommend if someone said "what's a great Fantasy book that I should read".
The book started a bit slow and it was disjointed. It seemed to come together a bit when the chronicler got there and Kovothe said he would tell him his story.
But, to me the book dragged here... it was a bit slow. And while there was a bit of interesting stuff it never really grabbed me. The time when he lived on the streets in the city were just a bit boring to me.
Once he got to the University in the story I think it got really good. The interaction with the Masters during his admissions was quite funny. The bit about when Kovothe took over Heme's class was great and moved very well.
However, how stupid do you have to be to realize you don't take a candle into a place with nothing but books and paper dust. I guess that was to show how naive he was then, but come on, really? He even knew the guy had it out for him, people don't change their spots that quickly.
Needless to say I will not be listening to the rest of Kovothe's story.
BOb
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