Rothfussians discussion

...or days there are exceptionally long. The audiobook for WMF clocks in at 43 hours long. Even if they sleep very little, that's two days worth of narrative :)

I think the three days of story telling was just a nice way of packaging the story, but wasn't meant to be factually consistent with other things. Despite what the author might say interviews, I'm sure it's just a detail he didn't think people would bring up so much.

And of course the book isn't Kvothe's word for word telling of the story either. People just aren't that good story tellers, and their voices begin to hurt after a while. Besides, we've heard Kvothe tell stories within the story itself, and the style of those differ enough from the tone that the main prose of the book is written in.

The 'three days of story telling' was a neat way of setting the stage, and mapping out the three books of the series, and for that, I think it fits excellently into the fantasy genre. I, for one, am thrilled that he structured things this way, though I suspect I'll have to wait for the third book before the Waystone Inn interruptions redeem themselves...I find them boring overall.

Hm. How much of it is Kvothe's dictation vs. present day description? A lot of that would happen faster than it could be described, I think.

Ooooh- also, do we know if the days are 24 hours? The week is different. o_O

Well, if they count time from when the sun rises, to when it rises again the next day, then yes. It just seems like a good way to keep time.
The Fae realm does not count days, I think, if that's what you mean.

And I look forward to the interruptions. Mostly because it gives me a window to look through into Kvothe from a different perspective.
It shows me when he weeps, when he has to stop and think, when he can't bear to go on anymore until he regains his bearings. It brings me closer to Bast, and describes the brotherly concern between mentor and student.
Plus, I'm waiting for the incident with the Scrael to develop.

You can tell in the Interludes that Kvothe has lost his luster. That he is no longer the strong young man that he was before. And I want to watch him lose himself within his story and make the mistakes that could bring him back to his former magnificence.

Why Campbell, I do believe you have aspirations to be a writer.

I'm waiting for Kvothe to break. I don't know how it will be accomplished. I don't feel like the typical, drawn out process of grinding away a man's personality could possibly fit into a single book, so I'm expecting some sort of epic cataclysm where he renounces his Name. And I desperately want to see him reclaim it.

That's what I want to happen. I want him to find that within himself, reclaim himself, and go through the rough, physically and mentally taxing process of rebuilding himself into what he once was. I want him to find a memory too painful to get through, I want him to lose his control in front of Bast and Chronicler, too.
But I also think Bast is bisexual and Auri could totally fall in love with Kvothe, and although I'm still not sure about the first, I can almost be assured that the second isn't possible, considering that she doesn't have the mental capacity for that anymore....