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The Slow Regard of Silent Things Hardcover – October 28, 2014

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Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy universe of The Kingkiller Chronicle, in this illustrated companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

“I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda 

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.
 
Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.
 
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance to see the world through Auri’s eyes. And it gives the reader a chance to learn things that only Auri knows....
 
In this book, Patrick Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full of secrets and mysteries,
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the story of a broken girl trying to live in a broken world.
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The best epic fantasy I read last year.... He’s bloody good, this Rothfuss guy.” —George R. R. Martin, New York Times-bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire
 
“Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is
deep and intricate and wondrous.” —Terry Brooks, New York Times-bestselling author of Shannara
 
"It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing...with
true music in the words." —Ursula K. LeGuin, award-winning author of Earthsea
 
"The characters are real and
the magic is true.” —Robin Hobb, New York Times-bestselling author of Assassin’s Apprentice
 
"
Masterful.... There is a beauty to Pat's writing that defies description." —Brandon Sanderson, New York Times-bestselling author of Mistborn
 
[Makes] you think he's inventing the genre, instead of reinventing it.” —Lev Grossman, New York Times-bestselling author of The Magicians
 
“This is
a magnificent book.” —Anne McCaffrey, award-winning author of the Dragonriders of Pern
 
The great new fantasy writer we've been waiting for, and this is an astonishing book." —Orson Scott Card, New York Times-bestselling author of Ender’s Game

“It's not the fantasy trappings (as wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but
what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.” —Tad Williams, New York Times-bestselling author of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
 
“An extremely immersive story set in
a flawlessly constructed world and told extremely well.” —Jo Walton, award-winning author of Among Others
 
“Hail Patrick Rothfuss!
A new giant is striding the land.” —Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning author of Wake
 
Fans of the epic high fantasies of George R.R. Martin or J.R.R. Tolkien will definitely want to check out Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind.” —NPR
 
Shelve The Name of the Wind beside The Lord of the Rings...and look forward to the day when it's mentioned in the same breath, perhaps as first among equals.” —The A.V. Club
 
“Rothfuss (who has already been compared to the likes of Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, and George R. R. Martin) is poised to be crowned
the new king of epic fantasy.” —Barnes & Noble
 
“I was
reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and J. R. R. Tolkien, but never felt that Rothfuss was imitating anyone.” —The London Times
 
“This
fast-moving, vivid, and unpretentious debut roots its coming-of-age fantasy in convincing mythology.” —Entertainment Weekly
 
“This breathtakingly epic story is
heartrending in its intimacy and masterful in its narrative essence.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
 
“Reminiscent in scope of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series...this
masterpiece of storytelling will appeal to lovers of fantasy on a grand scale.” —Library Journal (starred)

About the Author

Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel, The Name of the Wind, won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus’ Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International. He can be found at patrickrothfuss.com and on Twitter at @patrickrothfuss.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DAW; First Edition (October 28, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0756410436
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0756410438
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
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Patrick Rothfuss had the good fortune to be born in Wisconsin in 1973, where the long winters and lack of cable television encouraged a love of reading and writing.

After abandoning his chosen field of chemical engineering, Pat became an itinerant student, wandering through clinical psychology, philosophy, medieval history, theater, and sociology. Nine years later, Pat was forced by university policy to finally complete his undergraduate degree in English.

When not reading and writing, he teaches fencing and dabbles with alchemy in his basement.

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"...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...." Read more

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"...Auri is the bravest, most powerful, enchanting, wickedly delightful and real character I may have ever read...." Read more

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"...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..." Read more

"...Her thoughts are often lyrical, but also child-like and disjointed—following a logic all her own...." Read more

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Customers find the character Auri relatable and strong. They appreciate the accurate portrayal of her unique mind and voice. The book provides context and emotional connections to Auri, allowing readers to feel like they can hear her voice.

"...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...." Read more

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"...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...." Read more

"...this is a story about Auri, about getting inside her head and seeing how she operates - but not really much else...." Read more

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Beautiful and Broken
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Beautiful and Broken
I almost did not read this book. I almost did not read it because for a moment, I thought I knew the book, that I knew its name. Then I looked again and something wasn't right, it was all shivery and lonesome. I gave a quick kiss by way of apology and began to read and I grinned...In regard to those who did not appreciate and wonder at this visit to the Far Below Bottom of Things, did not appreciate these moments with Auri, as Auri... This story isn't for them. This is my story. This story is for people like me.This book was never represented as book 3 of The Kingkiller Chronicle. It never pretended to be such a thing. To be upset that it wasn't... To have expected it to be that book, is akin to looking at an exquisite sculpture and being upset that it isn't a brazen, beautiful painting.And for those who wish for the author to just publish the 3rd book already. I say they do not value doing things the proper way...This book will be placed on my bookshelf, a perch it is well suited to. And it will be read often with wonder, care and a grin that will grow all the wider with each visit.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014
    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!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014
    Strangely beautiful and bravely unorthodox.

    I hesitate to rate/review something so very experimental and artistic, but Rothfuss' work deserves discussion. The author does give fair warning in the Forward, proclaiming this is an odd book—one you may not want to read. (That's not just some reverse-psychology gimmick. The man is being honest!) If you haven't at least read The Name Of The Wind and share this reader's interest in the enigmatic character of Auri, you really shouldn't read this story. Not only will it not make sense, but you won't have the tender patience required to appreciate it.

    How is the book unusual? Lets start with the dialogue. That is to say...there is no dialogue. Readers begin, dwell, and end exclusively in the eccentric (and sometimes erratic) thoughts of a sprightly young woman who lives in almost complete self-imposed isolation. It could be said that this story has only one character, but that's not entirely true. Auri's disheveled state of mind is such that she spends her days touching, rearranging, and appeasing the collection of inanimate objects she seems to feel intensely responsible for.

    The best way to look at this story is in terms of a character study. The object of this study is a brilliant-yet-broken waif who teeters between near-clairvoyant insight and what this reader can only suppose to be tragic mental instability. From the very first page, you may note it takes some effort to adjust to Auri's mind. (Hint: Trying to make sense of her thought processes will only befuddle you. Just go with it.) Her thoughts are often lyrical, but also child-like and disjointed—following a logic all her own. Her behavioral patterns come off as a sort of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder meets frenetic Feng shui. And her gentle, well-intentioned nature is nothing short of endearing. This is a lovingly written character, unlike any this reader has encountered before. From very early on, I had the sense that she's special to Rothfuss. (The author's note at the back certainly backs this up.)

    I can't rightly explain it, but I have this nagging impression that Auri is sort of...the daughter of his heart. And with that in mind, I have to see it as an honor that Rothfuss was willing to share her with his readers.

    Side Note:
    Adding a vaguely Neil Gaiman sort of feel, this book includes an assortment of black and white illustrations. This reader found them to be a lovely bonus to the storytelling.

    My one dissatisfaction would be that we never come much closer to understanding WHY Auri is so broken. The nearest we come to a flashback into her past is the fleeting mention of Alchemy and Chemistry principles she was once taught.

    In The Name Of The Wind it became clear that Auri is not only reclusive in the extreme, but she has an aversion to sharing personal information. That's all fine and well. But to me, it seems dissonant to think a person—even a mentally ill person—could completely avoid sharing personal information with themselves. Granted you have things like Multiple-Personality Disorder that fragment the consciousness in the name of self-protection, etc...I'm certainly not arguing that this lack of backstory can and must be blamed on the unsoundness of Auri's mind. But it becomes clear that she isn't completely detached from whatever shattered her in the first place. (i.e. Auri at one point spends and entire day weeping, but we as the readers are never privileged with any explanation as to why.)

    Something awful must have happened to her—that much is clear. But this book was about showing Auri in her natural element, not explaining how she ended up there.
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  • Victor Laura
    5.0 out of 5 stars Una historia única con una prosa deliciosa
    Reviewed in Spain on October 3, 2023
    Este es uno de mis libros favoritos. La historia contempla varios días en la vida de Auri, uno de los personajes más peculiares de La crónica del asesino de reyes. Narra tanto su vida cotidiana como sus peripecias en lo que ella llama La Subrealidad mientras eso espera la visita de un amigo muy querido.

    La edición que compré es preciosa en tapa dura e ilustrada, en inglés, y además trae la firma del autor. Es una delicia disfrutar de la prosa de Patrick Rothfuss en version original.
  • Joanna Gawn, Author of The Lazuli Portals
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual and endearing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2020
    What an unexpected treat of a surprise! I hadn't read anything about this novella since I bought it a while back (two years, in fact!), so entered the world of Auri without any expectations of what I would discover. 

    Auri is such a sweet, pure character, with her half-made words and her interesting approach to her life below. As a writer, I loved the language (some of it reminiscent of a prose-poem). As a reader, the sheer Auri-ness that seeps out of every sentence means that reading the book feels like being on the threshold of a waking dream. 

    The fact that Rothfuss has allowed the story to be exactly what it needed to be (a bit like Auri's own approach to things!) also endeared me. In his Author Note, he states how weird this story is. And how it breaks all the rules of storytelling. And yet ... somehow it doesn't. Because Auri had a story to tell, and secrets to share (oh so gently, and in their right and perfect place), and this tale does exactly that, in its best and purest way. I don't think I'll ever read anything else quite like it. 

    I agree with Rothfuss that it will mostly appeal to a subset of readers - those who are happy to fall into quirky, careful, sweet tales where you have no need for it to be anything but a mindful meander through a world of "quite different". I hope you enjoy it if you decide to take that first step! 
  • Giuseppe Passa
    5.0 out of 5 stars bello
    Reviewed in Italy on January 8, 2020
    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.
  • Giulianna Carvalho de Castro Sene
    5.0 out of 5 stars O livro é ótimo!
    Reviewed in Brazil on May 16, 2017
    As capas do livro são muito bonitas e bem feitas, gostei mais dessa edição do que da edição britânica. A história é muito boa, é um dos meus livros preferidos. A versão original, em inglês, é ainda melhor do que a versão em português.
  • S. Hardy
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you wondered how Auri thought ...
    Reviewed in Japan on October 12, 2023
    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.