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Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 3 de enero de 2016

Es un pequeño canto a este curioso personajillo del mundo de Kvothe. Como se explica en la contraportada, no es sobre Kvothe si no sobre uno de los amigos de este personaje. Es un pequeño cuento sobre Auri, esta personilla que vive bajo el mundo de a Universidad y es peculiar....
En estas páginas le lector vive con Auri y siente con ella sus miedos, sus ilusiones, sus manías...Cuanto mejor ver como Auri se las arregla para vivir a su manera que no encerrada en un manicomio! Y cuantas personas preferirían que se las dejase vivir así, en un mundo particular en lugar de en una institución. A mí me ha encantado este cuento, está estupendamente escrito, se lee casi como música.

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Kevin Roig-Francoli Gonzalez

Lo compre pensando que era la 3a parte de las crónicas...

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 4 de septiembre de 2017

Como historia está bien pero no tienen ni punto de comparación con la historia original, un spin off entretenido que leí con gusto pero no reeleré.

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A. Purroy

Beautiful but short

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 19 de noviembre de 2014

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I like the Kingkiller Chronicle and its characters, specially Auri.

This novella describes a week in the life of Auri. We see her world and what she likes and worries for, and we also get a glimpse at her true power. An amazing character and a well-written story.

My only small complaint is that the story is very short. It is certainly not expensive, but it is almost something Rothfuss could have published for a charity event more than a serious publication.

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Una novelita curiosa y especial

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 23 de noviembre de 2014

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No es lo que te esperas. No se parece a los dos libros principales de la trilogía. No hay diálogos, no hay acción... Es simplemente la descripción de varios días en la vida de Auri. Ofrece una mirada a su personalidad y algunas pistas sobre su pasado. Muy bien escrito y con unas ilustraciones preciosas.

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Pedro Camacho

Very good

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 6 de mayo de 2015

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The book itself is very beatiful. The story... ah, the story is different. It's about a girl carrying and bringing things, that's true. But it's much more. If you understand what I true name is, then this is your story.

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The Slow Regard of silent Things

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 23 de noviembre de 2014

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This is somewhat different from The Name of The Wind & The Wise Man's Fear, nevertheless I enjoyed it. I liked the way inanimate objects were portrayed. A quick, good read.

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Robin Snyder

Auri is 1 part crazy, 1 part genius and 1 part adorable. Awesome Character Study.

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 28 de octubre de 2014

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4.5 filled with secrets stars

I have wondered for two books now more about two very specific characters Auri and Bast and does this ever deliver on Auri. I longed to know more about what Auri does in the Underthing, how she ended up there and what else goes through her mind. One of my favorite things in The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear were Auri's interactions with Kvothe things like:

"I have an apple that thinks it's a pear. And a bun that thinks it's a cat. And a lettuce that thinks it's a lettuce."
"It's a clever lettuce, then."
"Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it's a lettuce?"
"Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
"Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too."

I really wanted to get in her head and see what really is happening in there because I find her absolutely fascinating. Well, Rothfuss heard my wish and put me inside Auri's head for an enthralling 159 pages.

Warnings:
DO NOT read this until you have read at least The Name of the Wind, although I would recommend reading both TNotW and The Wise Man's Fear first.
DO NOT expect see Kvothe because he isn't here. It is all Auri all the time and it is enough.
DO NOT expect this to be a normal story because it isn't. I think this falls into more of a character study. Auri is an interesting character, enough to carry an entire story like this, enough to follow around like a reality TV show but better than a reality TV show because she is far more interesting.

I LOVE AURI

She is so different. She pretty much lives in the steam tunnels under a school and so far we have only seen her through Kvothe's eyes. She is a wild, feral thing and seems sorta like a skittish creature in many ways. But that is just the very tip of the iceberg, she is so much more.

Right away I was drawn into the way she sees her world and the way she wanders through it. Is she crazy or is she more in tune to the world around her. She has actual relationships of sorts with inanimate objects. The way she sees them they are almost sentient.

--- "Skipping close, she saw a crystal had fallen from the chandelier to lay unbroken on the floor. It was a lucky thing, and brave. She picked it up and put it in the pocket that didn't have the key inside. They would only fuss if they were put together."

We get to follow Auri through a week in the Underthing as so goes through what she believes is her purpose there. She is also looking for the gift to bring Kvothe when she knows they will meet. It is such an interesting journey to see that world through her eyes. Nothing is mundane not even a belt buckle.

-- "Might the buckle be for him? That would be a good beginning to the day. A nice thing to have settled early on, his gift all ready with his visit days away.
Auri eyed the buckle sharply. Was it a proper gift for him? He was a tangled sort. And he was much hidden, too. Nodding, she reached out to touch the cool dark metal.
But no. It didn't suit him. She should have known. He was not a one for fastening. For holding closed. Neither was he dark. Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold."

Auri is smart, so much smarter than I expected. She gathers and coerces and makes silent deals with inanimate objects. She seems to intuitively pick up on signs and there meanings she knows something that is coming and she is getting ready for it. Also there is a hint to her power that I really wasn't expecting.

-- "She closed her eyes. She drew her shoulders back. She took a slow and steady breath.
There was a tension in the air. A weight. A wait. There was no wind. She did not speak. The world grew stretched and tight.
Auri drew a breath and opened up her eyes. Auri was urchin small. Her tiny feet upon the stone were bare.
Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world.
And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her."

This left me wondering though what will become of Kvothe in the next book. It seems that Auri has a hint of it and a plan. I'm really excited to see them together again.

I think this will be a love it or hate it story for most. Since it isn't traditional I can see why some might not like it. But I enjoyed the character study of Auri. I swam around in her head and learned a bit of how she made something that should have been like a sewer of sorts into a breathtakingly magical place full of hidden chambers and unexpected treasures. This is why I fall on the side of LOVE.

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Wrennie Foxeyes

A very unusual book - thoughtful and exceptional

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 12 de diciembre de 2017

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I bought this book because I already own Patrick Rothfuss's two fantasy novels, which I enjoyed tremendously, and hope the third book in the trilogy will soon be published! I checked on Amazon to see if there was any hint of when number 3 might be available - he doesn't seem to have written it yet - but while looking I saw this book, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, which features a character from the Kingkiller series, Auri.

This book is very unusual. It follows no typical format and ignores all the formulas for writing a fiction story. It unfolds very slowly - hence, no doubt, its having 'slow' in its title. The author's other books are bursting with action and adventures, and brimming over with interesting and in some cases unusual characters. This book is totally different. Auri is the only character, although she spends a lot of time thinking about another character from whom she's expecting a visit - we never meet this character nor even discover the character's name.

The 'characters' in the book, apart from Auri, are inanimate objects - the 'silent things' of the title. Auri invests them with thoughts and feelings and her (presumably self-appointed) task is to take care of them all and make sure they are always in the right place. It is Auri herself who decides where the right place is and sometimes the right place changes and the 'silent thing' is carried elsewhere.

The book unfolds so slowly as we follow Auri's daily care of the silent things. Auri lives to a very strict set of principles, which require her to be completely unselfish. She lives very frugally and takes great pleasure in ordering her solitary world. As the book progresses, the reader starts to understand more about Auri, even though nothing is explained by the author. We have no back story for Auri. She simply 'is'.

Almost all of the book is gentle. Almost all of it is unhurried. The reader needs to drop any idea of this book becoming an adventure or a love story or of there being a denouement that will explain everything. There are no explanations. It's left to the reader to make of Auri what they will.

Somehow the book wove a sort of spell over me. It slowed me down too - life just prior to Christmas is hectic and rather rushed. Auri shares an aura of peacefulness and rest with the reader. I think there is a moral in this tale, though I can't tell if the author intended one. I think it's about simplicity, and being satisfied with simplicity, while still remaining vigilant about the needs of one's environment and the things in it. I can't say that this is what the author intended, quite possibly not! I suspect that everyone who reads this book will draw their own conclusions about the character and the place where Aruri lives and the purpose of the narrative.

Being very drawn to language and linguistics, I was delighted by the words that Auri uses - many of them would never be found in a dictionary of the English language! But they fit, and their meaning is clear from their sound and shape - a sort of playing with onomatopoeia to express the truths of Auri's world and the things that are in it.

The book is an enigma. It has none of the tricks authors are supposed to use to make the reader keen to keep turning the pages. There are no cliff hangers, although Auri does have a few obstacles to overcome. I suppose it's the very strangeness of the book that keeps one turning the pages. It's 'strange' in a thoughtful way, an attractive way, and it doesn't remind me of anything else I've ever read! I'd say it's a book for winter hibernation.

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Jeryn Coldfire

A Story for Broken People

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 2 de noviembre de 2014

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Patrick Rothfuss does an awful lot of apologizing in both the foreword and endnote to THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS.

The foreword begins by telling you that you might not want to buy this book, and if you haven’t read THE NAME OF THE WIND and THE WISE MAN’S FEAR, you might be better off starting there. This is probably fair — I think you can enjoy SLOW REGARD without having read Rothfuss’s previous two novels, but I think the context those novels provide is important. In the endnote, he goes into even more detail, describing a conversation he had with an advance reader who liked the book. Rothfuss responds by explaining why no one else would feel the same way:

“You see, people expect certain things from a story,” I explained. “You can leave out one or two if you step carefully, but you can’t ditch all of them. … People are going to read this and be pissed.”

“Let those other people have their normal stories,” Vi said. “This story isn’t for them. This is my story. This story is for people like me.”

On the one hand, Rothfuss’s warning is fair — if you purchase SLOW REGARD to see the plot from THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLES advance, you’ll be disappointed. This is a very quiet character study stretched out over 176 pages. It’s a chronicle of a week in Auri’s life, with no dialogue, no action scenes, nothing but the lonely days of a broken girl who has pieced herself back together as best she can.

On the other hand, I wish Rothfuss and others would take a lesson from his story’s protagonist and simply allow things to be what they are. No, this isn’t the third KINGKILLER novel. It’s not a tale of adventure. It’s not even told in first-person. It is what it is — a glimpse into the life of Auri, perhaps the most curious character in the series.

Rothfuss’s tremendous care with words is on full display here as Auri’s days are spent searching the Underthing for abandoned knick knacks and supplies. She ascribes character attributes to each object, placing great importance on finding the proper place for everything, yet firmly rebuking herself any time she begins to think about how these things might serve her. She takes great joy in many simple things, such as the food and items she scavenges, or the soap she makes, but at the same time we get a peek behind the pain. This is a character who spends much of the story finding the proper place for the items she has collected, considering and discovering their “true” nature, but she seems to know that she herself is broken, and that makes her lonely. It’s a side of her I don’t remember seeing in THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLES, and I’m glad this story gave us a glimpse of that side of her.

At times, it’s heart-breaking to see the things that cause her the greatest panic — a moment of fear when she hears a sound and believes she may be discovered, her misery when a skunk comes and eats some of her precious few belongings, the times when she weeps herself to sleep. Auri is a broken little girl with no one to protect her, and even if Kvothe cares for her, it’s clear that he is of far more import to her life than she is to him, as she spends much of the week considering what presents she might present to him when next he comes to play his lute outside the Underthing, and seems to have scheduled her entire week around when she guesses he will visit.

As Rothfuss says in his endnote, this story is for all the slightly broken people out there. It’s about a small girl living by herself, who just wants to carve a small niche in the world for herself, someplace quiet and out of the way, so she can be safe. I think anyone who has ever felt small and alone and afraid can relate.

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Stream of consciousness writing isn't for everyone

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 11 de julio de 2018

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I read this short book in one sitting, and then I sat down and thought about it for more than an hour. I asked myself, "Did I like this book?" It took me a while to decide. It is a very different kind of book. People who say it has no plot are wrong; it's just a very different plot -- a fuzzy-around-the-edges plot that takes a backseat to character development. It's the story of a week in Auri's life as she prepares for "his visit" and her need to provide a gift for him, a gift acquired in the proper way ... the novel has a beginning, middle and end -- and a conflict for Auri -- but stream of consciousness writing is unusual and lacks strong points to write out on a Triangle of Action for your 9th grade English teacher, who would expect plenty of points in Rising Action and some definite Denouement.

However, for me, the backbone of a good novel is good characters. Characters with depth, characters with strength, interesting characters. I read once that romance novels -- not that this is a romance novel -- are successful if they make the reader fall in love with the man and/or want to be the woman. Stretching that point, I think a novel is successful if you'd want to live in that world or befriend that character. If you find yourself creating new situations in that world. Auri doesn't fit this mold ... no one would want to live in her world and certainly wouldn't want to be her; regardless, I adore her. Though she's highly unusual, and she has tremendous character. She is lovable, pitiable, and very real to the reader.

Practical Me kept asking questions about her life. Where does she get food? Where does she go to the bathroom? What's going to happen when she runs out of drops for Foxen? And the biggest questions of all: how'd she get here, why does she stay, and doesn't anyone in her family come looking for her? These topics are basically ignored, although one single sentence -- a sentence that stopped me in my tracks -- gives us a very strong hint about what "broke her" and sent her into the Underthing. But this isn't a novel for Practical Me; that is, it isn't about answers -- it's about experience. Specifically, it's about the experience of being different, thinking differently, and being mentally ill -- in that, it made me think of the excellent novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

Auri is mentally ill. Definitely mentally ill. I found myself asking, "Is she Schizophrenic or Bi-polar?" Her actions could indicate either one. She is absolutely suffering from OCD ... massive, massive case of OCD, but that alone wouldn't have sent her into the world of the Underthing. She seems pleased with her odd, lonely life interacting with inanimate objects.

In the end, I decided I do like this novel. I'm going to read it again in a couple days, and I expect to get more from it the second time now that I know what to expect. The language is beautiful and immersive, and I think the book contains more answers than I garnered from a first read.

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Mike Nemeth

Maybe she knows more than she lets on

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 5 de abril de 2022

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I suppose I did what a lot of Patrick Rothfuss's readers did when they finished his second novel in the Kingkiller Chronicles. I read, "The Slow Regard of Silent Things." This didn't further the adventures of Kvothe, the protagonist in the author's first two novels. Nope. It headed into an entirely different direction where light, water and the true nature of things make a lot of sense. And I'm referring to Auri, the wisp of a girl who befriended Kvothe when he entered the University. This is her novella. It shares an author but little else. Rothfuss uses a completely different tone and writing style. Auri's tale is told from her voice, which is at once less and more than Kvothe's telling of his life story. She lives day to day, underground in a labyrinth of tunnels and living areas that are no longer used. She is accustomed to darkness and performs little rituals to keep her sane, like repeatedly washing her hands and feet. She wants things to exist in their proper place. At first, this appears to be her own inspiration. But as the novella continues, so does the reader's understanding of her motivations. Maybe she knows more about the nature of things.

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A. N. Blount

A Vivid & Intriguing Character Study

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 30 de diciembre de 2014

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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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