![]() ![]() Here, in its entirety, is the prologue to The Kingkiller Chronicle: A reader turning the first page of The Name of The Wind is standing on the brink of a significant time investment (not to mention the inevitable emotional investment that comes with being a fan of anything long-running and serialized). It's the opening of a gigantic trilogy whose concluding volume has been incognito for nearly six years. This is a book that weighs in at just over 200,000 words, whose sequel is nearly double that-almost 1000 pages depending on the typeset used. With that in mind, let's take a look at the opening to The Name of The Wind, the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy. ![]() You can promise one type of story and deliver another and get away with it, but you need to be very, very good and, crucially, the story you give the reader must be at least as interesting as the one they signed up for. ![]() ![]() This isn't just a matter of quality or a book being well written. I remember reading somewhere (Stephen King might have said it) that the opening of a book is a promise, and that the extent to which a book succeeds-the extent to which the reader comes away from it satisfied-depends largely on whether it upholds that promise. ![]()
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