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It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good communication, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live upward to his full potential.

In high-schoolhouse Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a mean solar day and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. He likewise role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.

Most of Pat'south developed life has been spent in the Academy Wisconsin Stevens Bespeak. In 1991 he started college in social club to pursue a career in chemic engineering, so he considered clinical psychology.

It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him proficient advice, and were no uncertainty appropriately dismayed when he failed to alive up to his full potential.

In high-schoolhouse Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving human relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never and so much as kissed a girl. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.

Most of Pat's adult life has been spent in the University Wisconsin Stevens Point. In 1991 he started college in order to pursue a career in chemical engineering, then he considered clinical psychology. In 1993 he quit pretending he knew what he wanted to do with his life, changed his major to "undecided," and proceeded to report whatever tickled him. He likewise began writing a book....

For the next vii years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied half-dozen different martial arts, adept improv one-act, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel.

In 2000 Pat went to grad schoolhouse for English literature. Grad schoolhouse sucked and Pat hated it. However, Pat learned that he loved to teach. He left in 2002 with his masters degree, shaking the grit from his anxiety and vowing never to render. During this catamenia of time his novel was rejected by roughly every amanuensis in the known universe.

Now Pat teaches half-time at his old schoolhouse equally an assistant-sub-lecturer. He is underpaid but generally left lonely to do equally he sees fit with his classes. He is counselor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly plenty, a sorority. He still roll-plays occasionally, merely now he does information technology in an extremely sophisticated, debonair fashion.

Through a serial of lucky breaks, he has wound up with the all-time agent and editor imaginable, and the first book of his trilogy has been published under the championship "The Name of the Wind."

Though it has only been out since Apr 2007, it has already been sold in 26 strange countries and won several awards.

Pat has been described as "a rough, earthy iconoclast with a pipeline to the divine in everyone'south hidden." Simply honestly, that person was pretty drunkard at the fourth dimension, so you might want to have it with a grain of salt.

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	The Proper noun of the Current of air (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) four.52 avg rating — 817,350 ratings — published 2007 — 176 editions	Error rating volume. Refresh and attempt once more. Rate this book Articulate rating 1 of five stars2 of five stars3 of v stars4 of five stars5 of v stars
	The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Relate, #2) iv.55 avg rating — 480,758 ratings — published 2011 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and effort again. Rate this book Articulate rating 1 of five stars2 of v stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author), Nate Taylor (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 128,017 ratings — published 2022 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Charge per unit this volume Clear rating 1 of five stars2 of five stars3 of v stars4 of v stars5 of five stars
	The Thing Below the Bed (The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle #1) past Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Writer), Nate Taylor (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — half dozen,392 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating volume. Refresh and attempt again. Rate this volume Clear rating one of v stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of v stars5 of 5 stars
	Dice Furcht des Weisen 1 (Die Königsmörder-Chronik, #2.1) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author), Jochen Schwarzer (translator), Wolfram Ströle (translator) 4.53 avg rating — iii,947 ratings — published 2011 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and endeavour again. Rate this book Clear rating ane of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
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	Die Furcht des Weisen ii (Die Königsmörder-Chronik, #ii.2) past Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author), Jochen Schwarzer (translator), Wolfram Ströle (translator) 4.50 avg rating — iii,268 ratings — published 2011 — 26 editions	Error rating volume. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of v stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author), Jim Zub (Goodreads Author), Troy Little (Illustrations) 4.xv avg rating — 2,061 ratings — published 2022 — 26 editions	Mistake rating book. Refresh and endeavor over again. Rate this book Clear rating i of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
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	The Dark of Deep Below (The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle #2) past Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author), Nate Taylor (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 1,591 ratings — published 2013 — four editions	Mistake rating book. Refresh and endeavour again. Charge per unit this volume Articulate rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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