Well, well, well. 
 Second day of the Kingkiller Chronicles completed. For a book that was 994 pages, it wasn't bad. Out of those near 1000 pages, maybe 200 were useless and could have been cut. Definitely. Should have been. 
 Ah, I'm getting ahead of myself. First, what I liked: 
 1. Devi. Maybe it's odd that she's my one of my reasons for reading. She only appears, what, three or four times in the whole book? But, ah, I love her. Truly. She's such a great character. Her and Auri both. I wish there was more of those two, I really do. Actually, you could basically say that my reason for reading is almost all the supporting characters. Elodin, Wil, Sim, Devi, Auri, Fela, the Maer, Tempi, Celean, and Bast. Except... Bast is weird now. Really weird. Honestly, what is with him? What's his deal? But I'll get to that later. I promise you. 
 2. The words. Ahhh, the words. I love his words. I love his names. His naming is perfect and his words. His words. He is a word-bender. Or a story-speaker. Or maybe Herma the master linguist. Or maybe he's as mad and brilliant as Elodin. Either way, I'm telling you three times, Rothfuss can write. 
 3. Plum-bob. Need I say more? 
 4. The Adem. They were a fascinating people. The idea of the Ketan and the Lethani. Tempi was sweet, the hand gestures intriguing and the whole martial art really cool. Yeah, I liked them. The only thing I didn't like about them... I'll get to that later on too. 
 5. Last, but certainly not least. The University. I love the atmosphere, I love how vividly he's painted it; I can picture it so clearly, it's almost like I'm there. Honestly, there's nothing I like more than when Kvothe's in Imre and attending the University. The rest doesn't captivate as much, though it's still mostly good. Mostly. 
 6. Elodin. He's a mad genius and there's little I like more than mad geniuses. 
 And now the things I did not like. 
 1. Felurian. The whole Felurian bit. The whole, awful, disgusting, drawn on Felurian bit that I skipped a bunch of. It was disturbing. It made me shudder and even if it was necessary to the story, it did not, by any means, have to go on for a hundred or so pages. We could have skipped most of the, ah, cavorting and just focused on the Ctheah and it would have been enough. 
 2. After the Felurian. Kvothe changed. He went from being an alright protagonist to a lusting monster who slept with dozens of women. Four girls mentioned by name and numerous others who weren't important enough to name, but were implied. I'm sorry, but I lost a lot of respect for him after that. Most shreds of respect that I had for him just whooshed out the mental window. Why, Rothfuss, why? 
 2 and a half. Kvothe is kind of lame in general. As a character, he's just angsty and self-absorped. Not to mention his description of women: "Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made." 
 That doesn't make me feel like an object. At all. Not to mention that he's freaking sixteen. 
 Oh, and I guess he realizes how stupid his words were: "Some might take offense at this way of seeing things. They might think I degrade women. The might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude." 
 Yep, that about sums it up. 
 3. And while talking about the sensuality, how about all the references? Or maybe the lack of morality in the Adem, which is weird cause they're so moral about other things. I'm sorry, but for a people who are so strongly rooted in the "Lethani" whatever that is, to have no issue at all with bedding anyone they want? I just don't buy it. And it makes me squirm. I simply don't agree. It's disgusting. 
 4. Dragging. It's 994 pages, for goodness sake. The whole Maer thing, the whole bandit thing, the whole Felurian thing, the whole Adem thing? All those parts could have been whittled down at the very least fifty pages. At least. It just got dull and hard to read after a while. Like I said, I had to skip Felurian parts. Of course, that wasn't just boredom, but also disgust. Still... 
 5. Bast? Now this isn't so much as dislike, but kind of wary. He's acting really weird, Pat, and I hope, I really hope there's a good reason for it. If you ruin him in the next book, I will not be pleased. I might renounce my non-violence resolution and track you down for the sole purpose of knocking you out with a dictionary. Seriously, don't mess him up. I'm begging you. Make it so his actions make sense. 
 That being said, there are ways to make it make sense. Like, explain that ending part by saying that the soldiers were kind of like Chronicler. Bast hired them to try and bring something out of Kvothe. To bring out the old Kvothe and renew his strength. Then, when it didn't turn out right, he simply lost his temper and, well, killed them. Simple, but not that satisfying. C'mon, Rothfuss, I'm pleading here. 
 Still, this was a half decent book. Nowhere near as good as the first, but not awful if you just ignore the Felurian part and all the extremely annoying sexual references.