re: Nerd Alert: Rothfuss/Lionsgate sign huge deal to adpat Kingkiller Chronicles

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To me, it was just Kvothe being an unreliable narrator, bragging about his sexual prowess to keep building his legend.

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I feel that Kvothe being an unreliable narrator provides a lot of the undercurrent of interest I find in the book because I think we're going to find out that he's been really unreliable, which, to the extent that he's taken it here, is a refreshing and "new" concept to me in terms of books. I mean, you have the unreliable narrator, to an extent, in a lot of fiction, but in Kingkiller you can barely trust him. I like that wrinkle.

So far as his braggadociosness though, I agree. It gets old, particularly the extent to which he takes it. We get it - Kvothe is an extreme braggart and a liar - there's no need to just beat it to death like he does.