Welcome to the first(ish) of three episodes on The Name of the Wind, the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle, by Patrick Rothfuss. Craig, Ryan, Kyle, and Kenn get right into the heart of why people love Rothfuss: the prose. Even in just the first third of the book, there are plenty of writing samples to choose from as they discuss whether “proetry” is the good, right, or best approach in genre fiction.

MUSIC: “Adventure Time” and “The Seven Seas” courtesy of Philter.no

Here’s Craig’s weird rewrite of the “Silence of Three Parts” prologue: