I decided I was going to do a big reread of R.A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt series (which I still recommend to people) but before that I wanted to try something new, so I picked up 'The Name of the Wind' since about everyone else here read it. 
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I quite liked it. It's not usually the type of fantasy I'm into, but it was enjoyable. The prose was well done, and honestly reminded me of Salvatore's work somewhat. I can also tell Patrick Rothfuss knows his celtic and imitation magical lore. From what I know the whole magic system is pretty much the same as real world occult sympathy magic practices (yep, just wiki-ed it to make sure and at the bottom of the page it says this magic is prominent in the Kingkiller Chronicles). 

I think my favorite part of the novel was Kvothe dealing with the teachers and him getting slack jawed whenever he bumped into Fela. Also his studies with Ben. I was very much expecting Ben to show up again later but he didn't. I also didn't expect Ambrose to be such a problem with the way he was introduced just being some shitty librarian. I thought Kvothe would take him out verbally and never talk to him again, or maybe turn him into a friend, but Ambrose is just a terrible person I guess. 

Oh, one of my truly favorite characters was Auri, and I loved every interaction Kvothe had with her. Particularly the last dinner he had with her, when he asked her if she would show him the 'underthing' and she said "I thought you were a gentlemen. Imagine, asking a girl to show you her underthing." And Kvothe is just dumbfounded for a moment before he asks if she's joking and she says "yes, isn't it wonderful?" I lol'ed at that, and when he jumped off the building to prove to Elodin he wasn't crazy, and then Elodin thought him crazy for jumping off a fucking building lmao.

I'm going to address some of the things y'all said about the novel as well, and whether I do or do not disagree. 

[i]Is Kvothe a Mary Sue/Marty Stu[/i]? 
Somewhat. Not to a huge degree, and it's only really in musical talent and how intelligent he is. But he's no great warrior and not even an incredible magician. Just pretty good. Plus he doesn't get all of the women. He has Fela interested in him, the wealthy blonde girl he beat in the musical competition, and probably Denna. Two/Three is not a lot for a regular dude over the course of a few months, much less a Mary Sue. 

[i]Is Kvothe lying or exaggerating in his story[/i]?
I know you guys said he was, but as someone who literally just put the book down I do not recall him admitting he would exaggerate to Chronicler. In fact, there's a lot of evidence to the contrary. 
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[*]He tells Chronicler that while he can ramble, he wants him to write down every word Kvothe says so exactly so the true story can be told. 
[*]We know he really is an extremely intelligent person and he is not lying about his learning ability because he decodes Chronicler's secret writing language within a few minutes of Chronicler showing it to him, much to Chronicler's chagrin. 
[*]He admits he lies and fails a lot in his story, where he honestly did not need to do that. I can't count how many times Kvothe tells he said something, adding in "I lied" at the end of it.
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The only two times in the book that might be considered for evidence that he exaggerates or lies is 1) when Bast interrupts him and tells him that Denna is good looking, but she does have a crooked nose and Kvothe is like "beauty is more than the sum of our parts" or something like that, implying he might be telling a somewhat biased story on a few things. And 2) when he, Willam, and Sim are sitting at a table and he's telling them how he spent 6 hours with Denna and they ask if he kissed/slept with her, and he says no they just talked, and one of them (I forget which) doesn't believe he spent 6 hours talking, and the other believes him because Kvothe "sounds more sincere when he lies" which can imply he can lie to Chronicler and be believed easily enough. 

P.S. Also when Kvothe begins meeting the Dracchus with "it was a Dragon" and waits for Chronicler's response, though since the beast being a Dracchus and not a Dragon was pretty important to how they dealt with the creature, he couldn't keep up that as a lie or exaggeration so I would think that would be more of an exception than anything.

The only real problems I had with the book was him treating Denna in such a legendary fashion. I did like how she was introduced, and she's somewhat of a prodigy like he is because she's sharp and can sing with the best of them. But her sleeping around with a lot of 'patrons' keeps him from asking her to be with him, even when it becomes clear with the Dracchus attack that she does like him. I kinda felt sympathy for Kvothe at first, because he didn't want to be just another conquest. But even after that when it was clear she wouldn't treat him that way, he still couldn't believe she would take him and it kind of reminded me of the woolheadedness of some WoT guy characters. That and, I do enjoy Denna as a character, but before they went after the Dracchus I couldn't tell her and Denni apart very well character wise, since they were both young, dangerous, rogusih, yet charming women that Kvothe described as "the woman" when he introduced them both. I was glad she (Denna) got a lot more character development later. 

Anyway, I haven't rambled on a book in awhile. I'm glad I picked it up.