Why does nobody mention the pacing in Name of the Wind?

I got 250 pages into The Name of the Wind because everyone says it's amazing. But I kept waiting for something to actually happen in the main story, not just Kvothe's childhood stories. The prose is nice and all but I found myself skimming paragraphs just to get past descriptions of music or taverns. I finally quit after the third time he sat around talking about lute strings for three pages. Has anyone else hit this wall with popular fantasy books that get praised for their writing but forget to move the plot forward?

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cameron3182mo ago

The music stuff sets up later magic, you kind of missed the point.

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