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Summary: Good first efforts
Review: Terry Goodkind's first three books in this series (the only ones I have read) have the hint that Goodkind may some day write a wonderful fantasy series. However, this series is not it. It's a great series for young readers but I would skip it if your tastes run to the more mature. If you're just looking for some filler until the next George Martin book is published you won't find this book unbearable but it won't be enthralling by any stretch of the imagination.
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Summary: spectacular!!!!!
Review: This book was great. It is cool how Tobias acually thought that he was the creator. It was a good addition to the series.
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Summary: Magic and steel combine in an epic battle.
Review: I am a little overwhelmed by the scope of these books. The mans imagination is enormous and quite scarily believable. Comparisons with Tolkien and Moorcock are unfair and a little insulting to all parties concerned. The myth of popularity is being invoked here and this saga is being downplayed and undermined by those who wish to liken it to an action film. The brutality is sometimes told with beauty and finesse, the words floeing and slicing through the reader very much like the sword itself. To discount the talent behind these writings because of some misplaced literary snobbery is a crime in itself. A good story, intricate, believable, beautiful and scary. If you don't have dreams about it theres something wrong with you!!!
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Summary: Terry Goodkind is amazing.
Review: For those of you who don't like him, why read him? I love this series and Blood of the Fold was an excellent edition. Though Terry Goodkind needs to work hard to reach the greatness that is J.R.R. Tolkien, I think he could do it. When he does, I will give him fives. Until then, the only series I will give a five is LOTR.
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Summary: Exellent
Review: A good Epic fantasy novel is a rare thing. Tolkein did it, Moon did it, and Jordan did it, but the field has, overall, been cluttered with junk. now, though, my faith in the genre has been restored. goodkind is a talented original, mixing the nessesary classic elements, wizards, dragons and magic swords, with a new and different world. In short, exellent.
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Summary: i cant believe it. Another great book!!!
Review: I am really impressed with this story. It grabs you and wont let go. I really liked the mriswith. These creatures are sweet. I also like the ending. But i wont spoil it. You will just have to read it to see what i mean. I love the characters in this tale. I like the gar gratch. This guy is awesome. Keep up the great work Mr. Goodkind.
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Summary: All Over The Place
Review: I've read the first three books of this series. I liked the first one, although the writing was very raw. The second was very average, and the third was even less exciting to me. I don't know why I've read all three, and why I'll probably read the fourth. I think I like the characters, and I like the ideas of the story, but I don't think I like the story itself. Goodkind is a very average writer. I hate when two authors are compared, but I have to respond to some of the Goodkind-is-better-then-Robert-Jordan folks. Although I agree that Jordan's last three books have been extremely disappointing, Goodkind does not even come close. Jordan is a very good writer, and by that I mean he knows how to work the language. Goodkind does not, although I think he might be geting better with each book in terms of that. Authors can get better; it does happen (see Terry Brooks). But Jordan also has a very logical and rhythmic flow to his plot; things happen for reasons (at least before this last book!), while Goodkind is all over the place. Sometimes I think he throws a monster in every once in a while just for the hell of it. "Well...we've gone thirty pages without a monster, let's throw one in." And the gore factor; I don't mind gory scenes in books, but Goodkind takes this to an extreme. WE GET THE POINT, TERRY! How many times does he have to describe the blood and bits of flesh being splattered all over? It is so excessive that it is almost laughable. It's like...[INSERT GORE OR MONSTER OR BOTH HERE}. Come on. Anyway, it doesn't work for me, it just seems like there are so many obvious plot contrivances that it gets annoying after a while. Stop trying to go for shock value and focus on the plot more, Terry.By the way, about this comparison to Robert Jordan; I thought I had already read the second and third Goodkind books already...because it seems he's just lifting stuff from Jordan's books and calling it his own. "Sisters of the Light"! Give me a break.
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Summary: Damn you non-believers!!!
Review: After skimming over most of the reviews, I concluded that there were two types of reviewers, the believers and non-believers, with very little gray area. Frankly, I believe Goodkind's fantasy novel should be congratulated. If you are easily offended by Goodkind's writing style or accuse him of plagiarizing Jordan's Wheel of Time series, then you will never be exposed to some of the best fantasy in our time. Your loss, not mine.
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Summary: "A masterpiece" i said about the first one..now I don't know
Review: Wizard's first rule made me really LOVE fantasy litterature, the blood of the fold made me worship it. Here Terry Goodkind got himself a place in the history for me what matters. He writes with an unstoppable inspiration, and a creativity I have never seen before. He cought me with the first sentence, and didn't let go until I finished it 26 hours later! If the The wizards first rule was masterpiece, well then I don't know WHAT to say about the Blood of the Fold. If I could give it "6" I would.
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Summary: A great book to read
Review: This series is a compelling one to read; I read it all in a month, and I couldn't put the books down. As for Jordan's series, I am in the process of reading it, but so far Goodkind's books far exceed Jordan's. I would recomend these books to anyone who loves to read!
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