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Summary: A Great Book
Review: If you look all the way down this page to the very bottom, youwill see many people who detested this book. It made me sick to readthese reviews, so I felt I must say something in their defense. When I first picked up Wizard's First Rule, I must admit I was a little daunted by the sheer size of the thing. But after the first chapter, I couldn't put it down. I fell in love with Richard and his world. Sure, Goodkind copies a little from the masters, but doesn't everybody?? He takes old ideas and brings them to new heights, adding surprise twists and great characters. The Sword of Truth itself, for example..... The story starts from page one and never lets you down. Suspense and magic build as the book unfolds, and the end leaves you gasping for the next book. Go out and read it. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: An awe inspiring rollercoaster ride
Review: Wizard's First Rule is a skillfully crafted book that I believe is only surpassed by its sequel, Stone of Tears. In this book we learn the story of a woods guide named Richard Cypher. Early in the book, he encounters Kahlan, a Confessor from the other side of a magical boundary. He soon realizes that he is not what he originally thought. Named the Seeker by his lifelong friend Zed, also a Wizard of the First Order, he must travel through unbelievably horrifying terrors to defeat Darken Rahl.
This book is filled with unending plot twists, masterful description of both characters and surroundings, and dramatic situations involving love, danger, and the power of those two things combined. I particularly enjoyed and agreed with Goodkind's view of a hero. Several times in the book, Richard is told that he must allow some people to die, let some of himself be thrown away, in order to achieve the greater good. This played a huge role in the storyline, as did the rocky romance between Richard and Kahlan. I strongly recommend this book to fantasy fans and all other readers as well.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC A MUST READ FOR FANTASY FANS
Review: I have read a lot of fantasy novels in my time ranging from
Terry Brooks,Margret Weis,Tracy Hickman,Robert Jordan,David
Eddings,J.R.R. Tolkien,and Terry Goodkind.In my personal opinion Goodkind is my personal favorite of them all.He weaves a story and builds characters like none other.The way that he writes you can't help but fall in love with the characters.The story was very well written,although it has been done before,the way Goodkind told the tale you can't help but getting caught up in his world.A FANTASTIC READ FOR ANYONE WHO READS FANTASY WHETHER NOVICE OR VETERAN READER.ALL WHO INDULGE SHALL ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY READING.
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Summary: What a terrific Book! It keeps you constantly on your toes.
Review: You can be a Mystery, Romance, Classic...any kind of reader, and you will still be held in trall of this book. The reason is that it transcends beyond what we normally expect of a fantasy novel. It is filled with adventure let by a hero of monumental proportions who still manages to be down to earth. The author not only manages to tell a story but to tell it with passion, conviction, and beauty. Unlike any other novels, it has totally unexpected twists and turns that will keep the readers on their toes, eager to journey with it toward the soul of mankind. I gasped, laughed, and held my breath along with the characters and this is the most fun I've ever had with any book. Terry Goodkind surpasses any writer that I've ever know including David Eddings or Terry Brooks, just to name a few. His is the talent to keep the reader glued to the book without a single moment of boredom. Not only that, you will find surprises where you least expect it. Yet, he creates characters who are so well developed that you can easily imagine them to be real. And unlike some writers, he also manages to be clear and concise without the excess that we find in so many Science Fiction of Fantasy writer. Having read practically all the science fiction and fantasy novel that there is, I can say that you wouldn't find a better book that this!
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Summary: Best Fantasy since The Hobbit
Review: In this stunning first book of the Sword of Truth series you meet Richard Cypher, a woodsman living in Westland, a land where magic is only a myth. I was engrossed from the first sentence and couldn't put it down, not only because of the flawless way Terry Goodkind spins this tale but also because I cared about the characters and what happened to them. That is one of the most important qualities in a good story and Mr. Goodkind has it down pat. This is the first book in the Sword of Truth series and is currently out of print but worth the trouble of looking for because this book is not only one of the greatest fantasy books of all time it is probably one of the greatest series of books of all time
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Summary: The best I ever read.
Review: This book is one of the best I ever read. The main character, Richard Cypher, get thrust into an alien world of magic. He is chosen as the Seeker to stop an evil wizard from ruling the world.
You immediately fall in love with Richard, he is courageous, loyal, and honest. In other words a true hero. Unfortunately he falls in love with the one person that is unavailable to him. To make it worse she loves him too. To fulfil his quest Richard must face evil magic, armies, a dragon, and torture that almost drives him insane.
You can see the dilemas of the characters as they try to finish their journey. Like should they kill to win, or maybe lie. They always do make the right choices. They sacrifice a lot of themselves.
The ending is a little predictable: the good guys win. How is not so easy. Although you can figure it out before you get to it, only a chapter or so before though.
This is a book about love, and the power it has. Truth is also important, but it is more the lack of or twisted truth that is more evident. That's how the good guys win.
I really love the way magic just builds its way up. It starts out with hardly no magic to a climactic magical ending. I nearly had tears of joy in my eyes at the end.
This is just the beginning, Richard has many more exciting tales to tell in the next books.
Don't take my word for it, try reading it for yourself. I read David Endings and this is much more exciting, with more developed characters.
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Summary: Goodkind
Review: I did give it a try: I read it cover to cover. I thoughtit was one of the worst fantasy novels I'd ever seen.The man doesn't have an original thought in his body, and his language sounds like something I wrote in first grade. "People are stupid?" Yeah--stupid if they bought this piece of trash.
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Summary: Pure magic
Review: One of the most magical books I have ever read. Second reading reveals rather obvious faults in structure and storytelling, but for pure effect and attractiveness there is no better choice. If you like Tolkien, if you admire Feist, Jordan, Donaldson and others, you MUST at least give Wizards First Rule a try
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Summary: Here's another for the 10 catagory
Review: I thought this book was amazing. I know many people believe that Goodkind is just imitating Tolkien, Jordan, Lucas, etc., and I agree somewhat, but isn't that the whole point? He's taken something good out of each of them, darkened it quite a bit, and then created his own variation. If you enjoyed Tolkien/Jordan/Lucas/etc., and Goodkind is a good clone, then why complain? Except, of course, that while Goodkind does have the "happily ever after" syndrome, the story itself is much darker than other fantasy novels. Which I happened to like
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Summary: A Dream.
Review: For a moment I would like anyone reading this review to please forget where you are and close your eyes and imagine, simply imagine, letting your dreams, hopes, fears, anger guide your mind into that special place where anything and everything can happen. Impossible love that can destroy the world, frighteningly powerful and beautiful magic, fantastical places, brutal battles, torture, and suspense. Do this and you will enter Terry Goodkind's world, a world where a part of every human being with dreams exists, here a fight for life has begun against forces that no one except for Richard can defeat. Enter this world and live your dreams..
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