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Summary: Unputdownable
Review: I am about to start the fifth book in this series and look forward to the release of the sixth book next August. I have not been so captivated by a fantasy series since I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The characters are captivating, the landscapes vast and the stories epic. One word of warning, the sexuality and cruelties depicted in this series are definitely for mature adults only, children should stick to Harry Potter. All in all a great read.
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Summary: Lamest Book on Earth
Review: Gee, Gosh, and Golly! This used to be my favorite book, too, then someone lent me another big thick book with a dumb swordsman in it and THAT one became my favorite again, whatever it was called. I think I'll make this one my favorite again, because I'm easily impressed. Foolish mortals! Only the Ring can save you from weak, insipid stuff like this. Sword of Shawana meets Bargain Basement Balrogs and Bondage Babes. It was a decent debut, so why has the author rewritten it another half dozen times, getting dumber on each outing? As an evil villain myself my sympathies were with Darken Rahl all the way, and if he'd just done his homework better he'd have been the hero of the next sequel himself (in fact that gives me and idea for a huge door-stopper fantasy series called the Sword of Sauron, in which the good guys are chopped into - naah, it'd never sell). If it had been called the Sword of Almost Anything Else But Truth I coulda took it. No, wait! I changed my mind again - this is my most favoritest book of all time! Sigh...
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Summary: Very good indeed...
Review: I have noted that there have been different ratings of this book, but most of them goes in favour of the author.It was almost worth 5 stars. The story is easy to follow, the characters (just about the right amount of them) are interesting, and there is plenty of action from cover to cover. The torture-chapters were really good....and I wanted it to end...you could almost feel it on your own. Well....just read it!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I really like Fantasy books and this one really amazed me with just about everything in it! I liked the use of strong and interesting characters especially the mord-sith. ONLY two things wrong sexually themes destroying a good guiltless book and it tore me up about which books are better: Tolkien or Goodkind?
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Summary: Better than Jordan
Review: This book is greatly better than the Wheel of Time Series. Over the past four days i have read the first three books in the Sword of Truth series, and it is greatlybetter than Jordan. Jordan seems to be prolonging his series in the effort to only put out more books to make more money. If you want simple fantasy for a simple mind then go with Jordan. If you want good fantasy that does not go on forever withough having any sort of end then go with Goodkind. this is the best series I have since the first Thomas Covenant Trilogy, and before that Dune.
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Summary: amazing imagination
Review: All you that have been saying that this book is not good, WHY? one-dimensional charachters: The mord-sith, misstress Denna is a person you never now where to put it, Good or BAD? storytelling: Read it and say nothing about it what else... this book is good, if you liked tolkien, jordan you will probably be well aware of how good this book is. You might go read the tolkien again, but why waste your time with the stuuf allready known, and not to discover so wonderfull book?
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Summary: deus ex machina used liberally
Review: The ideas are interesting, the writing is passable, but the plotting, oh God the plotting!Someone has got to talk to the author and tell him that it's bad practice to depend on plot gimmics like deus ex machina in practically every single chapter. No matter what happens in the book, no matter what mountain the hero has to climb, some as yet unknown feature of this world appears to save the day, usually manifesting as some hidden magical talent that the hero posseses that he (or anyone else) never knew he possesed and that he somehow masters instantly to save himself and the rest of the world. Sorry, I can't recommend this book. If you want to read good fantasy, read Guy Gavriel Kay or Orson Scott Card.
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Summary: Cliched drivel
Review: Goodkind falls into all the traps that mark bad fantasy. The characters are completely one-dimensional--Richard and Kahlan are flawless human beings, while he goes to extremes to make sure that we hate the villains. The plot is cliched and overly sentimental, and Goodkind's prose is rambling. And it only gets worse with the following books in the series...
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Summary: Stupendous!
Review: This bookr and the others in the series have to be the best book I have ever read. It is action packed,mysterious and very surprising when things happen. I recommend this to all.
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Summary: This book was better the first time when it was called...
Review: This book mindlessly reuses every fantasy cliche invented. This wouldn't necessarily be bad if it was done well. However, I had to stop reading after a couple hundred pages, it got so mindnumbingly tedious. Go read Tolkien again instead.
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