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Summary: It's alright, but there are better books on the market....
Review: It took me a long time to get into reading this book. Once I did I found I liked the story line, but Goodkind's writing style is the worst I've seen in years. I've known children who can write better than that. This book is VERY predictable and parts of it have been 'lifted' from other books. Can we say plagarizm?? Richard's time spent with the Mord-Sith was too drawn out and overly brutal...and hints of some BDSM fantasies Goodkind must have. If you have nothing else to read and feel like wading through all 800+ pages then take a crack at it, but there are MUCH better books out there
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Summary: not worth reading
Review: Alright, I didn't read the english edition but the
german. There it is published in two parts. I read
the first one and didn't like it very much. Since I normally read a book til the end, I thougt of reading the second part, I started reading and just gave up on the third page. I don't mind a book that isn't very original, as long as it is well written, and this one isn't.
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Summary: Wizard's First Rule is a must-read!!!!!!!!!
Review: In Wizard's First Rule, the hero, Richard, is traveling throughout new land for him. He has a women of great power and beauty, a wizard and friend, and a warden with him on the trip. They are trying to stop their world from total destruction by someone who is close to one of the travelers. Along the way, they meet many different people and creatures. This book has all of the elements of an epic fantasy.
It is truly remarkable!! Must Read!!
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Summary: Touching and memorable, even to long-time fantatsy readers.
Review: This book is a creative and wonderous entry into the world of Richard Cyfer. While you read this book you are swept away with the stroy and you weep for the character's hardships. Terry Goodkind's first novel has made him a star in my eyes.
This book has all the classic fantasy requirements: an old wizard, an unlikely hero, a beautiful woman, dragons, magic, superb fighters, and evil to chill the bone. In this book you are taken to the darkest corners of fantasy and then too the most glorious. It is as I said, "Touching and memorable even to long-time fantasy readers.", like myself.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: Good characters? Good writing?! ORIGINAL IDEAS??? Did we read the same book? I for one have been thrown into spasms of hilarity by the insistence of all the die-hard fans of Goodkind that the concept of originality is nonexistent in the fantasy...and therefore, folks, for a carbon copy of every other fantasy ever written, this book is simply glorious. You guys are really funny, and I only hope you`re joking. Let me explain something very simple: Tolkien, LeGuin, Kay, Jordan, and Williams based their stories on four things: history, mythology, ancient philosophies, and the fire of their own imaginations, the interpretations they themselves drew from the previous three elements. Now one can perhaps say that Goodkind is original in comparison to these authors because he doesn`t trouble to draw from any of these things. Instead he regurgitates the ideas of his contemporaries, without imbibing them with any spark of his own. In other words, Terry Goodkind might just have the dubious distinction for being the first fantasy writer with no imagination. On top of that, his style of writing was flat and boring enough to make me stop reading, the first book ever to do that. It was, quite plainly, kindergarten level, painful to the eyes and ears. And one would think, considering the book is written like a little kid, it will at least have a little kid`s morality, but hah. No such luck. Not content with being merely a plagiarizer, Goodkind has to be a sado-masochist as well. It`s difficult to tell who`s more perverted: him or Denna. The characters are a bunch of little nonentities whose scant good moments are killed by the truly awful writing. So for all of you who loved this book...well, Terry Goodkind himself has the best line to express my thoughts on that subject. "People are stupid." (By the way, g.hildy@sk.sympatico.ca -- I hope the grammar and spelling met up with your standards.
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Summary: A great book!
Review: I really don't see how anyone could criticize Wizard's First Rule, much less Terry Goodkind. This is one of the most entertaining, suspense-filled books I have ever read. I loved every page and literally could not put the book down. Terry Goodkind, with Raymond Feist and David Gemmell, are my favorites in the genre
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: Enjoyed the book immensely, am always filled with a sense of hilarity when I read the so called "critiques" by those who find books boring, then go on to bore the rest of us with several paragraphs of improper use of grammar, worse spelling, etc. Take for instance, ravmatis@netvision.net.il, "Flat Characters, Flat Land, Need I Say More". Why did you bother
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Summary: don't believe the hype
Review: To say this book is bad is an understatement. Goodkind typifies the word "hack," drawing on cliche after cliche, writing in the most amateurish of styles. If I hadn't borrowed this book, I would have wanted my money back
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Summary: A decent story, but nothing new. . .
Review: This is an entertaining story, and a would recommend it, but it does have many flaws. First, it has been done before. Most of this book is just a regurgitaion of other author's stories, especially Robert Jordan's work. It is the story of a guy with a magic sword who is fighting a "Keeper" (Devil) who is trapped in a world of the dead. There have to be about a thousand fantasy stories out there right now that follow the same plot line. Another flaw is it's length. For a book that copies as much as this one does, it doesn't need to be a whopping 800+ pages. Probably the biggest flaw of this book is it's preposterous character's and the silly situations they find themselves in. The character's are all paper thin, possessing nothing to really distinguish themselves. And Richard and Kahlan make me want to puke with thier sappiness. "Oh I love you Richard! Oh I love you Kahlan!"- - - - - SHUT UP ALREADY!!!! Despite all it's flaw's the book can still be enjoyed though.
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Summary: Could have been great - it's trash instead!
Review: I was thoroughly enjoying this book until I realized more and more I was reading scenes of torture, rape, child molestation, and general perverseness. When our hero was captured by the Mord-Sith, and the torture scene went on for pages and pages, and then for more pages, I began to resent what time I had spent reading it. I looked ahead and found a scene when a man is forced to eat a very sensitive part of his own body as punishment. I closed the book, and I won't read anything by Terry Goodkind again
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