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Summary: A wonderful book providing a new perspective
Review: I thought that this book was great! Better in fact than books 3-6 of the series. It was nice to get a relief form hearing about how much Richard and Kahlan love each other, yet can't be together for some off the wall reason. The Pillars of Creation introduced awesome characters in Jenssen and Oba, and I thought that the way the whole book was told through their perspectives was new and interesting.I can't believe people are giving this book such horrible reviews, I mean, you can't tell me that this book wasn't fun to read. Plenty of action, lots of emotion, loveable/hateable characters, and new vivid scenery. The fight at the Confessor's Palace, where Zedd and Adie single-handedly took out nearly all of Jagang's army, was great. Oba's mad thought process was terifically amusing and the greusome details of his many murders was right up my alley. (I especially liked the shovel to his mother's head). Anyway, I think that this was one of Goodkind's best yet, deserves fives stars all the way.
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Summary: Ok as fantasy books go but not spectacular
Review: I have read all books previous to this one and I was put off by the change in characters. I can understand the reasoning to do so, to give the reader a different point of view of how people perceive Richard and his army but I've found since the 4th book that there is a lot of "philosophy" and "rambling".
If you liked the previous books this will probably be slightly disappointing.
From the reviews I've read about the next in the series, I now realize I am going to put this series to rest.
Thanks for the ride but this is my stop.
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Summary: Unliek other reviewers i give it a 5.
Review: Now i understand that most people liek all of Terry Goodkind's Fire first 6 books..but what i think alot of them miss in the books is that Goodkind had started the Pillars of Creation concept way back in book 4 Temple of the Winds. You wonder? Drefan was one of them. think hard he heard voices..Now in all the stuff in TOW you might forget that little piece of info. and in Pillars Goodking just brings the Idea out and puts the flame to it..Sure it was a mellower book and in the Prespective of Richards Sister and brother.....must not forget that...Richards only Experience with Siblings has had bad effects. and sure you dont know towards the end that he is finally getting another piece to his SMALL family.. I thought that fact alone gave it a 5 . It makes Richard as a Character stand out even more because now he will have family right there.
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Summary: Where are Richard and Kahlan?
Review: This book was a disappointment - I bought it because I wanted to see what happened after Richard and Kahlan were reunited at the end of Book 6. No such luck. You don't even meet up with the two people you want to hear most about until the last few chapters of the book and you have no clue what they've been up to. The story was from a different perspective alright - that of a naive and brainless young women who can't seem to ask the question "Why". She finally puts the pieces together at the end of the book, where she miraculously understands it all. The whole book is: Girl meets total stranger. Trusts and falls for him. Someone gets killed. They run. Someone else gets killed. They run some more. She wonders why the D'Harans love Richard but never asks why. She hates Richard. Discovers the bad guy is, well, a bad guy. She likes Richard. The end. Sigh....
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Summary: **Warning this is not the best in the series**
Review: The first time I listened to this I didn't like it. The author doesn't let us know what happened to Richard and Kahlan until close to the end of the book. I listened again a year later and am enjoying it more. For those who know the story and have become familiar with the characters please stick with this book. It's actual not all that bad. You will be introduced to new characters.
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Summary: It has it's moments... but I wish I could go 2.5 stars.
Review: Late November, 2001, just a couple of days before the death of George Harrison. The little Nebraska town in which I live fell victim to a massive snowstorm, and I spent a couple of days basically trapped inside my parents' house. Luckily, the latest book by Terry Goodkind, my at the time second-favourite living author, had just been released, and I had it to keep me entertained while I wasted my time there... In spite of the fact that I wrote a less-than-glowing review of the next book in the series, and that this one seems to be detested by just as many people as that one, I find that I disagree with the general opinion as far as this one goes. Yes, it was different, and I knew it would be, but I didn't find that a bad thing. No, it wasn't perfect either... but I had a good time reading it, and I wouldn't mind doing it again sometime. Actually, I wonder what my thoughts might have been if I'd started this book not knowing that it wouldn't be about our regular characters? I don't even remember now how I came to know that this book wouldn't be like the others, but however that knowledge found its way into that well-armoured orb atop my shoulders, I started the book interested to see what direction it would take the series. While the end took it back into familiar territory, which I now admit to being rather disappointed by... I mean, what if Jennsen had never run into Richard? Suppose her only run-ins with familiar faces had been Zedd, Jagang, and Nathan? I now feel I would have liked that better, especially now that Richard and Kahlan have plummeted to being two of the most annoying characters I've had the displeasure of reading about in anything... not that Richard was much to begin with, aside from a sort of all-knowing-always-right-leader-yet-still-somehow-just-a-simple-country-boy. He'd begun irritating me a little by the third book, but with each one it became a little more and a little more. Thank heavens for Zedd and Nathan... they keep these books worth reading. Anyway, back to the book itself, without saying too much. The story is an interesting one (nothing really really spectacular, but interesting nonetheless). I liked Jennsen, I wanted her to get out of danger, and to be honest I liked Oba even more. As creepy and disturbing as the character was, I enjoyed following around and found his rationalizations for his actions rather fascinating. Did anyone else get the distinct impression that Goodkind had the late Anne Ramsey in mind when he wrote about Oba's mother? "OOOOOWWWWEEEENNNNNNN!!!!" (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out a movie entitled "Throw Momma From the Train", starring Danny Devito and Billy Crystal). I'll conclude this multi-tangented review by summing it up: "Pillars Of Creation" is a quite good book with several interesting ideas, a cast of very well-written and interesting characters, and a good if not spectacular storyline. It'll keep you interested and entertained, but not a lot more... that's good enough for me, though. I had a good time with it, and maybe in a year or so I'll check it out again. Carry On Carry On, MN
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Summary: If Jordan can do it, why can't I?
Review: For fan's of The Sword of Truth Series, you will want to (have to) read this book. Unfortunately, the author apparently feels the same way. This book is at least twice as long as it should be given the little progress made in advancing the plot in the latest entry into the Sword of Truth adventure. Let's summarize 667 pages - of which approximately 300 boring and monontounous: The beginning of the book: Richard and Kahlan in Old World. Zedd and Addie in the Keep. Jangang behind the mountain passes trying to attach D'Hara. Middle of Book: Richard and Kahlan face certain death. Zedd and Addie lose the Keep and face certain death. Jangang can't breach mountain passes. End of Book: Richard and Kahlan triumpth. Richard and Kahlan still in Old World. Zedd and Addie are saved and recapture the Keep. Jangang still can't get through the passes. Terry, we get it. You must stand up to Evil. Don't grant evil-doers moral equivalence. Take responsibility for your life. Most of us agree with you. Now please move the story and plot forward. The last 250 pages of this book were entertaining. Find the interest, complexity of characters and plot that you had in the first several books. Let Jordan write the never-ending saga that goes nowhere.
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Summary: It's good to add perspective
Review: I like this book because it advances the series from a different point of view. The writing is just as good and there is less 'beat the readers over the head' Ayn Rand type philosophy.
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Summary: this hurts
Review: it really does hurt me to give it 3 stars, i wished i could give it more, i think that in the first 4 books there was more compactness in the book, it made sense but now all richard seems to be doing is spewing philosophical things one after another, there is hardly any action which i think was what was most prominent in the first 4 books, the real suspense, like in TOW, it was so breathtaking and the story had such a thick plot i kept going but now there is no more mystery, no more suspense, just richard having problems that can be more easily solved and he seems less real now, i seem to be graping at straws but there seems to be a detachness in the story writing now, i cannot feel the angst of the characters anymore and i really want to
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Summary: Wonderfull Book
Review: A friend handed me this book. I found it a wonderfull read. This is the first Terry goodkind book I have read and now I'm going out and buying the whole series. I just hope the rest are as good!!!!
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