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Summary: Yeah, you're right...
Review: Goodkind is balderdash. Aside from not having anyideas of his own, he can't write fit for s**t.Nor can he plot, nor can be build characters. Some day, all these teenagers who love him will (hopefully) grow up and see how utterly stupid Goodkind's books are.
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Summary: I Can't put it down
Review: In reading some of the other reviews, I noticed many comparisons with other authors and complaints of "borrowing" ideas. Balderdash, I say!!! Whoever had an original thought, anyway. The whole point of reading a fantasy book is to be entertained, not to look for flaws. Goodkind keeps me reading, something I cannot say for Jordan. I loved the Wheel of Time series until book six when it just flat bogged down. I haven't finished it yet. Goodkind keeps dragging me along with him through all the different adventures. I really enjoy his writing, the way he uses words. I haven't been disappointed by the characters at all. They don't do idiotic things just to keep the plot moving; the women are as strong as the men. It is a fantasy...lighten up...enjoy it for what it is, not what you would make it
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Summary: Interesting readig, but not original
Review: This series is a good read even if we have seen alot of it before.
I just wonder why all those readers who think this series is so bad continue to read each book that follows in the series. Why are they "wasting their money".
Keep the series comming Terry Goodkind. Some of us enjoy a good read
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Summary: uhhhhhh..........does this go somewhere?
Review: OK book, but slow plot. Goodkind needs to get a thinking cap or something
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Summary: Garbage and 1/2
Review: Guess old Terry didn't learn his lessonwith the first book: he can't write as wellas a monkey could in his position. He really needs some grammar and style courses.
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Summary: just keeps getting better
Review: I recently finished "Stone of Tears" and while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I disagree with those of you who completerly bashed this book! I think that "Stone of Tears" was and is one of the finest novels that I have read. This novel passes the first in content, action and suspense. I found the characters believable and interesting, I also found myself worrying about Richard and Kahlan when I wasn't reading. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and cannot wait to read the next one. Way-to-go Mr. Goodkind!! Keep 'em coming!
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Summary: BETTER THAN THE FIRST ONE
Review: GOODKIND HAS EXPANDED HIS COMPELLING WORLD THAT HE
INTRODUCED TO US IN WIZARD FIRST RULE. WE TRAVEL
THROUGH HIS WORLD OF MAGIC, WAR, ROMANCE AND CHILLING EVIL. WE ALSO LEARN MORE ABOUT KAHLEN,SHE
IS GIVEN MORE DEPTH IN THIS NOVEL. WE SEE HER BATTLE OVERWHELMING ODDS TO PROTECT HER PEOPLE FROM BRUTAL INVADERS AND ALMOST GIVING UP HER
LOVE FOR RICHARD TO SAVE HIM. WHAT MAKES THIS NOVEL SO RICH THAT YOU REALLY CARE WHAT HAPPENS
TO RICHARD AND KAHLENE. YOU ALSO WITNESS CHILLING
EVIL THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THE KEEPER OF THE UNDERWORLD AND HIS FOLLOWERS.THE ONLY THING ELSE THAT I CAN SAY IS BRING ON BOOK 3!
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Summary: A Must-Not-Read
Review: Terry Goodkind has done it again with Stone of Tears -- he's written a lopsided, badly characterized, overly plagiaristic piece of trash. I don't recommend this book -- I laugh at it.
Goodkind has no sense of the ridiculous. The ideas and concepts that he gives the most weight and significance in this story and in the first ("The Book of Counted Shadows," the length of a woman's hair, 'the target comes to you,' etc.) are all the most ridiculous. Some of them would have been okay if they had been handled better, but Goodkind has no finesse, no delicacy: he bludgeons his writing instead of trying to sculpt or craft it.
The characters in "Stone of Tears" are all awkward and two-dimensional. They do strange things without sufficient motivation: I get the idea that they were all abused as children. Richard is a good example. At times he acts rationally, even level-headedly, but at others, he rushes around without thinking. The way he gave into the Sisters without asking enough questions and without contacting Zedd is bad enough, but when he threw everything out the window to rescue Du Chaillu I decided that he must be deeply disturbed. The "Blood of the Folders" are, of course, Robert Jordan's Whitecloaks redone, but their hate and KKK-like actions are not believable with the explanations Goodkind gives us.
Taking inspiration from another author is okay, but Goodkind lifts whole ideas and tries to bend them to fit his plot. Instead of completely rewriting them or (gasp) thinking up his own ideas, he cuts and pastes, leaving his readers the impression of a patchwork quilt.
Goodkind isn't really a bad author; when he thinks up an idea and runs with it he can be pretty inventive. The problem is he doesn't do it nearly enough. Maybe in ten years, if he's still writing, his books will be worth reading, but right now they should be treated like a very good example of "how not to write a fantasy epic."
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was one of the most interesting books I've read in months. I though the story was very fullfilling and I greatly enjoyed it. I do have to say my favorite fantasy author is still Jordan. Terry Goodkind is the runner up. All in all it was a fun exciting book to read with a nice "happy ending"
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Summary: A true masterpiece of adventure, love and wizardry.
Review: A true masterpiece of adventure, love and wizardry. Terry Goodkind uses the power of words to weave for us a spellbinding tale of Good against Evil, where the forces of Darkness are relentless in their conquest for the known world and only one man and his love for a woman stands in their way. A true tour de force in Fantasy writing, Terry Goodkind is a master wielder of the "plume". Really captivating, once I started reading it I had to finish it.....took me an afternoon but I finished it. Bravo Terry! Next--> the Blood of the Fol
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