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Summary: Fantastic, excellent, magnificent!!!
Review: Terry, we want more, and more, and more.Not just this one, all of Goodkind is the very best literature I everread. Fantasy maybe even better than Tolkien's. Words can not describe my enjoyment in reading such fantasy, vivid in lifefull colors of hitherto unseen author's imagination. Story goes on and on, getting bigger and bigger with every page, making my muscles tense with action on pages, which is rare (for me, that is). Can't wait for new books.
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Summary: Still not spectacular, but readable. . .
Review: This book, like Goodkind's first two, is a good book to read ifyou are in need of a time filler. I can understand his overcopyingfrom other works, there are no stories that haven't already been told in some other way. At least Goodkind changes the stuff that he copies enough that it is at least readable. That is not my biggest problem with Goodkind. I feel his characters are still flat. Richard and Kahlan are still as sappy as ever in this novel. And most of his other characters are paper thin. His villans actions are overly brutal and it seems as if they were created by a 10 year old who has watched to much horror on TV. But still, I would recommend this as a good time killer, but I wouldn't recommend paying for it. Let your library buy it, then check it out and give it a read.
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Summary: Well, I liked it!
Review: Why must a book be constantly compared to others in the genrefor it to rate favourably at all?? The books are well written andwell developed. I was only disappointed in how short the third book was...I wanted it to be as long as the first two. But I was able to make myself drag it over 5 days...savouring every word and page. Can't wait the fourth book...and whatever else you may decide to write in the future, Terry. Well done!!
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Summary: Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
Review: To the reviewer who wrote about how unoriginal Terry Goodkindis, I'd like to say that all novels have threads of such commonelements as love at first sight, good vs. evil, etc... These are the strings that bind us all. Of course any author worth his salt would include them in a novel; they bring us closer to the adventure. ^M In my opinion, Terry Goodkind spins an intriguing, exciting, wonderful tale, and should be commended. I have yet to read any novels by Robert Jordan, but if it is as so many have said and Goodkind can be so closely campared to Jordan, then I shall have to place the "Wheels of Time" series on my must read list--right after I finish the "Sword of Truth" series, of course! Keep up the great work, Terry!!!
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Summary: Good plot -- one-dimensional writing and character devlpmnt.
Review: Read this book if you enjoy a story filled with similar one-dimensional characters.
In 'Blood of the Fold,' Goodkind continues to put together interesting plots that are filled with characters who are either good or bad. The characters in this series behave and react so similarly that reading the book is like listening to a musician play a single note, without inflection.
Goodkind writes his characters at extremes. Characters are either weeping or jumping for joy,
are either intelligently saving themselves or stupidly falling into the latest trap in order to advance the plot. Mr. Goodkind should try to make use of subtlety and a real range of character types in his writing. In trying to avoid the constant barrage of extremes, he would do well to remember, as Anthony Lane of the New Yorker wrote, that there is nothing so boring as being excited all the time.
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Summary: Goodkind is a booming author...
Review: I'm glad that so many people are now liking the work of Terry Goodkind... he is indeed one of the best authors around... What I still don't understand is why some people still try to deface his work and put other names in his place... If you really want me to say a lot about all this "cloning" and read "Jordan and Brooks and etc instead stuff" If you want me to talk about that I already did, so you'll have to look it up in the Wizard's First Rule Audio cassete review.. When you read, it is for enjoyment not for discriminating against... If you must compare Goodkind to other authors, I must urge you to reconsider...Goodkind is on par with most authors today, I have read Brooks, Eddings, and Jordan... They are well accomplished authors and they are in league with Goodkind.... All modern stories are clones from ancient myths and legends like the legends of King Arthur so why doesn't anyone complain on that? The basic line is to read with an open mind and to read with your heart... Let the author do what he does best... tell a story and let you enjoy it.... So please stop and start reading... Goodkind is a masterful artist in what he does and does deserve a lot of recognition for what he does..
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Summary: Empty world, empty heads
Review: Terry Goodkind's "world" is just a bunch ofstuck-together cliches without a life of itsown. Some may say that Goodkind is "holding back" on world details because he is using Richard's viewpoint, but Frodo Baggins knew even less than Richard about Middle Earth at large and Tolkien's world still came alive in the first chapter of the first book. If the author truly has spent time on his world, there's just a "knowing" quality to the writing...even though there may not be a lot of details, we still feel like the author knows this place well and is taking us on a tour of it. With Goodkind, this feeling is noticably absent.
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Summary: This book s-u-c-k-e-d
Review: I kept reading Goodkind to see if he'dget better. I understand Wizard's FirstRule was his first book, but he should be getting better by now and he isn't. Everything bad in the series is here even worse than in the first and second put together. I AM NOT WASTING MONEY ON THE FOURTH BOOK.
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Summary: Getting Better!
Review: This book is one of the best I've read, next to the Wheel ofTime series, but I don't care about it's likeness to other fantasyseries. Who ever wrote the review with the e-mail address aloric@hotmail.com has the right idea. Who cares if he stole ideas, it's an awesome book!
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Summary: Great book...1 step away from Tolkiendom
Review: I loved the first two, then the third came out and wrapped afew things up...but not enough. I hope Goodkind wraps up some more inTemple of the Winds. The Sword of Truth series lacks that last point that Tolkien has...a deeper understanding of the world and it's inhabitants. I have never read Jordan's works, but this is the fantasy genre and I have read a lot of fantasy books, so all you people who think BotF is a Wheel of Time rip off, why don't you complain about the thousands of other books that are fantasy (just about all of them you could find similarities to the SoT series.
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