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Summary: What the heck happened?
Review: Starts out slow, picks up speed nicely...and then slams abruptly into Warp 10. Unfortunately,in a wholly different direction. I've read other reviews commenting on Mr Goodkind's digression into sado-masochism, and I have to say I believe the term "digression" to be an understatement. The author throws together chance meetings, a backtrack in the plot, ignores other plot elements entirely, and very implausibly brings the story to a climax...just so he can turn it around and put the hero in peril. The almost excruciating detail of the tortures that follow left me wondering. And then, when these scenes are over, Goodkind almost seems to get bored with the story, bringing it to conclusion. The characters are great, the basic story is ok, but the "flow" of the novel is absolutely atrocious. I will not be reading the rest of this series.
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Summary: Still waiting for the good part
Review: After turning away from Jordan's WOT (3 books read), I've looked for another 'good' sequel. Reading the first 100 pages of Wizard's 1st Rule was a pain. Goodkind's writing is unimaginative, bad written and single minded. He needs about 250 pages to shift from one plot to 'another'. His fantasy leads to good laughs ... do you know the difference between a 'long-tailed gar' and a 'short-tailed gar'? The short-tailed counts his blood-flies ... argh ... often you think he's joking - but Richard can always count on his 'sausage', 'spice soup' and 'rightfull anger filling him with wrath' :( Don't waste your time with this book!
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Summary: had possiblilties, but far too graphic and perverse
Review: The book started pretty good, an interesting (but at times illogical) tale of Seeker trying to stop an evil force. Unfortunately, the tale begins to get into graphic scenes of torturing children, and a lot of gratuitous torture of hero by an evil mistress. I gave up on the book at this point. This book is not fit for children, teenagers, or anyone else for that matter.
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Summary: Great Start
Review: Terry G sure has started the series with a bang, the first page gets you int the book, and you just float away, i have read all of the books, and this certainly is an amazing Series
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Summary: Wizard's First Rule
Review: This book had potential. But turned me off with the sadistic torture of children. Unnecessary. One of the reviews on the cover compare it to the work of Tolkien. That is a stretch.
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Summary: Good fantasy is so hard to find
Review: Goodkind takes every fantasy cliche ever used, reduces the intelligence level, mixes in a generous amount of tedium, some graphic torture scenes, and the end result is a book that can be best used to hold open a door or burn for a good three or four minutes. This book was so bad, I laughed aloud at how stupid some parts were; the terminology of "additive" (good) and "subtractive" (evil) magic; the fact that the evil wizard is named "Darken"; the idea of someone trying to outlaw fire AND SUCCEEDING; the evil guy making all red fruit poison "because children love red fruit." I can't believe I hung in as long as I did, but I didn't finish. I also found that some of the rules Goodkind establishes early on he breaks later, such as the nasty predator animals (whose names I've forgotten) always being surrounded by flies (the flies disappear later without explanation).
It seems you don't need to tell a good story to be considered a good writer anymore; you just have to write a long story. If you judge by quantity, this must be a great series, because as far as I know, there are five 800-page books in the series. If you prefer a little more originality than 'Star Wars meets Wheel of Time,' perhaps you should look elsewhere.
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Summary: Awesome series
Review: This book and the following three, are without any doubt the only four books that ever made me do this kind of marathon reading. Five days after I began on Wizard's First Rule, I finished Temple of the Winds. It's really amazing to see how I could drop everything, and just read.. but it was well worth it. A great series, it is a must read for those who enjoy good written fantasy. It's the most entertaining series I've read in a long while. Kudos to Goodkind for writing these!
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Summary: Wizard's RULE!
Review: The first book in Terry Goodkind's amazing Sword of Truth series is the best! A simple woods guide finds himself caught up in an adventure he can't get out of. This is a powerful, moving book that sets up a world of magic and adventure! I recommend this book to anyone who loves magic, plot twists, and romance.
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Summary: Wizards First Rule: Don't copy.
Review: Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule is a really good book. However, the deeper you get into The Sword of Truth series you will quickly find yourself (in my oppinion) in a rewritten world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. As if Terry Goodkind took the Wheel of Time series' outline and just wrote his version of the story. My overall oppinion is just read the Wheel of Time and don't waste your time on these books.
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Summary: Likable world, very average characters
Review: I was pretty hyped up about reading this book. After reading the Jordan books several times, I think they ruined other fantasy stories for me. The main character, Richard, can pull some answers to problems out of nowhere with maybe a hair of evidence but couldn't figure out who his betrayer was? Obvious from the start of the book. Even with the explanation of what the "wizard's first rule" is, people as good at figuring out difficult problems as he should have got this as if it was written in Zed's wizard's sand. I will pick up book two, but I hear it has some big Jordanesque ideas in it. Overall, it kept my attention and it did have closure if you only want to read one of the books. The banter of the characters was not very realistic in more than a few conversations, but it was bareable.
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