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Summary: A must for any fantasy reader!!!!
Review: This book was the best I have read in a long time. I just finished, I am looking forward to reading the Stone of Tears. Read this book, you will not regret it.
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Summary: An epic masterpiece that you will either love or hate.
Review: I read this book a couple of months ago. It is vivid, graphic, and ultimately enthralling. I am a 23 year old male, military and not particularly sensitive to violence. I like fanstasy and most of my books and movies with abundance of action, violence and sex. This was the only book where I had to pause during certain scenes where one of the characters gets tortured. Very disturbing. That is what keeps me from giving it 5 stars. I don't think anyone under 13 should read this book. Having forewarned potential readers of this, the rest is great. The main character is very likable and the villain as evil as an NC-17 rated version of Emperor Palpatine crossed a good looking version of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
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Summary: Whoa. I'll add my review to the huge stack.
Review: I had to drive from Detroit to Chicago eight times in two months, so I thought I'd get a book on tape. The longest bookcasette (in terms of hours)in a genre in which I have interest was Wizards First Rule, so I chose it on that basis.If you're trying to decide who to believe here, those who hated or loved the book, here are my two cents: I would have loved this book at age 13 or 14. If you're a young adult, or new to the genre with no specific expectations, you may like it very much. If you're an adult, you will probably feel vaguely insulted by Goodkind's incredibly sophomoric and pedestrian observations about human nature. I have no artistic pretentions and I realize that any attempt at fiction made by me would be unreadable; however, I am convinced that any well-educated adult could make more insightful statements about the human condition and human tendencies than this man does. I can't give it one star, though, because every once in a while the book was entertaining. Keep in mind that I was doing seventy in the dark down I-94 for hours on end, so my entertainment choices were limited.
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Summary: What's all the hype about?
Review: Someone gave this book to me like he was handing over the Holy Bible of fantasy novels. I had only good impressions from everything I've heard about this book and the author. Therefore, I was rather perplexed when the story was so awful, and the characters so straight out of the fantasy "cookie cutter" of heros that I read more, thinking that there must be something wrong with me. But I'm afraid it's true, this book is horribly mediocre. The characters are flat, the plot is non-existant and I couldn't even finish the book. Now I am an avid reader of fantasy and I can only wonder at 300 reviews praising a book as completely uninspiring as this one. Read it for yourself, but I really don't have a clue why so many people find this author, and particulary this book, so engaging.
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Summary: Should be Zero stars: Not all fat books are good.
Review: I remain puzzled that people find this to be a well-written series. I was so utterly bored by the characters that I couldn't even care when the S&M overtones were introduced. People, fat fantasies are not necessarily good fantasies. Read Kay, Martin, Hobb or Glen Cook for some excellent works. This one just plain stunk out the house.
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Summary: the king of books
Review: I got wizards first rule about a year ago and read it. i really liked how mr.Goodkind wrote his story. there was love, betrayal, magic, and a talking dragon. I think everyone should read this book and other books made by mr.Goodkind.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read.
Review: I read and reread this book in two weeks, and during that time, could not think of anything else. I was losing sleep because i was staying up too late. I didn't get homework done. I'd open it every free 5 seconds I got. This book became reality in a way no book has ever done. Anyone who can read english, do yourself a favor and read Wizard's First Rule.
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Summary: Simply the best book ever created
Review: OK. What is going on in here. This book is just perfect! I've been looking at this page and I found that there are too many people who gave this book 1 star. In fact, some of them said they wanted to rate this book with a zero. First, they said that people were stupid for saying this is a good book. They also say that the reason is because they are stupid just like Terry said. Who are you punks? Are you all some kind of guy who works for some other author and go into these pages just to write bad stuff about them? I think that Terry is wright, people ARE stupid. All of you who think this is a bad book are stupid. By the way, you don't even know Terry. His house is in the middle of nothing and spends most of his time using his imagination in quiet places like a forest. Terry Goodkind has writen the best series ever created. And by the way, what if there is something copied from other books? Who cares? You get to read everything in one piece! Now, I am not saying that Terry did copy from other books. He just used what was necesary to make a wonderful story. Terry Goodkind's books would be PERFECT if he tried to remove the nasty sexual scenes. But while reading the book, I just ignore them and keep reading, they are part of the story. He uses detail on every single event of his story. I could even recognize the whole world were Richard lives if I ever happened to go there. Read this book, it is simply the best book you will ever read.
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Summary: The worst book I've ever ATTEMPTED to read
Review: I have read many fantasy in my life, but never this bad. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine who said he loved it. I do not feel the same. I only read 1/4 of this book because it lacked so much that i can get in other authors. My only regret about not finishing the series is i bought the first 4 at once. A total waste of my time and money
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Summary: I love this series
Review: I was given the book as a gift. The series title nearly made me laugh. 'Sword of Truth? Gimme a break.' Then I read it. I was swept up by its story in the first few chapters. the tale was told masterfully; I simply could not stop reading it. I was engulfed in its wake almost as much as I was with LOTR. Kudos to Terry Goodkind.
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