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Summary: AWSOME!!!!!
Review: I was home on a Saturday and picked up the book and started reading and I couldn't put it down. This one and WFR are my two favorites. My heart really goes out to Richard, I can almost feel his pain and anguish at the end of the book (don't want to give anything away) and I found myself on the edge of my chair at the end of the book. Some of the scenes were a bit much with the sex and violence but overall...Definitely a good read!!!!! I am dying for Book 8 to come out next summer from what I have heard as a possible release date.
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Summary: These books just keep getting better!!
Review: After reading book one I was afaird this would be just a "one hit series" however after reading the first four books in this series I found out how wrong I was! This book was a page turner I stayed up till 1 in the morning without putting it down. Mr. Goodkind leaves no unanwsered loose ends in his books. He writes everything with an individuality that seems so differant from lots of other modern fantasy. This book is a tale that at first glance seems simalar to the other three books (ie- Richard and Kahlan breaking up, solving a problem, and then getting back together) However, Temple of the Winds provides a new twist and some completely unexpexted ideas and actions of certain people. This book is a continuation of what will hopefully one day be a well remembered series.
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Summary: Woah!
Review: I hav to admit I am a fantasy guru. I have read tons of books, and my favorite book changes frequently, but this book just blew me away. The first book was good, and the second and third, though under the first one were still better than most other books. However, tihs book was excellent. Everything tied in somehow, and you were never left thinking whoa there what was that!? The best part of this book was that the charecters acutually felt emotion! They weren't just well... blah!! Book 5 was only so so, but book 6 was really good too. All together it is a great series with great books.
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Summary: As good as it gets!
Review: I've read many books in my life, but there's never been a book series I've finished as fast as the 'Sword Of truth'!
After I had read "Wizard's First Rule", the first book of the 'Sword Of Truth' series, I thought it couldn't get any better. The second book, "Stone Of Tears', to my surprise, held the niveau of its precedant, and the thrid book, "Blood Of The Fold" even exceeded it! Along comes this masterpiece, "Temple Of The Winds", which is so great that you must wonder what fascinated you about the former 3 books book in the first place... This book alone is worth reading the three prequels!
I can't say the same about the fifth book, "Soul Of The Fire" or the seventh and latest book "Pillars of Creation", but the sixth book, "Faith Of The Fallen", again tops Goodkinds up-till-then masterpiece "Temple Of the Winds".
Terry Goodkind's books are of a unique quality! When I think back of how I read his stories, I can't remeber looking at pages of a book - It is more like trying to remember scenes from a movie! It is as vivid as storytelling can get!
If you like books and if you like fantasy, you won't want to miss The Sword Of Truth!!!
Forget Tolkien, forget Brooks - Goodkind forever!!!
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Summary: Corn and Gore
Review: Sounds like some weird British food doesn't it? Unfortunently, it's not, as it probably would have been more enjoyable than this abomination. Unlike many reviewers, I'm not bothered by the constant gore. Brutality has its place. This is not it. If you're going to use harsh, unflinchingly brutal scenes, do not stick them in between dialogue too [sad] for [another movie]. Do not have one character perform brutal rape, while another talks about "the magic of forgiveness." In fact, do not ever have a character talk about the magic of forgiveness. Goodkind's gore is tolerable, his sappiness is not.This time Goodkind's plot feature's a plague, arranged marriages, and the most pointlessly sadistic vallain in any of his books to date (except Oba, but he's just a Carbon copy of Drefan to begin with). I was angered by the "bound fork" as well. Even when there's no escape from doom, Richard and Kahlan come out perfectly. Goodkind is afraid to have anything negative happen to his lead characters. Even after the brutal rape and torture they're unchanged.
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Summary: Answers to the bad reviews below.
Review: Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds (Tor, 1997) I didn't think Terry Goodkind could outdo the second novel in the Sword of Truth series, Stone of Tears. I was wrong. Temple of the Winds is the fourth Sword of Truth novel, continuing the adventures of the many people we've come to know and love over the course of the last twenty-five-hundred-odd pages of the series. While the main drawback of Blood of the Fold (the constant retelling of previous events, as if Goodkind expects people to read this one who haven't read the first three) remains, the book is larger enough that it becomes no more than an annoying background buzz, and it detracts far less from what's going on this time around. This time, the ratio of buzz to action is greatly diminished, leading to a far more satisfying reading experience than in the last novel. And much does happen (all of which contains major plot spoilers for those who haven't read the first three novels). If you haven't started the Sword of Truth novels yet, what are you waiting for? It's a big investment to make, but at least this far in, Goodkind has yet to bungle the payoffs, and they keep getting better. **** ½
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Summary: Good, but couldv'e been better (read on...)
Review: I was totally wowed by books 1-3 of the series. I couldn't wait to start in on book 4. In fact, when I bought book 4 (being so sold on the first 3 of the series, I bought books 5 & 6 as well!) Terry - this book was good with the exception of 1 area. I really feel you let us down a lot here. For some reason, you seemed to feel (often) that the reader needed to be taken aside and caught up on what they missed. Sometimes I think you even repeated yourself when you were filling in - that you filled them in on something earlier in the book and did it again later like you forgot. I wouldn't have minded so much if you'd have used your obvious talent and made it part of the story (ie having to explain to another character, or put in in there like a memory someone was thinking about....) -- but it really was more like someone standing over the readers shoulder and stopping them to fill them in before they continued with the story. That bothered me a lot. Aside from that though, the STORY was still very good. -- Nancy
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Summary: Will Kahlan never learn??????
Review: A friend gave me this series to read and I was totally caught by the first book. The second was equally good. By the third I was getting quite frustrated with Kahlan. By the fourth, I was actually hoping she would take the opportunity presented and kill herself. The author has done a very good job with the rest of the characters so I can't figure out why he has done such a terrible job with Kahlan. We see Richard grow and expand with his experiences and circumstances but Kahlan never develops. She continually says she would die for Richard but takes every opportunity to betray him, in thought if not in deed. She is terminally stupied and has very limited powers of reasoning and absolutely no intuition. The very obvious escapes her repeatedly. I will finish the series because I do enjoy the stories. This is my first involvement with fantasy and I enjoy the magic. It is limited only by the author's imagination and I love the way he keeps twisting the plots and throwing obstacles at the characters. None are supreme and must deal with limitations. Kahlan just needs to start learning and developing as a character. Actually, I am hoping she somehow dies and Richard finds someone that is truly interesting and grows with him. Kahlan is the reason for the 3 stars. Other than her the book was very good. I will continue reading with hope that she learns a little wisdom, trust and true committment and if not I will just gloss over the parts she is involved in. I have no tolerance left for her.
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Summary: Just awful.
Review: I can't see why most of the other reviews for this book call Temple of the Winds the best book in the series. All of the flaws of the other books seem to come to a peak in this. The Sword of Truth series has a very unrealistic, weak plot -- every book has a new threat about to destroy the world, worse than the one before it. It gets repetitious after about the second book. This time there's a plague -- arguably an original idea, but it seems that Goodkind's just running out of ideas on how the world can be threatened in a new, worse way. The characters have cliched personalities -- Richard makes me sick with his being good, honest, and a 'seeker for truth'. He has the 'Rand al'Thor' syndrome of becoming irritatingly over-powerful -- how could he have ever been a woods guide? But he's even worse than Rand al'Thor -- he's like a -god-. Complete with people praying to him. Temple of the Winds, however, is worse than all of the previous books. The rape and torture never bothered me -that- much before this book. Before, it actually helped with the plot. Now, it seems he just includes it for its own sake, with no purpose at all behind it. Is he really such a messed up person that he needs to include all of this in his books? I'd expect much better from a leading fantasy series. He makes Robert Jordan look like a good author! I read up to this book in the Sword of Truth series before putting it down in disgust. And I did so again. If that happens twice, usually it's enough to mean that the book isn't worth reading. Don't waste your time on this. Go for Zelazny, Tolkien, and Williams.
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Summary: Annoyed
Review: This book was by far the best in the series, but that is not what i wish to talk about. For years now, Fantasy books have been labled under the heading of science fiction, something that has begun to annoy me greatly. I am a fan of both genres, but sci-fi is a sub-genre of Fantasy, not the other way around. All sci-fi books have an element of fantasy, but not all fantasy books have an element of sci-fi. It is an incredible eyesore to see your favorite fantasy book at the library, and to see a blazing sci-fi sticker across it.
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