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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780812551488
ISBN number: 0812551486
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 992
Printing Date: September 15, 1998
Publishing house: Tor Fantasy
Sale Popularity Level: 19217
Studio: Tor Fantasy
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On the blue moon will come the firestorm...
Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.
To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...
To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.
Lightning will find him on that path...
But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.
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This is an excellent book. If you have not read it or the three books preceding it I highly recommend it. It is easy to read and is a wonderful story. Terry Goodkind brings your imagination to life with his sword of truth novels. This book is very discriptive and full of twists. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. Throughout the series I have experience the entire spectrum of emotions. Read this book and fall in love with the struggles of Richard and Kahlan.
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Read this book, but then do yourself a favor and stop
and save yourself from a hard fall.
The ending, 'Confessor', most awful ending I ever read in my life!
And worse, bad writing!!!
And worse because many of his books in this series were so awesome.
I really loved most of his books.But...I just read finished the last book last night.I got it from the library. I'm thanking God I didn't buy it.When I got it from the library, I noticed the spine was all broken and torn. I was intending to fix it...but now I realize it must have been because the last reader threw it against the wall.
I was tempted to as well, but didn't.
It was as monotonous and amateurish. Where the heck was his editor??
I should have listened and not read the book and just made up my own ending.
The one thing I think I hated the most was the way he ended it the whole boring slog.... It was COMPLETELY obnoxious.
His theme in most of the books was to protesting religious zealotry. Those in the Order where following some misguided notion that they were killing in the name of the creator and lived under very communistic conditions.
As I read Confessor the preaching and reminding got so irritating I ended up simply skipping pages and pages of 'reminders'.
Through out the series there seemed to be an acknowledged basic natural(and good) desire to connect with the Creator and the spiritual connection in all of us. And that there was indeed an afterlife and he seemed to be pointing out that those killing in the name of the Creator are wrong.
Also, Goodkind spends many chapters explaining the 'theology' of his fantasy world....how magic works and is connected with the underworld etc etc..But then he completely trashes it AND connects his fantasy world to our real world!!! The whole effect was disconcerting and took away from the 'fairy tale ending'...because you know in this ending the Creator is dead, or consigned to some corner and told not to bother anyone ever again.
In the end Richard destroys the entire afterlife for those banished to the non magic world, where he conveniently alludes to those formally of the Order are now the 'building churches'!!! What?)
Not mosques, not temples, not circles...but CHURCHES! (and not just any Churches, but CATHOLIC churches because they use medals and 'talismans'. What?)
Excuse me? Is Terry Goodkind really this ignorant, or is he just another patsy for the secular order that is encroaching with the culture of death? I think both.
Does anyone want a link to pictures of happy young jihadists brandishing the hands of Christians and other kaffirs they collected for allah???? Those of the Order where more like militant islam and the Saracens of history and militant communism and nazi's rolled up in one!! Knowing that as of this minute while I write this thousands of Christians are being executed for 'blasphemy' and oppressed with well documented sharia dhimmi laws in muslim countries or as in communist China's case, having children ripped from their wombs because they value life and would want to welcome a new child among them,...but it's against the godless of laws of china. Or what about the mass graves of Orthodox and catholic priests and nuns from Communist Russia and it's former satellites??
What an insult to those really truly have and are suffering on behalf of the values of life and liberty.
Ugh. I was completely irritated that I even read the series to begin with. I will not bother to watch the TV series.
My advice is save yourself aggravation and money and skip this series.
It's a garden path to nowhere even if slavish anti-catholicism and Nietzschism doesn't bother you, the ending is so horrifically disjointing and boring after so many really good books, you come out of it feeling like you were slapped...hard.
M~
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As in Peace of Mind since it finally convinced me that there was no hope for the series to ever improve, and that they would continue to dissapoint and be a relentlessly painful read. And since I dropped the series I've slept peacefully ever since.
Honestly, there really wasn't much of the books that I ever actually enjoyed, save for the Mordsith. The reading was choppy, almost like he wrote the story then went back and randomly plugged in descriptive sentences to make the book longer, and it had been like that since book one! The story and plot line are the same in every book. "Oh no, Kahlan, my love, you are supposed to betray me! But fear not, I know you never would and we'll work through it" And so they cry for about 50 pages. And then at the end when she does betray him, he can't believe she would ever do it and they cry again for the another 50 pages.
Character developement is a little lacking, and the different groups, societies, and organizations are practically torn and plugged in from other fantasy novels, and he doesn't even smooth out the torn edges first.
The Sword of Truth is the McDonalds of Fantasy, and Terry Goodkind is the clown.
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This is the installment of the Sword of Truth series in which Terry Goodkind really comes into his own as a mature stylist and plotter. It is noticeably the best-written of the series up to this point, and the plot leads to a climax so brimming with conflict that it is physically uncomfortable to read. I found myself in the position of hardly being able to bear going on, but at the same time not being able to put the book down. In fact, I was quite angry at Mr. Goodkind the very first time I finished the book, but a book that can have such a powerful impact and give you so much to think about is a rare thing.
The plot involves a Jack-the-Ripper-like serial killer, and a Black-Death-like plague set loose in the capital city of Aydindril. The latter storyline is more effectively written, but through Goodkind's brilliant contrivance both are combined to force Richard and Kahlan to face their most terrible situation yet.
Some people complain about some of the more gruesome aspects, and perhaps there is more realism here than in the typical fantasy novel (including one particularly horrific scene of torture based an a real method of the Inquisition), but it is hardly gratuitous. Rather, it is done to heighten conflict and thus drama, and ultimately adds to the Romantic elements typical of fantasy, particularly heroism.
There is some very good characterization (and even psychological insight) here, too, particularly of Richard's newly discovered half-brother Drefan, and Mord-Sith Cara. I found Nadine extremely obnoxious the very first time through, but on my more recent second reading she struck me as only slightly annoying, and in places even sympathetic. But if you really hate her, don't worry, you will probably derive some satisfaction from her fate.
Thematically, this is a book about love and sex, betrayal and forgiveness. Goodkind examines both romantic love and familial, fraternal love, using one case to explore when forgiveness is possible and appropriate, and the other to show when the requirements of justice preclude the extension of mercy.
In short, if you're looking for a good page-turner that can also make you think, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better book than this.
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Many people say that the very first part of the book is slow. They are right that there is not much action in the beginning of the book, but there is still a great deal of conflict and drama.
About halfway through the book, when the plague picks up steam and the prophecy is revealed, I had a hard time putting the book down. Terry Goodkind did a horrific but wonder job at revealing how the plague damages the world. When I got the last 200 pages I couldn't have put the book down if I had wanted it. They were incredibly intense. I found my eyes were constantly watering, just ready to stream tears down my face, which they did quite a lot in the last 200 pages.
The book is very unpredictable, and when they catch you by surprise, your breath will catch in your throat. The ending though recompense for the horror of the book.
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