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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780765356857
ISBN number: 0765356856
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 2405
Printing Date: October 03, 2006
Publishing house: Tor Fantasy
Sale Popularity Level: 13336
Studio: Tor Fantasy
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This Mass Market Boxed Set, is the Third Boxed Set of The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind:
The Box Set includes:
Pillars of Creation, 0-765-34074-7
Naked Empire, 0-765-34430-7
Chainfire, 0-765-34431-9
Book 7: Pillars of Creation
Sequel to the New York Times bestselling Faith of the Fallen
New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin.
With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.
Meanwhile, Lauren finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real.
Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation.
Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit. Find out why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.
Book 8: Naked Empire
Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.
Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.
Book 9: Chainfire
With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.
After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.
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Terry Goodkind deserves a lot of praise for this series. Its rock solid from the very first chapter in book one and takes you on an amazing journey though a complex world of magic and intrigue. But as it progresses though the plot and character development it somewhere takes a wrong turn and end up as a sort of rightwing manifest for dummies.
The thing is that Goodkind turns the lovable character Richard Rahl into some sort of conduit for a moral standard that's so one-sided that it'll make you puke. He'll keep Richard explaining a simple concept of freedom for the individual for pages and pages and he tends to dumb down the language so much that you feel like your back in kinder garden getting yelled at for eating orange snow. The action that worked as page turners for the better part of six books now has disappeared almost completely and has been replaced by these monologues.
I'll still read on from book nine, but I seriously doubt that it'll pick up much from here on. Its good entertainment, don't get me wrong, but it looses that high end quality as soon as Jenssen gets introduced in book seven. And that reminds me, Jenssen is by far the most boring character to get introduced into the series. It does not help that the whole of Pillars of Creation revolves around her. I'm hoping for more Zedd, less morals and someone that can teach Richard to use his gift in the books to come. And a new Gorge R.R Martin book.
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Terry Goodkind is one of my favorite authors. As an author myself, I can appreciate his perfect balance of adventure, terror, passion, and humor. This is a long series but well worth the time for a good read.
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Awesome series, Terry Goodkind is great, I am addicted to this series and so is my wife. Every true fantasy fan will love this !!
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Terry Goodkind is an excellent author with each book being different from each other, but has enough connective material to keep it all together. Having these books in threes makes it cheaper and better to purchase this way rather than buying one at a time.
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This set contains books 7-9 of Terry Goodkind's wonderful epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth: The Pillars of Creation, Naked Empire, and Chainfire.
The Pillars of Creation - 4 stars.
This is not among the best books of the series--some of the new characters are better than others, and some parts of the story more engrossing than others--but it is still quite good. I especially liked Althea and her husband Friedrich, and Tom. Jennsen is a mixed case, but more good than bad. Oba was a bit annoying. Sebastian is one of the best new Goodkind characters, good or evil (perhaps in this case not obviously either), in a long time. The section when he takes Jennsen to meet Emperor Jagang for the storming of Aydindril stands up to almost anything in the series thus far.
And, as usual, Goodkind's story illustrates important political and philosophical themes. Here we have a novel about the crucial need of, appropriately enough in light of 9/11, good intelligence agencies (though this is hardly an Ian Fleming novel), and more deeply of using your own judgment rather than relying on what others tell you is the right or wrong thing to do. A worthy message well told.
Naked Empire - 4 stars.
In Naked Empire, Terry Goodkind weaves a plot that, through the action of the story, illustrates increasingly deeper themes with great relevance to our culture today. Politically, and most superficially, it is a story about the hopelessness of the doctrine of pacifism for establishing genuine peace, but that it rather leads to tyranny. Ethically, it is about whether people are justified in fighting for their values by retaliating against physical threats to them, or whether it is ever proper to turn the other cheek. Epistemologically, it is about whether genuine knowledge comes by revelation from another world, or by reasoning about our perception of this world. And metaphysically, it is about the doctrine of mind-body dualism versus that of mind-body unity, and the results of accepting each. (There is even a bit about esthetics, though not nearly as a much as in Faith of the Fallen, in which the nature of art played a much more central role.)
As usual, the plot advances the stories of the characters and the world in which they live, and Goodkind's characterization is excellent (though Owen is a bit obnoxious at first, but not as bad as Nadine in Temple of the Winds).
Chainfire - 5 stars.
I would rank this book up there with Faith of the Fallen as the best book in the series so far. While not as explicitly philosophical as Faith of the Fallen (which, aside from Richard's very first premature and out-of-place philosophy speech at the beginning, seamlessly integrated philosophy with dramatic action so that by the climax I was on the edge of my seat not in spite of, but because of the ideas involved), Chainfire cashes in on the reader's love for the characters, and their value to each other, that has been built up since the beginning of the series. The scene in which Richard contemplates suicide is particularly stunning. Publishing house's Weekly's complaint that there's not enough action is shallow and stupid. Who needs sword fights when you've got drama like that? Besides, the "beast" that's after Richard is the best antagonist Goodkind has created yet.
A word about the box set itself: it would have made more sense to box Pillars and Naked Empire together with Debt of Bones instead of Chainfire; that way, when Confessor comes out in paperback, they could have done a fourth set consisting of the Chainfire trilogy (Chainfire, Phantom, and Confessor). But I suppose they will instead do Phantom, Confessor, and DoB for the last set, and it's a minor complaint in any case.
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