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Loading... Wizard's First Ruleby Terry Goodkind
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a great book a lot of actions chracters are great as well ( )It is always curious to see fantasy authors who don't consider themselves to be fantasy authors. Case-in-point: Terry Goodkind. The former landscape painter said in an interview that he wasn't writing fantasy, but 're-inventing the novel'. It always drives me to wonder whether he has read any fantasy. Goodkind doesn't reinvent the novel; he doesn't even reinvent the fantasy novel, but he does twist the knobs and get a little more steam out of it. Michael Moorcock critiqued Tolkien as a false Tory romantic, which is rather apt considering that the love story takes place almost entirely in absentia (prompting Peter Jackson to infuse some extra loving with that hot, elven, psychic dream sequence). Most fantasy authors rectify this by having the girl come along for the journey. Goodkind likes to keep the separation for much of the story as our hero tries to seek her out across a continent (though she is often just in the next room! Oh! What a tragic coincidence! Actually, after the first time it's just an annoying and painfully artificial way to try to make the story more exciting while keeping the characters apart). However, the other half of the time, the hero finds the girl and transfixes her on his mighty sword. No, really. I'm not sure why these authors always end up feeling as if they have to dump their sex fetish issues at this particular juncture: "Huh, I secretly dig BDSM. Maybe I should confide my fantasies in a book for mass publication". I cannot think of a single female character in the entire series who isn't either raped or threatened with rape. If you want to give me an example of one, remember: I'm counting magical psychic blowjob rape as rape. I wish I never had the opportunity to qualify a statement with 'don't forget the psychic blowjob rape'. I don't mind actual BDSM literature, but I'd rather have my own reaction to it than be told "isn't it totally dirty and wrong!? (but still super sexy, right?)" Goodkind's book is cookie-cutter genre fantasy, but it's not badly done, and if you like people narrowly missing one another, bondage, masochism, rape, and dragons, it's pretty good. The series also dies on arrival part-way through, so prepare for disappointment. very very good book,i mean wow just a very good story line and everything!!!!!!!! Verbose and clichéd, but not as bad as Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time novels. Pre09: I give this *book* a full rating. The series died for me pretty quickly. Characters: Unforgetable. Plot: Solid in this one. Defeat the bad guy, but have logical troubles on the way. Style: So epic and personal at the same time. 0.140 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0765346524, Mass Market Paperback)The masterpiece that started The New York Times bestselling epic Sword of Truth In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say. In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out. This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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