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Wizard's First Rule - Community Reviews back

by Terry Goodkind
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kravmonkey
kravmonkey rated it 17 years ago
I know it's been said many times before but allow me to reiterate -- this book is sure similar to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books. I won't get into any of the detailed comparisons as there are whole websites dedicated to this accusation. Suffice it to say that there are some pretty striking si...
Just One More Page
Just One More Page rated it 17 years ago
I loved and probably will continue to love (can't promise must re-read it again it's been many years) the first book to teh Sword of Truth series. The more I read in the series the less I liked it, something was lacking and I got sick of the constant whining of the characters. I really wish that t...
Ageless Pages Reviews
Ageless Pages Reviews rated it 18 years ago
Inept. Boring. Stagnant writing. Horribly derivative and a cliche family situation, along with a fairly angsty relationship with the most perfect woman in the world bar none Kahlan is enough to make me want to pull my hair out.To be entirely fair, some parts of the novel aren't horrible. There is a ...
sologdin
sologdin rated it 26 years ago
The text wants rhetorical discipline, its worst problem, and likewise evidences, at best, an amateur aesthetics.The text moreover adopts a number of trite narrative elements, including the hero's journey, the numinous object, the freudian psychodrama, the derivative Teutonic creatures, the 'system' ...
"Check Six"
"Check Six" rated it 28 years ago
Picked it up at the library in Naples, Italy and devoured it. There is nothing like discovering a wonderful book that you can lose yourself in. Have read it many times since.
"Check Six"
"Check Six" rated it 28 years ago
Picked it up at the library in Naples, Italy and devoured it. There is nothing like discovering a wonderful book that you can lose yourself in. Have read it many times since.
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it 32 years ago
A really fantastic beginning to a very long series. Richard is a simple woodsman who just wants to live in peace, but when a woman in distress crashes into his life he's forced to use all his skills to survive. I loved the clash of cultures and assumptions that ensue between Richard and Kahlan, an...
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