Terry Goodkind and the Sword of Truth

[Bozos of Bones]

Has anyone ever read any? Like it? Has anyone read Naked Empire? Speak up your mind!

[Legolas]

I've read books 1-7 as well as Debt of Bones and loved the series, despite the predictability and occasional repetativeness of events; it's simply very well written and makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I've yet to read Naked Empire, or see it in the Dutch stores for that matter. I did catch a glimpse of the hardback in the UK a few weeks back, but didn't buy it at the time.

[Grojlach]

You can read all about my opinions on Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule in this topic. It's not even close to positive, though.

[WOLFGIR]

Well I do share alot of feelings about Terry G with Grojlach I have to admit, not so violnetly I would go through the trouble of trying to find the code for the puking smiley though..

Well I think that the series got a bit better after book 1, and well it is cliché but then again, I find many books to be that. And so it is far more interesting when you find something that goes against the norm, But, I find the books to be good weekdays reading. Sitting in front of a puter doing shiitty work, I am not up for Tolstoy or mindbuggling books every night so a bit predictability is oki that way.

What I don't like is more of the same all the bleeding time.
I want the girl---I get the girl--I loose the girl---I get the girl--again--loose GAAARGH!

I got fed up with unhappy love stories and pseudo misery by doing the gross lets all be really nasty raping evil enemies so the heroe can kill us more violnetly in the end crap.

Oki, sorry. But it got old after two books, two more books and I threw it in the wall in shear desperation of being stuck, so I took up Dreamcycle by Lovecraft instead. Problem solved half way, haven't yet found the inspiration to take it up again.

So is the bookserie good? I let you be the judge of that. Storywise, it do get a bit better with the later books, and many people I know like it alot. I guess it is like Drizzit, enough is enough of the good stuff.

[Bozos of Bones]

Soul of the Fire is excellent, the ending is simply brilliant. The last 300 pages i've been wondering how it will end but when I got to it i was . . . amazed . . . spellbound . . . excited . . . happy. The ending is just, great, innovative and cool. I also LOVE the books that come later, the Faith of the Fallen-a bit different- and Pillars of Creation-excellent perspective and storyline!!!

[RevRuby]

i actually love the sot series. i have read all including debt of bones, which i think was done very well. in fact my daughter, er...second daughter is named after the main character g-ma, so i must have loved it! nathan can't seem tot alk himsle finto reading it but he supports my habit of it so i'm fine. and as far as the "cant have girl, get girl, lose girl, get girl" theme it works rather well as each time it is solved a different way, usually with magic or sheer strength, but still. of course i do like historical romance novels, and how drab can you get, they all go the same way. but t.g. does a much better job, does not have cussing in his books or explicit sex scenes so it gets a number one in my book, something i can share with the kids someday.

the biggest thing i have noticed is the difference of how magic works for them, it is interesting, and the fact that they don;t actually have elves! i don;t know many sword/sorcery books without elves, so i think this adds a nifty twist.

well jmo. ttyl