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04-09-2010, 02:11 PM | #1 |
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Anyone read any books by Terry Goodkind?
Are they worth reading? I've about read all the Stephen King books, and my favorite author Robert B. Parker has died so no more Spencer books. Let me know if you recommend or do no recommend Goodkind. Also - if you don't read, feel free to post pictures. |
04-09-2010, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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I have read half-way of the Sword of Truth series. I like him more than Robert Jordan because he has more far-out fantastical concepts. It's like his is writing in a fantasy setting, but with modern ideas and/or taking the traditional ideas of magic, prophecy, sword and sorcery and putting a unique twist to it.
Also, he writes sex better. I've also started watching the Sam Raimi sydincated series on the Sword of Truth series. Like the Hercules and Xena series, it deviates from the source material. However, it is more serious and has tons of cheese-cake. Can't get through and episode without smurfing-off. |
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04-09-2010, 02:28 PM | #3 |
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I don't read "books".
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I read Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. The beginning was very good. However, about book six started to feel like it was dragging. There was just so much that developed that the story kept jumping from character to character and it didn't feel like there was enough time spent on the main character, Richard. However, Goodkind did a good enough job that the Sword of Truth series is now a television series call Legend of the Seeker. The characters in the show look very much like how they were described in the book.
Have you tried Terry Brooks? He has a lot of books and is enjoyable to read.
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I've read through to the 5th book, and they were great. I got side tracked by some other series, and haven't made it back to his yet.
Terry Brooks is good, but L. E. Modessit, Jr. is great. The Spellsong Cycle, or Saga of Recluse are both worth a read. If you're not easily depressed you should check out The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. |
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My father-in-law loves these books and has read all of them. He says they are great and he tells me to read them. I probably would if I had the time.
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I read Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. The beginning was very good. However, about book six started to feel like it was dragging. There was just so much that developed that the story kept jumping from character to character and it didn't feel like there was enough time spent on the main character, Richard. However, Goodkind did a good enough job that the Sword of Truth series is now a television series call Legend of the Seeker. The characters in the show look very much like how they were described in the book.
Have you tried Terry Brooks? He has a lot of books and is enjoyable to read. Now, there is that in his books, but, he is also not strictly adhering to that convention. The Hero still fights for true love against an ulitmate Big Baddie, but the course he takes is winding, inasmuch as the author is also choosing to spend more time with the other characters/ideas he has plotted. Commercially, it makes good sense as well, since he can always re-vist the foundation he laid on the Sword of Truth series when he went on his tangents, and just spin-it-off onto new books. |
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04-09-2010, 02:38 PM | #8 |
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I got to about Book 5 or 6 and it was just dragging and I lost interest. Didn't find his writing style all that great. Good but nothing that grabbed me and held me.
I loved Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, but after I had got caught up on all the books and had to wait years for the next one I lost interest. Getting back into such a thick work was hard. I think things like Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth work better when reading back to back or not much time between 'em. Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow & Thorn is awesome.
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Chronicles of the Black Company, Glen Cook
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I've heard that. However, I think it is part of his deconstruction of the traditional way high fantasy books are plotted and mapped. The norm is we follow the Hero throughout the series because he is our "in" to this new and weird place. We learn what he learns as he learns it and so forth.
Now, there is that in his books, but, he is also not strictly adhering to that convention. The Hero still fights for true love against an ulitmate Big Baddie, but the course he takes is winding, inasmuch as the author is also choosing to spend more time with the other characters/ideas he has plotted. Commercially, it makes good sense as well, since he can always re-vist the foundation he laid on the Sword of Truth series when he went on his tangents, and just spin-it-off onto new books. That's not Goodkind though. As far back as Tolkien (splitting of the Fellowship) and Brooks (Sword of Shannara had Shea Ohmsford on one path and his brother on another). Most of Tolkien's other works spread out of things mentioned in Lord of the Rings.
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