Phantom: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 2 (Sword of Truth, Book 10)
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Read in September, 2007
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Folks who agree with Ayn Rand, but don't like to read all those big words
Goodkind imitates one of his characters, Jagang the Just, as he tortures this story and rapes his plot to the point where he stretches this one hundred page novella into a 673 page brick.
Almost nothing happens in this book. Mostly the characters talk. And talk. And talk. They tell each other things they've already told other characters. We've all heard of "Show, don't tell." Someone needs to tell Goodkind to "Tell, don't show." I don't need all this plot recounting. I don...more
Almost nothing happens in this book. Mostly the characters talk. And talk. And talk. They tell each other things they've already told other characters. We've all heard of "Show, don't tell." Someone needs to tell Goodkind to "Tell, don't show." I don't need all this plot recounting. I don...more
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Read in August, 2008
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Goodkind continues the extended adventure begun in Chainfire as Richard struggles to reunite with Kahlan in the face of the approaching Imperial Order. I enjoyed Phantom, because it finally has Richard acting on a scale grand enough to effect the plot in a way I haven't seen since Blood of the Fold. In the intervening novels, Richard usually gets drawn off on a tangential adventure that then loops back into the plot. In...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Tony Rotolirecommends it for: die-hard fans of the series
I'm still committed to finishing the series, but this is beginning to get tedious. Undoubtedly Goodkind gets paid by the word, because he keeps repeating things. He repeats things over and over. Grated, in a series this long, one needs to repeat things that the reader may have forgotten. But one does not need to keep repeating things that were just repeated 30 pages ago in the same book.
You have no idea how annoying it can be to read something where the author keep repeating things over ...more
You have no idea how annoying it can be to read something where the author keep repeating things over ...more
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This series as a whole is very good. I found that once I picked up the first book I flew through the whole series, stopping only when I read the last one out. I then continued reading as they came out. When I started reading them their was only five books, now that the series is complete we can set the whole thing into some perspective. I will be happy to see the TV show starting fall of 2008 and hope it is as good as the books.
On the less than benign side, the author does tend to stop tel...more
On the less than benign side, the author does tend to stop tel...more
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Read in August, 2005
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This was an excellent continuation of the Sword of Truth series where Richard continues his quest for Kahlan and understanding what has happened/is happening to the world. He learns more about the Chainfire event, the title for the previous book.
Unlike his other books, which provide the reader with enough detail from previous events to almost stand alone, this book, and I imagine the final book in this trilogy, does not and cannot make sense without having read the previous title.
There ...more
Unlike his other books, which provide the reader with enough detail from previous events to almost stand alone, this book, and I imagine the final book in this trilogy, does not and cannot make sense without having read the previous title.
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Read in October, 2007
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Read in September, 2008
At the start of the Sword of Truth, everything was good.
Maybe it was the multi-year gap where I had left off halfway through the series only to finish it up now, but somewhere along the way I lost most of what was good about this series.
Somewhere along the way it turned into endless discussions about how bad the Imperial Order is (we get it, they're evil, you don't have to keep copy/pasting your same discussions about them every few chapters).
The Chainfire trilogy to me almost seems ...more
Maybe it was the multi-year gap where I had left off halfway through the series only to finish it up now, but somewhere along the way I lost most of what was good about this series.
Somewhere along the way it turned into endless discussions about how bad the Imperial Order is (we get it, they're evil, you don't have to keep copy/pasting your same discussions about them every few chapters).
The Chainfire trilogy to me almost seems ...more
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Read in July, 2008
This is a good sequel to the first book in the Chainfire Trilogy. Richard has managed to convince his friends that Kahlan does, in fact, exist. His goal in this book is to find her and do something about the Chainfire problem, while also not utterly losing the war against the Dreamwalker.
This book is definitely better than its predecessor. It doesn't spend a lot of time with people questioning about the existence of Kahlan and actually moves on to other things. Something I found interest...more
This book is definitely better than its predecessor. It doesn't spend a lot of time with people questioning about the existence of Kahlan and actually moves on to other things. Something I found interest...more
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It's amazing that this is the tenth book in the series, and I can still be riveted by the characters and intricate story that is weaved in the fantastical, and yet familiar, world that Goodkind has created. While at times this story becomes a little far fetched, the culminating reunion in end makes it all worth it.
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Read in August, 2007
I enjoyed this better than Chainfire, which I don't think I ever finished. It has a better balance of good things happening and bad things happening, as all I remember from reading Chainfire was that it seemed like the characters were faced with progressively insurmountable obstacles and horrific situations.
Here, there's hope, even though I'm a little disturbed by the free society "West" vs brainwashed masses "Islam" parallel to which Goodkind may or may not be trying to...more
Here, there's hope, even though I'm a little disturbed by the free society "West" vs brainwashed masses "Islam" parallel to which Goodkind may or may not be trying to...more
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Read in September, 2008
From what I remember this series was getting worse and worse but I enjoyed this book quite a bit, perhaps it was because it has been some time since I've read a SoT/Fantasy (my favorite genre) novel. One complaint I do have is that Goodkind continues with repeating things over and over and over some more, after the last 5 books explaining how brutal and depraved the main villain's army is you would think the author could have scaled back a little and focused more on the story itself. Hopefully...more
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Read in December, 2007
I love this series. I'm glad it's finally complete, so I can read the next and final installment right away. It's been a while, so that I don't remember a bunch of stuff, and want to re-read the series afterwards too. Important stuff is being reminded along the way, so that I could read it even after this long. And it was amazing. I remember that I didn't like one of the books in which Jennsen Rahl was introduced, because the pace seemed so slow... Not so with this book. Also it brought to mind ...more
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