Chainfire: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 1 (Sword of Truth, Book 9)
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Read in September, 2007
[This is my first review, because I think it's important to say this...:]
I know alot of you like to bash Goodkind. And I'm not saying that you don't have valid points. In fact, I even agree that some of the books have not been "up to par" with the first three.
However, I think that this book marks the turning point. "Naked Empire" was more of a return to the original feel and formula of the books, whereas "Soul of Fire" through "Pillars of Creation&qu...more
I know alot of you like to bash Goodkind. And I'm not saying that you don't have valid points. In fact, I even agree that some of the books have not been "up to par" with the first three.
However, I think that this book marks the turning point. "Naked Empire" was more of a return to the original feel and formula of the books, whereas "Soul of Fire" through "Pillars of Creation&qu...more
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Terry Goodkind, started out as one of my favorite authors, but then he came out with Chainfire, and Phantom, these books were horrible compared to his first books. I'm almost afraid to read his last book in the series because I don't want to be disappointed.
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Read in August, 2008
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This was like a breath of fresh air after reading the previous eight books. Finally, something new! And the glimpse of the ending! Perhaps it's just because I've been reading the entire series back to back, but it seems that it's long and plodding in some parts, then bizarrely exciting in others.
The premise of the book, that a spell has caused memory of Kahlan disappear from everyone's minds except Richard's, is new for Goodkind. It derives from the damage to magic that has been done in ...more
The premise of the book, that a spell has caused memory of Kahlan disappear from everyone's minds except Richard's, is new for Goodkind. It derives from the damage to magic that has been done in ...more
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
people who like ponderous writing styles
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Read in May, 2005
This is Book 9 in the Sword of Truth series, a series I started reading so long ago I can't even remember! When I was in college I had the luxury of being able to go back and re-read all the other books whenever a new one came out, but I haven't been able to do that in probably 4 or 5 years. So I read Chainfire "cold", without having read a word of Sword of Truth since the last one came out 2 yers ago. While I didn't remember many of the small details, the main story came back to me qu...more
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Read in May, 2008
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I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed reading Chainfire, especially after the torture of Pillars and Naked Empire. Chainfire was a different kind of torture (a good kind) wrought with mystery, despair and... hope. More than any other of the books in this series, I can say that appreciate the theme and message communicated through the text in addition to the original and engaging plot. At first I was very skeptical not having one of the series two most important characters present throughout th...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 June, 2008
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This book is the beginning of the end for the sword of truth series. It picks up shortly after the events of the last book, with Richard waking up to find out that Kahlan is missing and that none of his companions remember her existence.
I really enjoyed this book, though not as much as some of the others in the series. My biggest problem with this volume is that a lot of time is spent with Richard trying to convince the people around him that Kahlan is real and needs to be saved or runni...more
I really enjoyed this book, though not as much as some of the others in the series. My biggest problem with this volume is that a lot of time is spent with Richard trying to convince the people around him that Kahlan is real and needs to be saved or runni...more
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Goodkind sure knows how to spin a good yarn... if only he would stick to his storytelling and leave out the naive and idiotic philosophical ramblings. At some point around book five somebody alerted him to the notion of Objectivism, and he's converted his series to be a mechanism for bad objectivist propaganda. Only... it doesn't work, because of the way he set up his first few books, so he's constantly contradicting himself. And his explanations for why things are like that are half-baked at...more
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Read in September, 2007
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I thought Terri Goodkind totally sucked at first (generally just terrible writing) but then I thought he came into his own and improved as a writer (horrific torture sequences aside), but then he devolved into pretentious philosophy mumbo-jumbo and turned Richard into a mouthpiece for his tedious rants on all things philosophical, much of which was elaborate justifications for torturing suspected terrorists. Um, if you read between the lines a little. THEN Jess tells me about his lambasting jour...more
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
people who love being preached to
If you took away all the redundant sentences (I'm not talking about Richard's mannerisms that we've gotten used to, I mean the same sentence reworded on the same page), all the random arguing that does little but provide a vehicle for the same philosophy we've heard in the past 8 books...this book would probably be about 450 pages instead of 7whatever. I say random because not only have *we* heard it all before, but certaintly so have the characters and instead of saying, "But X, we've been...more
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someone bored
I learned that the author was having a crises of conscience when he wrote this one. Apparently he didn't work it out cus he wrote two more. Because I am morbidly curious, i will eventually finish this series.
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Read in October, 2008
Chainfire starts a new sub-trilogy within the Sword of Truth series. It was fast paced and centered around a clever mystery. Never slow for a moment. The idea for this final trilogy that will conclude the Sword of Truth series is a very interesting and unique idea.
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Read in September, 2008
As gripping as ever, but it felt a little light. It doesn't seem like a whole lot happens, relative to the other books in the series. It is maddening and a little frustrating that this book ends in such a circular fashion.
There's a decent illustration of the law of non contradiction, as well as the axiom that what is is. This book really doesn't feel like it stands alone, which is why it's part of a trilogy, I guess.
There's a decent illustration of the law of non contradiction, as well as the axiom that what is is. This book really doesn't feel like it stands alone, which is why it's part of a trilogy, I guess.
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any one that loves adventure, magical world, love story and action,
this series has so much to offer its readers. if you love action there is plenty of sword play and fights. there is always a foe they are trying to defeat, the evil father, illness that befalls them, a dream walker, sisters of the dark, the keeper himself. there are loyalities and friendships struck, battles and love that bloomes. wizards witches, sorceres, night fairies, gars, queens and mord sith's. it just has something for most everyone. a very well put together story. to be able to c...more
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