Have to agree with you about the cover (haven't read the book yet.) I always get my books from the library and I was less than comfortable checking this one out. :) Can't argue that he's hot, though!

At least this one is clear - the next one, Damien, has some kind of weird elbow/knee thing sticking up in the middle. Can't for the life of me figure out what it is!

I was curious, so I had to check it out... Its the girl's shoulder!

Her shoulder? Are you sure? the angle looks all wrong to me. How can her shoulder be so far away from her head?

Haha... Yeah, I'm sure. It's like one of those Magic Eye pictures - once you see it, you can't miss it.

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She is leaning back with her head turned toward him, and her shoulder raised. You can see her shoulder bone directly under his chin, and he is holding her arm. Her collarbone is pretty clear, and the shadowy area underneath the collarbone and behind her shoulder is what makes it look like a knee.

Maybe I should read this book now that I have analyzed the cover... ;)

It's definitely the deep shadowing on her collarbone that makes it look completely whacked. Like, really really wrong. I think it's a terrible picture, actually.

Oh you've just reminded me - I read it last weekend and haven't posted a review yet!

You're a reviewing machine, Shannon. I don't know how you have time to read as much as you do and still write full-length, insightful reviews. :)

Anyway, it is a pretty bad picture... You would think that any professional photographer would see something like that and reshoot it with better lighting, but maybe they couldn't see it because they already knew what it was supposed to be.

Probably :)

At the moment I don't have time for "fun" reading at all. I'm bogged down with work/degree stuff and have about seven books on the go right now - and no idea when or if I'll get a chance to finish them! (I'm doing my teaching degree and am in my first practical session, so I'm busy doing lesson plans and trying not to freak out!)

To completely ignore all the comments about the book that I will never read, if only because of the cover...

I have the same issue too. I'm super busy with everything else that I'm not doing much reading, besides a few pages a day... and even worse is that I'm re-reading the Sword of Truth series, which at the rate I'm going, I'll be doing through December.

At least it keeps me from buying books with money I don't have.

--Kyle

Nothing keeps me from buying books with money I don't have!

I still have the last two Sword of Truth books to get through. The second half of that series went downhill so fast it's been a long time since I felt eager to read them. The early ones were really good though.

Not even the "credit crisis"? Where it's difficult to even find money to spend that you don't have? haha

But trust me when I say this: the last two books of the series are the best of the entire run. They are well worth trudging through the repetition and drudgery that Goodkind creates somewhere in the middle.

Believe you me, sugah.

--Kyle

I definitely want to finish the series off, but I was really getting annoyed with Richard in the last two or three books. Actually, longer than that I think. I don't need to hear another time how fricken awesome Richard is. Bang me over the head with it why don't you Terry my-middle-name-is-not-subtlety Goodkind!

I think he *wouldn't* bang you... over the head.

Something about his pictures in the back of his books scream "I like very young boys!", I think...

--Kyle

*laughs*

He's a bit of a poseur hey. I can't look at that photo - it doesn't even make me want to laugh, it actually makes me feel really uncomfortable. There's something very unnatural about it, and very "commando"!!! I quite simply disagree with him about many things, and maybe he's scary because he's so ... patriotic.

I was going to let you have the last word, something I very rarely do ;-)

But... I couldn't help it. Because I just started rereading "Pillars of Creation", and came across the intro/dedication in the beginning of the book.

"Dedicated to the people of the United States Intelligence Community who, for decades, have valiantly fought to preserve life and liberty, while being ridiculed, condemned, demonized, and shackled by the jackals of evil."

Don't get me wrong, I agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly.

But combine that statement with what he says in his books and his picture...

And you have a very scary Republican on your hands, Sarah Palin level scary, who happens to also be Barack Obama level smart.

Maybe he should run for President in 2012 for the Republican Party, under the platform "Terry Goodkind, Creator of Truth" and saying that he'll banish all evil into some sort of alternate world where only evil exists since they hate good so much.

--Kyle

I remember reading that dedication and thinking "Ah! Now it makes sense!"

That's a frightening proposal. Don't suggest it to him, you'll give the man ideas... ;)