I think it would be difficult to enjoy S.O.T. because he has no build up with the second book. I don't blame Clockworkjoe for not liking the S.O.T. and Blood of the Fold picks up right after S.O.T. The Stone of Tears picks up right after (minutes in the books) W.F.R. The books stack nicely if you start with The Wizards First Rule. He developes very strong Characters who show real emotions. I like Goodkinds style of writing because he is constantly moving forward with the story. I finished the Stone of tears last November and just started reading Blood of the Fold. I would have to say that it is some of the best fantasy I have ever read.
TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH WIZARD RULES SERIES
I started reading the Sword of Truth series this summer. The parrallels aren't perfect, and its been years since I first read the early books of both series and started noticing them in the first place, so my list isn't that great, but it is what I came up with in just a couple minutes thinking about it. You've got a distant vague threat from a far away land that makes the scary warrior people of the east not seem so bad. Who the protagonist winds up more-or-less leading and using to gain control of the central lands. Over in the east are the scary people who's warriors are better than those of the central land. You've got the Confessors (powerful female magic users) able to tell the kings of their land what to do. The character's from a western land that's unaffected by the events of the central land, where the magic users are. You've got a self-reliant well-built male protagonist who lived a sheltered life who discovers first that he's a wizard and then that his father wasn't really. (before I found the second book of either) And yeah, the writing couldn't be more different, but I remember wondering who was stealing characters and world ideas from whom after reading the first book of each.
That could well be Pale I know I found the first book of each pretty near the same time. Please site specific passages and page numbers to me, because I simple cannot recall any such incidence in any of the novels. Perhaps you just weren't picking up on the clues as a reader.
In fact, everything that happened to Richard while he was with the Mord Sith was to break his spirit.Īnd characters figuring stuff out without having enough information? Are you sure? Because I don't recall any of that. The amount of torture that it would take to break a man's will.
The only thing found in the first book was TORTURE. I wouldn't call it that, you see, S&M IIRC stands for Sadism and Masochism. Or maybe you consider any sex gratuitous? Read a Harlequin romance novel if you want to know what gratuitous sex really is.Īs for the S&M.heh. I also found that none of the sex was gratuitous, it all seemed integral to the plot-line. It hooked me completely by the second chapter. I read Wizard's First Rule straight through only stopping to eat and sleep.
TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH WIZARD RULES FULL
Jordan's pacing is pedantic and full of unneccessary details. I find the 'parralel' to Jordan laughable! I couldn't get through the first 5 chapters of the first Wheel of time book. I did, and I couldn't get enough of Goodkind. Wheel of Time started years before The Sword of Truth series, maybe you just discovered them at the same time.Īnyway, I'd say at least go and get the "Wizard's First Rule" softcover and read through it, give the series a chance be reading the first book.
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