Sword of Truth
My mother is an avid reader. I don’t think that she read much while I was growing up but she has lately developed a thirst for the written word. My father was always reading something and the amazing thing is I think it is the only hobby of his that I kept. Well I guess there is gardening also.
Anyway, my mother has turned me onto the Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth series. It is a series of books about an alternative Earth, pre-technology, where magic is present, wizards and sorceresses are both good and bad and the two main characters are a wizard/king and his beautiful magical queen. So far there are 10 books and I am reading the seventh. At times you cannot put them down and like any series you find areas that drag. Thankfully those are few and far between.
I think the reason I am enjoying the series is that Terry Goodkind has provided an arena of both good and bad and explores the nature and results of both. What one group perceives as good, another may think bad and vice versa. He allows for good character development but goes to what I think are the extremes of human capacity to make them. I guess that is what makes a superhero.
Each book introduces a new Wizards rule to live by and the 1st book, Wizards First Rule, starts out the list. The following books each explain another rule and they tend to build on each other. Of course they are common sense rules to live by but presented from the viewpoint of a person with magic, it adds to the allure.
I have been reading them for about 60 days and hope to finish the series by the end of the year. It is only about 8000 pages total depending if it is in paperback or hardbound. If you need a good vacation book, look Terry Goodkind up and enjoy your stay at the beach.
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Cobb
Anyway, my mother has turned me onto the Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth series. It is a series of books about an alternative Earth, pre-technology, where magic is present, wizards and sorceresses are both good and bad and the two main characters are a wizard/king and his beautiful magical queen. So far there are 10 books and I am reading the seventh. At times you cannot put them down and like any series you find areas that drag. Thankfully those are few and far between.
I think the reason I am enjoying the series is that Terry Goodkind has provided an arena of both good and bad and explores the nature and results of both. What one group perceives as good, another may think bad and vice versa. He allows for good character development but goes to what I think are the extremes of human capacity to make them. I guess that is what makes a superhero.
Each book introduces a new Wizards rule to live by and the 1st book, Wizards First Rule, starts out the list. The following books each explain another rule and they tend to build on each other. Of course they are common sense rules to live by but presented from the viewpoint of a person with magic, it adds to the allure.
I have been reading them for about 60 days and hope to finish the series by the end of the year. It is only about 8000 pages total depending if it is in paperback or hardbound. If you need a good vacation book, look Terry Goodkind up and enjoy your stay at the beach.
Icool
Cobb
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