[King Bear]

To those who've started the Sword of Truth series, how far did you get before giving up in disgust?

Rep for the person it made it the farthest.... though it may be neg rep.

I got halfway through Blood of the Fold, but only under the impetus of teen peer pressure.

Main reason I gave up: enough with the rape! Plus the book was just lame.

[Mrjaco12]

Challenge accepted.

[Slow Ben]

Sadly, I read the whole thing. I have this thing with finishing things. And to be fair it was the first fantasy books i'd read besides Harry Potter.




I am Jacks eternal shame.

[worry]

I saw Wizard's First Rule in a bargain bin at a Ralph's supermarket and decided not to buy it. That's as far as I've gotten.

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

I read the entire chicken-that-is-not-a-chicken passage in an extract.

Kahlan frantically tried to think as the chicken bawk-bawk-bawked.

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[Kanese S's]

Was the first fantasy series besides LotR and Harry Potter I got into. I read the whole thing, because I, too, have a thing about finishing stuff I start. Then I sold them to make room for more Malazan, as I didn't see myself reading them again.

[Aptorian]

I would actually recommend anyone to read the first and second book.

Th first one because that, besides the gratuitous BDSM, it is actually an original sort of Fantasy. It has some really cool ideas, tolerable characters and great scenes. "The Princess Kick" was fucking awesome yes it was.

The second one because just like book 1 it has its moments. At one point Dick Rahl is channelling some Karsa Motherfucking Orlong. How ever, the book becomes worse and worse, the manuscript is shit and it ends with a wimper.

Just accept that it will only get worse and worse from here on in.

You could read the third one just to be sure that it really only is going downhill, but don't read the 4th one. It is so bad I lost hope in humanity when I learned it was a best seller.

And then, because I was an optimist, I read the first hundred pages of book five and encountered the Chicken of Doom.

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[King Bear]

Well this is Goodkind's Chicken of Doom

"Hissing, hackles lifting, the chicken's head rose. Kahlan pulled back. Its claws digging into stiff dead flesh, the chicken slowly turned to face her. It cocked its head, making its comb flop, its wattles sway. "Shoo," Kahlan heard herself whisper. There wasn't enough light, and besides, the side of its beak was covered with gore, so she couldn't tell if it had the dark spot, But she didn't need to see it. "Dear spirits, help me," she prayed under her breath. The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest."
-- From Soul of Fire, Book Five of The Sword of Truth

And this is the real one

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[HoosierDaddy]

I read through the entire series. Granted, the last three (Chainfire, Phantom, and Confessor) all received the "skim philosophy" treatment, which resulted in about 40 page books.

[Primateus]

I read up until 20 pages into Chainfire. I didn't get further because Naked Empire was so fucking awful it actually boggled my mind. Seriously, it was just plain bad!

[Use Of Weapons]

I read them all up to the beginning of Phantom, but read Chainfire on skim mode in the store, and Phantom likewise. I wanted to read Confessor, cos Kahlan is the most interesting character magically speaking (and the whole male Confessor thing was the most intriguing part of the entire series, for me). So I might try again to get through Phantom. But just in case, can anyone confirm whether or not Richard and Kahlan's Confessor son actually appears in any of the books? If not, I won't bother.

[The Tyrant Lizard]

I read all of them.

And actually liked most of them.

My main gripe was the lack of forsight and pretentiousnes perpetrated by the author.

[Gothos]

I didn't read any, but I have to say I actually enjoyed the TV series... much different?

[Primateus]

Gothos, on 13 May 2011 - 11:02 AM, said:

I didn't read any, but I have to say I actually enjoyed the TV series... much different?

very!

[QuickTidal]

I read WFR. That's it. I hated most of that book.

[acesn8s]

I made it through the 3rd book. Too much "borrowed" from Wheel of Time.

[Abyss]

Notwithstanding my innate 'must finish series' habit, made it through FAITH and then the nonsense philosphizing along with Richard's magically appearing stonecutter skills and the entire syphillis thing just finally drove me away for good and nothing i;ve heard re later books tempted me back even slightly.

What kills me about the series is that Goodkind [eyes bleed] is not a horrible writer. There are worse writers out there. he can do a decent action scene. His characters are fine most of the time... And he had some really cool ideas... the Confessors, the Quads, the Sylph, the way the Old World deals with Prophets... even the Dreamwalker (if we ignore the whole 'i'm so evil that i have witches blowing me all the time just to prove how evil i am' thing...)... and fundamentally the utter rip off concepts like the Sisters don't bother me that much... Jordan didn't pioneer that concept after all... even the Mord Sith lesbian ninja anti-magic commando bondage assassins were actually a neat idea...

But then there's the stupid... Richard magically becomes a master stonecutter... the Sword of Truth makes its own decisions whether to kill or not 'because it sense the truth!'... teenagers being fake trained as border guards... an entire plotline dedicated to useless characters giving each other venereal disease...

And when he goes all preachy, which he does with alarming regularity, starting with post-rape abortion in the 3rd or 4th book, it becomes irritating. Really, really irritating.

And then there's the Chicken. I have nightmares about that Chicken. [/eyes bleed]

[Illuyankas]

cough

(good pic choice there Magic Pants)

[Macros]

at best halfway through wizards first rule.
jesus it was shite (apt, you confirm your idiot status by liking it)
I couldnt give you a apge number, but it was about the time lan ran of into the bight to slay some monster then reappeared cut up

[QuickTidal]

Battle Plaptypus, on 13 May 2011 - 03:21 AM, said:

I would actually recommend anyone to read the first and second book.

Th first one because that, besides the gratuitous BDSM, it is actually an original sort of Fantasy. It has some really cool ideas, tolerable characters and great scenes. "The Princess Kick" was fucking awesome yes it was.

The second one because just like book 1 it has its moments. At one point Dick Rahl is channelling some Karsa Motherfucking Orlong. How ever, the book becomes worse and worse, the manuscript is shit and it ends with a wimper.

This is a new level of WTF-ery...even for you Apt.