World Famous Comics: Phantom: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 2 (Sword of Truth, Book 10)
Phantom: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 2 (Sword of Truth, Book 10)
By: Terry Goodkind Publisher: Tor Books Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Label: Tor Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 587 Publication Date: July 18, 2006 Release Date: July 18, 2006
On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.
As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.
If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.
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book The book was in the shape as described by the vender. I would have liked for the vender to notify when the item had been shipped and estimated arrival.
A Great Read! I found this book in the Chainfire Trilogy to be up to the authors usual standard.The one con that made me rate it 4 stars rather than 5,is the pages of detail spent explaining the workings of spells and prophecies.I feel it is really unnecessary filler that doesn't really add to the storyline.I was also pleased to find at the end of the book that the next book will complete the series.As much as I have enjoyed the series,I was ready to see it completed.I am anxious to see where Terry Goodkinds extrodinary talent will take us next.
Aaarrrgh!! I am tearing my hair out. Reading another chapter in this book is about as much fun as taking chemotherapy. I recently read a discussion on fantasy literature where Terry Goodkind was touted as one of the masters of the genre, and by more than one reviewer. Being one of my favoured genres, I had to find out for myself. Unfortunately, I choose Phantom for my introduction. I couldn't get through it. The first chapter was OK, but as I progressed through chapters II, III, and IV, waves of nausea began to overpower me. I finally had to abandon the project. What made it so loathsome? Let me see! The cartoon characters, for a start. Perfectly two-dimensional: no doubts, no flaws, no hidden humanity. The good were saintly, the bad were satanic, and everybody else just seemed stupid, which apparently is the gimmick TG uses to repeat his explanations of all the fantastic hoopla that is going on ad nauseum. Alas! I love a bit of magic. But why try and explain it all with science that is gibberish? Is this a medieval world, or the Jetsons revisited? TG's scientific knowledge must be somewhat stunted, he uses the same 15 or 20 words to explain all the eerie and paranormal phenomena until your mind feels as though it were being dragged through a sewing machine. Talk about Post Traumatic Stress disorder! Then there's the dialogue. All of the characters talk as if they've yet to reach puberty. Is this truly adult literature? I think TG missed his calling. He should have gone to art school to learn how to sketch. Put in a few sounds effects for color. BOOOOM!! SCREEECH! An explosion on every page. This should have been a comic book. In the end I couldn't identify with anyone in the story. I couldn't find anything likable in any of the characters. I just had to walk away.
Sword of Truth This couple can never get a break or all they get are breaks. Another great book in a wonderful series.
Another variant on a pointless theme. Reading Terry Goodkind has become a mind-numbing task that can require days, if not, weeks of convalescence. His writing is no longer entertaining, his concepts are not, and in retrospect have never really been, original, and the very fabric of his plot is a thinly veiled attempt at the dissemination of objectivist propaganda. The ultimate problem is that the reader has not even the slightest chance to expect a logical conclusion to the story or even fathom the direction in which Goodkind will next take his plot. Everything occurs at a purely random pace without any rules or logical boundaries, old themes can come back simply because the author chose to bring them back. For example, there was no hint or buildup to any of the themes employed in the Phantom, no one knew a thing about the night wisps which last appeared nine books ago, and about another witch woman who suddenly becomes a threat many years after the boundary of between the Old and New World collapsed. The last couple of novels prior to the start of the Chainfire trilogy did not introduce any of the concepts now being deemed as prominent, but they reiterated more of the mindless ramblings of an author who has become too narcissistically enamored with his own recurrent objectivist soliloquies, which he simply must have his insipid literary mouthpiece (Richard) spew out at every turn, thus needlessly extending the length of the book by several hundred pages. The horrors of religious fanaticism and communism have long since been depicted by real-world examples; it is not worth repeating incessantly how horrible people who blindly adhere to their tenets can be. However the problem is that if Goodkind did not focus on his deep rooted hatred for anything collective, he might actually have to come up with a cohesive plot-line where his once-interesting characters may have to face true dilemmas, as opposed to finding themselves in situations of mortal danger from which they will effortlessly escape by "being strong", holding on to "the sanctity of life" and "never giving up" no matter if they are beaten or apparently defeated at every turn of the page. Honestly, if one considers the times Kahlan has been struck senseless in the back of the head by one villain or another, she should have at best developed symptoms of recurrent concussions or at worst be rendered comatose. Oh hell, I'll settle for a few missing teeth, but no matter what the sisters or Jagang to do her she remains beautiful and stunning at every turn. This is truly hypocritical writing from an author who strongly states that his characters deal and overcome real-life problems.
Come to think of it, hypocrisy has been a strong theme for Goodkind. He is easy to cast the horrors of the Order upon his readers, while at the same time trying to stress the goodness of his idealistic characters, but in many cases he fails to re-examine his own premises. Here is another example: In one of her intense moments with Jagang, Kahlan notices that "In the end the belief [of the Order] was nothing more than fabricated divinity--unthinking nonsense repeated in a mantra in an attempt to give it credibility, to make it sound sacred." While at that particular moment this sounds very true, just a hundred pages later, hypocrisy appears again as we come to yet another example of "fabricated divinity" and repeated "unthinking nonsense" except this time it is called the devotion to Lord Rahl, and in this case it is described as calming and soothing as any mediation. In truth, while Goodkind openly derides the philosophy of communism, he is all for employing some of the most egomaniacal practices of communist states, such as the creation of a personality cult for its leaders.
There was some shred of hope in Chainfire, a means to probably salvage the end of this series, but Phantom has quickly destroyed most of the hope. By now, I have already heard that the final installment of this series is even worse that anything that came before. How can that be?
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