- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; First Thus edition (Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312890532
- ISBN-13: 978-0312890537
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 231,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fourth in the epic landmark fabntasy series now reissued in B Format
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A stunningly inventive breakthrough novel that takes the fantasy genre into a new dimension; this fourth novel in the Sword of Truth sequence takes the series on to much darker ground without losing any of its powerful magic and mystery, any of its gripping storytelling quality.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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First of all the general plot of Temple Of The Winds is quite good and if you want to know how the story goes on you should have a look into this book (or listen to it as in my case). Yes it is repetitive but so is an episode of "House" and I still like it a lot.
The real challenge is to FIND the plot. I read a review here in which the author wrote that Goodkind must get paid by the word - this is NOT an exaggeration people. Around 60% of this book is cheap overdramatised babble.
I really am into a little romance, nothing wrong with that but what the author did here is much worse than any soap or penny dreadful I have seen in my live. It gets even worse by making the main characters so erratic. First they go on and on about their love being eternal and that nothing could ever come between them. But when it does (like it did happen before - we remember Richard being "abducted" by the Sisters of the Light and "bad" Kahlan made Richard wear the collar) suddenly everything is hopeless. What makes it most annoying is that they are so stubbornly clutching to their delusions to a point where you just wanna get hold of them to give them a good shake but then of course they suddenly realize how wrong they were and blah!
Conclusion: If I would have to compare Temple of the winds to something it would be a sip of good Chardonnay laced with a bottle of Mountain Dew.
My recommendation: Skip though the sob stuff - everything will be fine in the end anyway - and try to filter out the good ideas. If you are easily annoyed by the stuff I described above - buy the paperback Temple Of The Winds (Gollancz S.F.) because it will forgive you being thrown through the room rather than your Ipod...
The real challenge is to FIND the plot. I read a review here in which the author wrote that Goodkind must get paid by the word - this is NOT an exaggeration people. Around 60% of this book is cheap overdramatised babble.
I really am into a little romance, nothing wrong with that but what the author did here is much worse than any soap or penny dreadful I have seen in my live. It gets even worse by making the main characters so erratic. First they go on and on about their love being eternal and that nothing could ever come between them. But when it does (like it did happen before - we remember Richard being "abducted" by the Sisters of the Light and "bad" Kahlan made Richard wear the collar) suddenly everything is hopeless. What makes it most annoying is that they are so stubbornly clutching to their delusions to a point where you just wanna get hold of them to give them a good shake but then of course they suddenly realize how wrong they were and blah!
Conclusion: If I would have to compare Temple of the winds to something it would be a sip of good Chardonnay laced with a bottle of Mountain Dew.
My recommendation: Skip though the sob stuff - everything will be fine in the end anyway - and try to filter out the good ideas. If you are easily annoyed by the stuff I described above - buy the paperback Temple Of The Winds (Gollancz S.F.) because it will forgive you being thrown through the room rather than your Ipod...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An enjoyable story, but too predictable. I guess when you come up with a great idea and turn it into a wonderful book like "Wizards First Rule" then the follow ups are harder. The better the follow up the harder the next follow up...
Sadly, this is the follow up that doesn't live up to the previous books. They left you wondering what was actually going to happen, but by this book the suspense just wasn't there in quite the manner we are used to.
That said, it was still enjoyable, and I would rather have a book that does have an proper ending instead of a Robert Jordan epic that seems to have no ending.
The next 2 books in this series are already out, and I will be reading them. I hope the suspense is back.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I didn't think that this book was anywhere near as good as the previous ones in the series. Richard may be a wizard with a mighty sword, but he doesn't really need weapons, as he could quite easily talk everyone to death. The same with Khalan - it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation she is in, she likes nothing better than to stop everything and have a good philosophical discussion, in which she explains the same thing over and over again, on the faint chance that the reader didn't get it the first or second time through. This over-emphasis on characters explaining mundane things gives an almost childlike quality to the writing, which seems absurd, given the author's fondness of sadistic and sexual themes, which he describes in intricate detail. There are appealing aspects to this story, so I still give it three stars, but overall I found it disappointing.
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the first two or three were great, especially Wizards First Rule. Read more
the first two or three were great, especially Wizards First Rule. Read more
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