Sword Of Truth Series Audiobooks

[Rachelle Shriver]

TerryGoodkind(born in 1948) is an American writer and author of the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines, which has ties to his fantasy series, and The Omen Machine, which is a direct sequel thereof. Before his success as an author, Goodkind worked primarily as a painter, as well as doing carpentry and woodworking. Goodkind is a proponent of Ayn Rand's philosophical approach of Objectivism, with references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works. The Sword of Truth series sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and was translated into more than twenty languages. It was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker; it premiered on November 1, 2008 and ran for two seasons, ending in May, 2010.Goodkind was born in 1948, and his home town was Omaha, Nebraska, In 1983 Goodkind moved with his wife Jeri to a house he built in Maine, later making his residence on the coast of Lake Las Vegas, Nevada his primary home.Goodkind has dyslexia, which initially dissuaded him from any interest in writing. Before starting his career as a writer, Goodkind built cabinets and violins and was a marine and wildlife artist, selling his paintings in galleries. In 1993, during the construction of his home on the forested Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine with his wife Jeri, he began to write his first novel, Wizard's First Rule, and his writing career was launched with its publication in 1994

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This series was discontinued due to issues with the two authors as well as the publishing house. You can't buy the first 4-5 books in the series in print, ebook, or audiobook. An old print copy for one of them can go for like $200 on ebay. So to find the entire audiobook series for such an insanely good price made me take the plunge and buy. I figured even if it didn't work, it was worth the attempt. But the CD came, had everything on it, and I've since converted it to listen to the Books app on my iPhone. Soooooo worth it.

Couldn't believe the great price for this series. CD came in good time, even during the holidays. The audio is slightly lower quality than expected, but once you get into the groove of listening you stop noticing.

A rare and hard to find series of audiobooks. And a fantastic find in this case. The sound quality varies, but considering the source material, not too bad at all.

Prompt and efficient delivery (to UK).

Certainly good value for money.

Free of the constraints of personal honor, unrestrained by universally recognized ethical boundaries, and in thrall to a philosophy that both rewards and encourages base, self-serving behavior, of course he has no problem whatsoever denying the charge.

No thief can be considered a reliable witness to the crimes attributed to them. In this regard, a thief as common as Goodkind should be somewhere near the very bottom of anyone's list of credible arbiters.

The assertion that the overwhelming number of direct similarities between WoT and SoT are nothing more than happenstance - an almost random assortment of "many common fantasy tropes" - is the definition of sophistry. It is a laughably untenable line of defense; the "similarities" are flagrant and indisputable..

Among certain publishers, it is a notorious instance of outright conceptual plagiarism. Goodkind's work (and do please add sarcastic italics around that possessive 's') is a veritable 'how to' guide for those unscrupulous publishers who want to cash in on a successful concept when they do not hold the legal rights to that concept.

Galt - sorry, Goodkind - is a shameless hack, and he always will be. He wanted money, possibly acclaim, and didn't give two sh-ts how he accomplished that goal. Clearly there are more than a few that share his disinterest.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I remember trying to read Goodkinds WFR, and Stone Of Tear as part of a "endurance challenge" on the ASOIAF website. Besides the fact you can ses Objectivism wseeping into the first book with the whole ban fire bullshit his step brother pulls. And the mighty whitey racism with the mud people. The general one dimensional nature of the bad guys just really got to me. I mean in WOT people who oppose Rand (welle except for the forsaken) really arn't evil in any way. Even the friends of the dark might have motives that could be understandable (despair at a seemingly untenable position). Compared to all who serve the various bad guys generally tend to be shown to be completley unredemmable. Also those who arn't Irredemabley evil in Goodkinds world are generally shown the light through some great show of character by Tairy..Richard rather than through devleopment of the story. PLus the numerous bastards of Richards father are extradnily comical, remindng me of a bad soap opera. Finally I put a huge value on world building in fantasy and Tairy really just seems to have everything as generic as he can get in a fantasyland perspective. But despite these differences its obvious there are many similarities, the collar in the Stone Of Tear (yeah that title, being used by the sitsers of the dark draws far to many paralels to several plot points in TSR. Now besides the being a bad witer and a plagiarist to boot I must admit being religiously opposed to Goodkind, being raised in a high anglican household with a high interest in Catholicism and the writings of Gilbert Keith Chesterton I find the entire philosophy of Objecvism to be anathema to me.

I may have missed someone already bringing this up, but what you're describing is what's known as the "Hero of 1000 faces." Also known as the "monomyth." Many, MANY (most?) fantasy, mythological, and sci-fi stories share the same cliches. The hero starts off as a kid from BFE who knows little about the world. This is a powerful storytelling setup, because it puts the protagonist in the same shoes as the reader/viewer. We also don't know anything about the world that the story takes place in, so when things are explained, it's neither forced nor patronizing. If Luke was already a Jedi and experienced star traveller, it wouldn't make any sense for people to be explaining how those things worked to him for our sake.

To quote from the book that coined the term, "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." I'm sure that sounds familiar.

The name given to "haters" of Terry by his most loyal fan My*. This originated in an email that My* sent to Pat of Pat's Fantasy Hotlist in which he attempted to insult Pat by calling him a "Lemming of Discord", a title so obviously brilliant and hilarious that we only wish we came up with it ourselves.

For must of us the terrible prose, shoddy plotwork, blatant rip offs and chickens who aren't chickens are enough reason to dislike his work. Him being a major douche(mocking a terminally ill RJ etc.) is only icing on the cake.

Leaving aside the authors for a moment (Because I can think of nothing more adult than bragging about how well your heart is doing at a time when the man you are accused of copying is dying from heart disease), the SoT is a thin veneer of adulthood.

I can understand the criticism of SoT (although I think a lot of it has to do with the author's philosophical leanings), and I would only ever rate Goodkind as average at his absolute best, but let's not pretend that several of RJ's WoT books were mostly TERRIBLE. Books 7-10 as a whole are embarrassingly bad, and even book 11, while it STARTED to get things back on track, was painful to get through. As for "copying" RJ, no one in the industry takes that claim seriously, just people who have decided they personally hate Goodkind because of either (1) his worldview, or (2) the fact that he's a jerk. Some people have small minds and can't separate the artist from the art.

WoT was the first fantasy series I ever read and the Sword of Truth was the second. I was looking for something that was very similar to the WoT, and I have to say that I didn't like SoT at all. I thought the story itself was ok, but it was all I could do to finish the first book and overlook the horrible dialogue. That opinion was formed before I read any criticism of SoT.

A publisher would not publish both if that was the case. Both are different enough in their own regard to be unique. BOTH RJ and Goodkind used classical themes seen in many others works. RJ basically rewrote LOTR because he didn't agree that some simple country person would follow some wise old wizard that came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said "You are the one. You must go forth and save the world." He just "borrowed" heavily from mythology, religion, and oral history in which to do it. Don't believe me? Every earlier audiobook where he does his interview on it states as much from his own mouth.

However, it was most hilarious that Robert Jordan was named as copyright holder in one of the first printings of Goodkind's books which TOR promptly recalled. If you are lucky enough to own one, they went for around $300 a few years ago last I saw one on Ebay. And we never really know...maybe RJ had both ideas he pitched to TOR and TOR bought both and hired Goodkind to finish developing and write it. After all, RJ's entire story basis is an unending story that repeats itself in variation after variation. But I've seen enough RJ and Goodkind used in other single works and series of Fantasy, Scifi, etc. Authors borrow, authors use common themes, authors write in other authors to pay homage or some phrase or saying that fans pick up on and know it is a "nod" to another. Some can write concurrently and have similar ideas or expressions but just because two authors share women and men holding power that might use a collar in their magic system, but if you want to look at things from that perspective...RJ ripped off Lucas and Star Wars with his "Source" for the Force, changing it slightly by dividing it into half for the men and women. While that probably isn't true, he'd be pissed nonetheless for the comparison.

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