Wizard's First Rule 12
Terry Goodkind (born 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is a contemporary Americ… Read Full Bio ↴Terry Goodkind (born 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is a contemporary American writer and author of the best-selling epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, which, according to his publisher Tor Books in an August 2006 press release, has more than 10 million copies in print and has been translated into 20 different languages. In a recent Publishers Weekly article, it was reported that Goodkind has sold 25 million copies worldwide.

Goodkind's novels include the following:

The Sword of Truth series

Wizard's First Rule (1994)
Stone of Tears (1995)
Blood of the Fold (1996)
Temple of the Winds (1997)
Soul of the Fire (1999)
Faith of the Fallen (2000)
Debt of Bones (2001)
The Pillars of Creation (2002)
Naked Empire (2003)
Chainfire (2005)
Phantom (2006)
Confessor (2007)
The Omen Machine (2011)

Sword of Truth related fiction

The Law of Nines (2009)
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Wizard's First Rule 12
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@Ruthie Matteson
Casting could have been better. It’s like they didn’t read the books.

DHaran’s were blonde and blue eyed. (Think Nazi Germany). The background actors should have been mainly blondes not to mention the main DHaran leaders. Darken Rhal was described as blonde/blue eyes.

Zed and Kalahn, nailed it, I thought. (Especially the actor playing Zed)

Richard... (serious eye roll). Richard was, as we say in the south, corn fed. Big boy with farm muscles. Strong but not cut like a body builder

Missed bad with that one. Short and small.



BoojumFed

@Hercule Joestar Just about. The Rick and Morty fandom is "I'm Smart", forgetting that everyone else is too. Veeeeery similar, but not quite the same.

Both are issues of pretending that the one talking is superior to everyone else; one by falling into the arrogant nonsense of thinking "I know 'The Rule', so I'm immune to it's effects!" like Zed and other characters here do and the other by conflating intelligence with recognition or familiarity of trite little bits of trivia or factoids as they appear in a TV show with the capacity to know or understand those factoids' derivation, effects, implications, and applicable limitations in the way that actual specialists in the relevant fields do.

Both are traps that anyone could (and depressing numbers of people do) easily fall into, but they're not the same trap.

Also, finally "reading" this I see now one of the reasons why so many folks are deluded into conflating 'truth' with 'perception'. Even the characters involved all recognize that the tree used in the demonstration was not, in reality, all those things Kahlen believed at the time (Or, to put it another way, her perception of it was not true); but the fact that the sword is named 'The Sword of Truth" but is in fact governed by the beliefs and opinions of it's user only, regardless of their validity, unnecessarily muddies/ blurs the distinction between the two. Whether this is something that Goodkind intended so he could later correct/ educate these characters (and his readers) on this distinction in later books, whether it is an impression he actually intended his readers to go away with, or whether it was merely an accident of the fact that "Sword of Opinion" is a much goofier sounding name that lacks the gravitas and emotional effect of the name "Sword of Truth" I could not say, having not started in on his later works yet, but the number of people my age who were in the target audience when WFR was first published and never read any of the others who to this day dismiss truths they don't like as merely other people's opinions and accept opinions they do like as 'The Truth' and then tell me I'd understand if I read Goodkind is... unfortunate.

As I said, Goodkind probably didn't mean for his readers to lose sight of the difference between perception and reality (Unlike many folks out there who make a great deal of money doing exactly that) but unfortunately his sheer popularity compared to other sources of this confusion combined with the truth of the Wizards First Rule has had the unintended effect of a LOT of arrogant jackasses out there...

EDIT: Spelling and clarity. And sounding less as though I think TG intended this confusion.



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Jim B

Awesome, love T.G.
Edit: May he find peace in the afterlife and perhaps get to walk in the lands he created for us. He is very very missed.

Felicia Bateman

So glad I came across this author. I've sooo enjoyed listening. 💗😎

David Powell

This is the best book in the series IMO, it just got too bizarre for my taste later on, but I read a lot of fantasy and I suspect that most folks will enjoy this audiobook.

Bloody Macbeth

Love these books, this is my first time listening to the audiobook and it never occurred to me when I was reading them back in the day that people in D'hara had russian accents. Makes it more interesting. The only thing about Terry Goodkind is every so often I feel a "hot need" to skip ahead because he spends too much time lecturing or explaining things I already understand.

James Vickery

Helps people that might not read the prior books. Annoying for us, smart marketing.

BoojumFed

@Ryan Batton Nah. No matter how good they are, one reader can only do so many voices; and the ones in your head directly from reading are always the best ones anyway. ;^)

Ryan Batton

Some of the voices I was way off on while reading the books

David Bezer

That is actually what makes his writing more unique and interesting. Yes many may understand it but could come across in a different way to others just getting into fantasy

Joe Baumann

The Sword of Truth was the first series I started reading but when I did I got to the point they were waiting a long time for the 6th book to come out and once it did I knew it would be years until another so i kind of gave up. But after waiting for the next in the Mistborn series, new Star Wars books(the last few were garbage), giving up on GRRM, and finding my favorite since The Dark Tower with Sanderson's Stormlight Archives. Not bad timing with the next book coming out in a couple months. But until then I'll listen to all of the Sword again.

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Brunnen G

I remember the first time I read this book, and when Zed explained the wizard's first rule, it instantly rang true for me. It was something I always knew, I just didn't have the words to explain it. I've used that quote from the book so many times since then.

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