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Wizard's First Rule
- Sword of Truth, Book 1
- Lu par : Sam Tsoutsouvas
- Durée : 34 h et 6 min
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The masterpiece that started Terry Goodkind's New York Times bestselling epic Sword of Truth
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help...and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.
In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them - for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.
In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword - to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed...or that their time has run out.
Wizard's First Rule is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- Yohann
- 30/09/2019
amazing journey, a good complexity on human nature
love it
amazing journey
a good grip of the complexity of human nature
well narrated
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 09/05/2012
This book is a blast
I first listen to this many years ago on cassette. I loved it, so when audible offered it at almost nothing, I had to listen again. I was a little worried, since the first time I listened it was read by Dick Hill, who was great. It took I little while to get into ST, but by the end I thought he did a great job.
This book is a thrill ride from the first minute and all the way through the 34 hours of listening. The main character Richard is no super hero, he is a guy like you and me. He has anger issues, he makes mistakes, he questions himself, etc. I must admit that at times the book sounds almost YA and it is a little preachy about Friends and the Truth and working hard, but with all the action, all the drama, all of Goodkind's wild imagination, this can easily be overlooked. There are no filler chapters, something is always happening. Here are just some of what you will find in the book: Quad Assassins, Gars, Blood Flies, Shadow People, Wayward Pines, a night wisp, snake vines, The Book of Counted Shadows, a Seeker, Heart Hounds, Wizard Rocks, The Underworld, Night Stones, Bone Woman, grippers, birdman, Wizard's Fire, Mistress Denna, Additive and Subtractive magic, the Con Dar, The Blood Rage, Scarlett the Dragon, etc.
My favorites of any book I have ever read were The Mother Confessor, The Mud People, and Mord-Sith. The Mother Confessor can with one touch, make you her slave. You will be in constant anguish, worried that she is not happy. If she says to you "I wish you would just die." You will make your heart stop and die. The Mord-Sith are women torturers who dress in red leather, so your blood won't show as much. From little girls they are raised to torture others and are tortured themselves. There are some strong women in the this book. The Mud People have a great since of humor and are very funny. As a form of greeting they slap each other. Any of these three would have been great to make a book around, yet TG has all three and so much more.
There are probably only two books I like better then this, Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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- Suspect
- 02/07/2019
First Rule. First Rate. However...
Wizards First Rule is thoroughly entertaining and an enjoyable listen. Richard, the main protagonist, is somewhat of a dimwit. For example, despite having been cautioned multiple times by multiple magicians to ignore the callings of ghosts and shadow peoples, Richard still gets persuaded to enter the underworld by phantasmagoric images of his dead parents once or twice per day. Sam Tsoutsouvas's narration is superb; however, this is the only book in the series that Sam narrates, and the succeeding books are butchered by a revolving cast of atrocious narrators. Therefore, I highly recommend that you read (vs listen) to this series. Note: Please Do Not Leave a 5-Star Review When The Narration Is Worthy of Only 1-Star.
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- Lisa
- 08/06/2009
skip this
I'm really unhappy about how bad this book is. Yes I did read some bad reviews but most were not and there is a whole series - so I thought it must have some merit.
If it wasn't for the graphic horror/romance, I would say it must have been written for the young adolescent crowd. There is no depth to these characters - in particular Richard - who isn't even likable. The bad guys are soooo bad and all the author's prejudices are thrown into their characters: vegaterian pedophile communists - a pathetic attempt to sell his "philosophy".
Don't waste your time, for really good writing, character development, and just new and interesting story lines, get George Martin, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, David Durham's Acacia, David Weber's Safehold, and my personal favorite character writer Lois Bujold - Chalion Trilogy.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Joslin
- 16/10/2009
Great story, fantanstic narrator
This was my first choice for a fiction audio listen. I was a little worried about a narrated fiction because my own imagination is usually better, but I was not disappointed. In fact, I'm half-way in love with Sam Tsoutsouvas' voice! He narrated this story beautifully, made the characters and story absolutely come alive! I highly recommend this audio book for anyone who enjoys a good escape into another world with the bonus of a wonderful guide found in Tsoutsouvas's voice.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Lauffeuer
- 06/03/2010
Not for me, but I would recommend it for some.
I can see the appeal of this book. It doesn't waste any time getting into the action, and there is lots of action. Emotions always run high as the characters are constantly in situation that put them in harm's way, and the few times they aren't there is no lack of angst. This is all by design no doubt, since the main character's magical weapon is fuelled by righteous anger.
It's that design that finally burned me out on this book. Every situation is emotionally intense, and after a while I stopped caring. Richard, the main character, is in emotional turmoil even when he's feeling emotionally numb. I never really connected with Richard for this reason. He is always distressed unless it's all gotten to be too much and he is righteously enraged.
Also, did you know good and evil are perspectives and that sometimes people have to make hard choices for the greater good? You did? Well, get ready to hear about it over and over again! It's a fairly simple point of view and most people will understand this concept in full the first time it is discussed by the characters. However, it will be discussed many times, sometimes at length, as a group and by nearly each character in private conversation with the main character. These conversations fill the rare moments the author didn't fill with emotionally stressful situations where the characters are about to be killed.
All that said, the threats are almost always something new and imaginative. The villains are really evil, creatively so many times. The action doesn't stop, and if that's your cup of tea, I'd recommend you give the series a try. For me, however, Richards's constant emotional state has become very annoying and I'm not sure I'll make it to the end of this story, let alone continue with the series.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
- Nathan
- 17/12/2008
RUN FAR AND FAST!!
I have 8 audible accounts and have 45+ gigs of audible books and this will be the only one that I delete. This book is so bad that I feel compelled to write my first review ever in 5 years of being a member. If you have ever read Fritz Leiber, George R.R. Martin or David Weber run far and fast. If you have not read any these authors, look them up in place of this garbage. I am listening to the last 30 minuets of this book as I write this and feel dumber for my effort. The story and the characters are childish and should be confined to pop-up books for 3-year-old children. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!!! If you ignore me and the other adults that have left reviews on this travesty of a book you deserve what you are in store for. I am only giving this book 1 star because the interface requires me to.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
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- Carol Cornsweet Barber
- 19/10/2019
Warning: sadomasochistic porn in fantasy setting
For the first few hours of listening, this seemed like an ordinary, pretty much ok fantasy story and I was looking forward to listening to it, and maybe to sequels. However, it slid into graphic, detailed violence, and then to what seemed like hours (and was at least an hour, possibly more) of graphic torture scenes, gradually becoming more sexualised. When it got to a graphic rape scene, I couldn't take it any more. It feels like the author is reveling in the details of these events--like they are more than plot elements. I could tolerate some of this, but it goes on and on, and on and on.....
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Global1 out of 5 stars
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- Bryan
- 02/11/2019
Just bad
It’s starts nice.
Then there are 4 plus chapters of BDSM.
It got tedious and boring.
I get it! She’s cruel and evil and twisted and crazy!
He’s in pain! He’s broken! Then a miracle happens and he’s completely fixed! 4 almost irrelevant
chapters.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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- Andrew E. Budson, MD
- 11/08/2012
Better than the show
I bought this book because I saw the first two TV seasons based upon these books and I wanted to know what happened later. I found the book different and for the most part better than the show. The performance is outstanding. I highly recommend it to those who like this genre.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
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- Joshua
- 13/06/2019
Absolutely terrible
each portion of this story was entirely disjointed and drawn-out far longer then was even remotely necessary to tell the poor quality story that was attempted. anything that happened during this book was either cheesy to the point of cringing or overly graphic, either due to violence or sexuality, to the point of absurdity. I would review this book further, but then I would be spending more effort on this review than the author spent writing this book
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 21/08/2011
Mediocre Fantasy
First let me say that my reading (and listening) leans heavily towards fantastic fiction.
Out of scepticism I have long avoided the long, multiple-books tales of Jordan, Martin and Goodkind, but during a vacation 2 years ago I ran out of books and started reading the Wheel of Time and was pleasantly surprised. Subsequently I went on to read the complete series as far as it had been published and started listening to a Song of Ice and Fire and again my initial scepticism was proven wrong.
So I thought I'd give The Sword of Truth a chance and lo: it sucked.
Well, statiscally one bad apple had to be in the bunch.
Maybe my expectations were too high, but I found no pleasure in listening to Wizards First Rule, the plot was seethrough at best and the storytelling not very original.
The narrator does a good job I'll grant him that, but that does not help the story much, it only makes it bearable.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- sanchacordelia
- 28/02/2010
Das erste Gesetz der Magie
Die drei Länder Westland, die MIdlands und D'Hara befinden sich in Aufruhr.
Westland ist ein Land ohne Magie, bis Khalan Amnell, die Mutter Konfessor und Herrscherin der Midlands, nach Westland kommt, um den großen Zauberer um seine Hilfe zu bitten, denn die Midlands und auch Westland werden von D'Hara (bzw. dem Herrscher D'Haras Draken Rahl - einem Zauberer) bedroht!
Obwohl es ihr gelingt die Grenze der Länder zu überwinden folgen ihr vier Mörder, die von Darken Rahl geschickt wurden.
In letzter Sekunde trifft sie Richard einen Waldführer aus Westland und gemeinsam besiegen sie das Quadron.
Richard nimmt Kahlan mit zu seinem besten Freund Zedd, der sich als "der" Zauberer entpuppt - aber Darken Rahl ist ihnen auf den Fersen.
Er hat die drei Kästchen der Ordnung ins spiel gebracht und wenn Richard, Khalan und Zedd ihm nicht aufhalten wird er am ersten Tag des Winters eines von ihnen öffnen:
1. Darken Rahl stribt
2. Er herrscht über alles und jeden
3. Die Welt wird vernichtet
Keiner weis welches der Kästchen welches ist, aber die Suche nach dem Buch der Gezählten Schatten ist in vollem Gange!
Zedd ernennt Richard zum Sucher der Wahrheit und übergibt ihm das Schwert der Wahrheit, als Hilfe gegen Rahl.
Doch auch Khalan ist nicht ohne Kräfte - die sich jedoch auch gegen die Freunde stellen könnten!
Das Hörbuch ist Spannung pur - Witz, Verrat, Trauer und Liebe, machen das wegdrücken fast unmöglich!
MIt klarer, englischer, Stimme trägt der Vorleser zum Hörvergnügen bei.
Persönlicher Tipp für alle die ihr Englisch verbessern/ auffrischen wollen!
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Global1 out of 5 stars
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- F. Katharina
- 08/04/2019
furchtbarer Schund
das Buch klingt anfangs gut, ist aber furchtbar langatmig und langweilig, besonders die Gewaltszenen ziehen sich unglaublich zäh dahin.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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- Allan Jensen
- 18/05/2016
Good story - bad plot
A well written fantasy novel, with some interresting world and character building. The overall plot however is unfortunately rather bad, and its stupidity forces the main characters to act like headless chickens or complete morons to not ruin it before the end, and even at the end the plot makes little to no sense except as a narrative journey.
The narrator does a great job.
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- Roman Kalocsay
- 07/10/2019
Exeptional bad author with lack of storytelling
this was hard to bear.
the author is really lacking any deepness. He has no skill in storytelling. Each idea is simply said after another in short sentences, rather than letting the audience discover the story. Once you realise how simple he transports his plain context you cant stand it for long.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 03/10/2017
without a doubt the worst book I have ever paid 4
this book was a predictable boring and badly written waste of money. don't buy it.
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- Sabine Martini-Hansske
- 26/07/2014
oh je
Würden Sie gern ein anderes Hörbuch von Terry Goodkind und/oder Sam Tsoutsouvas ausprobieren?
Ich glaube, ich habe noch nie so lange für ein Hörbuch gebraucht, wie für dieses. Zäh, zäher, am zähesten.
Würden Sie sich wieder etwas von Terry Goodkind anhören?
Entgegen besseres Wissen habe ich mir Teil 2 der Serie gekauft, aber da bleibe ich schon wieder an der ersten Stunde "hängen".
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