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Wizard's First Rule

Name: Wizard's First Rule
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Sword of Truth, Book 1

De : Terry Goodkind

Lu par : Sam Tsoutsouvas

Série : Sword of Truth, Volume 1

Durée : 34 h et 6 min

4 out of 5 stars (14 notations)

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In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, Richard Cypher encounters a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, in his forest sanctuary. She seeks his help...and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.

In their darkest hour, 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.

This is the beginning. One book. One rule. Witness the birth of a legend.

Epic edge: listen to more in the Sword of Truth series.

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"Wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring." ( Kirkus Review)

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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 truly superb. But before you dive into this series you should know this is the only book that Sam narrates. The succeeding books are butchered by a revolving cast of utterly atrocious narrators. Therefore, I highly recommend that you read rather than listen to this series (aka, don't buy this audiobook!).

P.s. Do Not Leave a 5-Star Review If The Narration Is Only Worthy of 1-Star. People did this for each successive book in this series, so they appear on Audible with 4.5 star ratings even though every reviewer states that the books are "unlistenable".

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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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5 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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Hunter T.
17/11/2018

It brought back all my memories

I had read this book series in high school but never got around to finishing it. my current working situation allows me to listen while I'm at work so I started reading again this book has made me cry laugh yell and be turned on on the same day.

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Shari
28/03/2018

Not as good as I remembered

I read Wizards First Rule, and the rest of the series a few years ago and remember thinking the author was a bit puffed up, but the story was good. After this listen I've revised that opinion. The story could be good, if the author would just get on with it. If he would just tell the tale. If only he let the story flow. Instead he beat a dead horse, rewriting the same point in 2 or 3 sentences (see what I did there). It probably was meant to build dramatic tension, but it is such an overused technique that it makes the writing seem juvenile. As did the point in which while trying to enrage a would be rapist a character tells him to "do it to me".

As for the narrator, I don't know if he made the story worse, or the bad writing made him that bad. He cannot do a female voice, or really differentiate one character from another. This is not his genre. I imagine he'd do well with politicians memoirs.

As there is a different narrator I'll try Stone of Tears, but I have little hope for it. I would not recommend this book if you are an epic fantasy fan. If you like trashy semi-romance, cliche adventures that are poorly written, you'll love this one.

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Michael
08/07/2012

A Stereotypical Fantasy Story, But Well-Written...

The sign of an exceptional author is one that can write around his or her own worn plot, and still breathe life into it, In this case, Goodkind can really write a novel, despite the somewhat tired premise. Once again, an unsuspecting hero comes into his own, as his future destiny will shape and save a nation. Hmmm. We've heard this before from other audiobooks, but in this case, Goodkind takes the prize. You'll look past this issue, and love the way he brings the story, characters and magic together to create a powerful listen. And even better news - there are MANY other audiobooks in this series, and the plot DEFINITELY gets better at times.

So, this sweeping epic saga begins with this single audiobook, and is well worth your time.

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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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Mitchell
17/01/2018

....Not the best way to start.....

I am a huge Brandon Sanderson fan. This is not that type of writing. The epic feel of Brandon's stories is not present here.

What is present is a very close look at a hero and his journey to defeat an oppressive evil. Every good story makes a promise and then keeps it. A great story surprises you in how it keeps it, or makes you wish with all your heart that it is kept a certain way... and then tragedy or comedy shows you why it must not be kept that way or shows you that you were so right and you didn't understand how much so.

The author, in his effort to show the evil of the opponent, went too far in my opinion and at the same time failed to convince me of the motivations of the enemy. I felt the story wandered far too much. It was more like a reality show, than a movie.

With all that said, the book makes a sneaky promise, and at the end of the book it is kept. I won't tell you what it is. I'll leave it to you to see it. The author also surprised me about a few plot points, but it wasn't done as expertly as other authors have done, such as Brandon Sanderson, Anthony Ryan or even GRRM

As with all audio books, it can be difficult to separate out the writing from the speaker. I feel I can confidently say this reader was solid. A few sections I didn't like his interpretation of the writing, but overall I found him worth the listening. I would say he added something the original book lacks without him.

As a first book, this one was good. Terry Goodkind did a very good job of character development and world creation.

My one complaint is that he set the standard for the rest of his book, he created situations where his characters needed supernatural means to survive. Now a few of those situations were needed to reveal character's hidden talents, but to many in one book just starts to wear down the series if it continues with any frequency. If your main characters are backing themselves into that many corners one of two things are happening. Either your main characters are too stupid to survive, or in way over their heads and you have made your bad guys too good. In the first case it becomes pretty obvious fast if your characters are stupid and that's bad for buying in to the survariability of your characters. Goodkind avoids this by making his characters ignorant but smart. They aren't stupid so when they get into situations because of their ignorance you can buy into them getting out of it by using their brains. Where Goodkind makes his mistake is in the second situation. He makes his bad guys really good, but really dumb in some areas. You have the brains to send a deadly Mord Sith after your main character, but after your main character successfully defeats this same Mord Sith in front of your main bad guy, you give said main character free reign of the grounds for a number of days? Really?

I realize Goodkind was trying to show arrogance in his main bad guy, but that's not arrogance that's stupidity. No bad guy that had amassed as much power as Darkin Raul could be that stupid. This and a few other occurrences in the book are what drop it from a 4 star to a 3 star. This is a good story by itself, but a poor start to a series.

Is it worth buying? Possibly. I don't regret my purchase, but I am not overtly eager to continue the series.

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5 out of 5 stars

Andrea M.
27/11/2008

Classic Fantasy Series

Truly amazing characters, especially the idea of the confessors and Kahlan Amnel's character. The narrator of this book did good, especially with Zed's voice, although I will admit I laughed when I heard the night wisp's voice. That was a little strange. Overall, the reading was good, and this is one of my favorite medieval fantasy series. Side note: the series on television just isn't the same, but I'm watching it anyway.

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A. Yoshida
26/07/2014

Not for pre-teens

The book is engaging, particularly towards the end... that's if you lasted through the 500+ pages. The only drawback is the torture scenes toward the end. It would not be a book for pre-teens. The story is good and the characters are well developed, particularly Richard Cypher who is the Seeker of Truth. As with a typical quest, they encounter impossible challenges. The author does a great job of reframing the challenges to slowly reveal it is possible to overcome them all while the Seeker remains truthful.

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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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5 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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2 out of 5 stars

avaudebe
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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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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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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