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And he doesn't even do anything with what he rips off! Every character is just a robotic cutout, following a script designed to try to make the reader feel something, regardless of how the character would act in "real life". Now as for the women-hating, geez. If there were a valuable message from all this I guess it would be ok, but there is none! It is completely gratuitous and, more disturbingly, seemingly meant to titillate in some cases. With Denna, Goodkind at least tries to explore the psyche of a woman who has gone through such ordeals. But that's the extent of his merits, after that he just uses misogyny as an easy and lazy way to get the reader riled up.

He apparently does not have the talent to provoke the reader in any other way. Finally, then I start reading about the author, the interviews, etc. He is not a likable person. There is a seediness that permeates this author and his writing. He is a machiavellian and misogynistic delusional douche. I think that sums up Goodkind in a nutshell.

I'm done with the series - unfortunately the second book was a big disappointment to me - very repetitive, with an irritating forever whining hero, and soooo long. As usual, the sequel is inferior to the first novel. Stone of Tears is pretty much the same as the first book in the series.

Richard is once again being tortured, Kahlan cries all the time and I keep trying not to fall asleep or throw the book on the opposite wall. Maybe, I will finish it some day, but it won't be today. I was pushing through despite my dislike for the first book in the series because I'm not a quitter.

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But when I get to a scene of skinning someone alive followed by rape, I have had enough. This is a violent, dark book with no redeeming qualities. The world-building is derivative with parts of it almost identical to Wheel of Time all of the parts I hated in WOT, actually and the characters are not strong enough to carry the mess of a plot. I don't know why anyone liked this, let alon I'm done. I don't know why anyone liked this, let alone why it was so popular. Different times, I guess.

Where do I even start with this series? First of all, the main characters are horrible and annoying and I can't possibly buy their romance at all. Also, confessors can't get pregnant without turning men into mindless zombies because they can't control their power in the "throes of passion"? Women don't need to be turned on to have sex and get pregnant! Furthermore, artificial insemination isn't rocket science! Terry Goodkind you are an idiot. And you can fuck directly off wit Where do I even start with this series?

And you can fuck directly off with that insanely scarring gang rape scene that made me DNF this one and throw it across the room. I am part of the later camp. I read Wizards First rule some time ago, and cannot say I was really impressed, but it did show enough potential to continue reading. I picked this book up and put it down several times over the past 2 years, and could only read a few chapters before I again would give up reading. Here are reasons I hated this book: The written dialogue that is included to progress so much of the story I know from some reviews that people either loved this book or REALLY hated it.

The written dialogue that is included to progress so much of the story line is choppy at best and may look okay on a printed page, but would not go over very well when spoken aloud. Characters gie long, redundant explanations for things that they would never state if this was happening in real time. One of my favorite examples is when Richard comes out of the room and the guard explains to him that he has been gone for hours and then gives a detailed account of what Richards magic is like as if the soldier knew Richard did not have a concept of time or what his magic did.

Richard is so flippin stubborn throughout most of the book to the point you just want to slap him in the face to get him to shut up and listen for 2 seconds. My hatred for this character was so strong, I was begging for him to just shut up and do something besides complain.

Unneccesary erotic and graphic details. Is that what a woman really thinks about every time she gets into a bath? At times it seems women in this story are less characters and more objects that are subjected to torture and sexual advances. Most men in the story look like sick perverts and women who are around for pillaging and rape. There was just too much rape for this story to be believable. Most of the men would have no qualms about chopping up children and raping their body parts to be comfortable with. Oh and I almost forgot the details of defecation that came after.

Goodkind's crap moral philosophy. He again and again with redundance ad nauseaum tries to make the torturer into a good guy, and make you feel sorry for them because they were tortured. Denna being the example that jumps to mind. She tortures Richard half to death but then Richard falls in love with her because her only redeeming quality is that she was tortured herself as a child, and that should make her a good guy.

Kahlan later forgives her as well for torturing Richard because she appears to her in a vision. It would be comparable in my mind for making an abusive father a good guy because he was abused himself so he does not have to be accountable for his actions because he was just using what he already knew. Richard is another example. He kills the council for sentancing Kahlan to death, but has no remorse for his actions, stating only that he was angry.

As if it is okay to engage in mindless slaughter if you are angry enough, and then try to pass it off as justice. I know Terry Goodkind has overcome many struggles to become a writer, but the writing in this is just poor. There seems to be a revisting of concepts too many times, and a waste of space on pages. There is even a whole chapter that includes Kahlan explaining in painful unimportant details how the concept of money works.

It feels at times as if he is explaining to the reader how they were ripped off if they bought this book.

Foil characters are overly simplistic and really stupid. When Kahlan stumbles on an army of new recruits, and the officer has a plan as to how 3, soldiers are going to defeat an army of 30, by surrounding him. I had to roll my eyes. You think about of 3, people one of them may say to their leader - hey you think they out number us? What suggestions the support characters give are so incredibly lame, with the intent that the main characters look good because they have at least enough common sense to say "wait a minute maybe killing people is wrong.

Ma la cosa peggiore sono i due idioti che ci vengono imposti come protagonisti. Richard per tutto il libro non fa che comportarsi come un bulletto di periferia, viziato e arr Recensione: Tutti i cattivi hanno come tratto distintivo "stupratore". The world Goodkind has made for this universe appears to have been made up while severely intoxicated or seriously ill with a high fever; It is horrifyingly simple, to the point where it becomes so improbable it automatically lands itself in the "Seriously bad fantasy" realm.

Sadly, Goodkind does not stop there, many of his characters and items as well as plots are ripoffs from other books. You will unmistakably fint the white witch from Narnia, Gollum from Lord of the Rings, the One Ring as well, and plenty others. Goodkind appears to have lost all imagination when he wrote this. To add insult to injury it seems the series was written by a thoroughly sex-starved Goodkind. Several of the groups to which you must read about are in one way or another quite sex-crazed.

And, of course, composed solely of women. It is also poorly concealed conservative American style conservative propaganda. This would almost have been okay if it was not the MacArthy kind of conservatism, catering to the Tea Party nuts of today and whatever the s equivalent was. It could even have been hilariously funny, consider how daft the concept of sex-crazed marxist BDSM mind-reading and bending witches really is. Sadly, it's not a joke. This is probably the only series I have stopped reading because it was unbearably bad.

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Read at your own peril. The author exploits the generic fantasy plot, with little substance in between. Funnily enough, I read the first third of it at the most - until shortly after the protagonists left the Mud People- and then decided that the plot wasn't travelling along as speedily as I would have liked. Skip to the end and- wow! Not reading it, I'll let you be the judge, but that's certainly the conclusion I came to.

A note about the author's overuse of violence and sex often merged into violent sex! It was after a violent scene featuring a human having sex with a beast, complete with unspeakably grotesque descriptions, that I decided this book was not for me, and skipped to the end. These scenes did not add anything to the story's plot, and in my opinion are simply likely to be the product of a depraved mind. This was a real disappointment, as I enjoyed much of the first book in the series, but I cannot say it strongly enough: Awful lot of raping going on in this book.

Couldn't go 20 pages without some female character being raped, or being threatened with rape, or alluding to rape. I actually had nightmares about rape because of all the suggestion. Its like the worse possible thing that anyone could do to these women is rape them. It got old and it got disturbing. It was an emotional drain. I'm reluctant to pick up the next book for fear of reading more abundant graphic violence against women. And the heartsick betwee Awful lot of raping going on in this book.

And the heartsick between Khalen and Richard was nauseating. And the characters don't seem to develop a whole lot. The bad guys are just unimaginably evil and and the good guys completely pure and noble and gain victory by letting their rage at injustice and instinct take over. Richard makes mistake in the beginning of the book but lucky for the protagonist he never actually has to suffer the consequences of his actions but rather he and his beloved escape all horror and harm to be nauseatingly happy in the end.

Not that happy endings aren't good, but this is over the top cheesy. First off, I just have to admit that I'm not sure whether I've read this book or not, but I did read the "let's read" of it on Something Awful and bits of it seemed familiar. But on the other hand, I may just be conflating it with Wheel of Time, because it's essentially the same thing but with all the worst bits turned up to This book is long, not much happens, and what does happen is terrible and badly-written.

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The protagonist and basically every other character is awful, the story is reso First off, I just have to admit that I'm not sure whether I've read this book or not, but I did read the "let's read" of it on Something Awful and bits of it seemed familiar. The protagonist and basically every other character is awful, the story is resolved by some last-minute deus-ex-machina nonsense, and there's basically nothing of value in this entire book.

Oh, and there's a lot of rape. It's just the worst. Don't read this book. I was mildly disappointed with the first book in the series, the second book however verified my distaste. The characters seem to be fairly one dimensional and there has been little to no development since the first book. The author simply sees fit to revisit the same character issues over and over and over again and it became very tiring. The setting doesn't add anything to the genre, it just contains all the cliche fantasy elements that you would expect.

Too often the plot is moved along or in I was mildly disappointed with the first book in the series, the second book however verified my distaste. Too often the plot is moved along or interrupted in ways that aren't really developed to any purpose except increasing the page count. Worse yet, the plot developments that are important get ruined by foreshadowing so heavy that you see them coming miles away. I was first drawn to this series after watching the TV show.

The two are very different, but the first book "Wizard's First Rule" was ok. Some of the evil things done in the book made me uncomfortable, but they weren't too much to handle and they were fairly short scenes. When I started with this book however, I was disgusted enough to quit reading. I understand that they are battling evil and so the villians needs to play their role.

I was just too disturbed to continue with this series. I will I was first drawn to this series after watching the TV show. I will continue to enjoy the TV show although it is now sadly over , but I don't think I can stomach any more of Mr. The only book I've ever removed from my library.

Please avoid it all costs. I won't go I to how terrible and juvenile the writing is. The excessive rape and torture come from a sick and twisted man. It isn't once, or twice, but continuous throughout the book. This book made me clear Goodkind off my reading list completely. Wizard's First Rule was entertaining enough to keep me interested in continuing, despite its issues, but these issues only became worse. Goodkind's readiness to write about rape raised red flags in the first book, but became disturbing in this one. Great job, Terry Goodkind. You took decent characters and turned them all into bumbling idiots.

Richard becomes an obstinate fool, while Kahlan becomes a whimpering, needy sap. All other characters follow the same degrading path, and even new characters like Sister Verna are infuriating. And what is up with the author's obsession with bondage? There is no way I'm continuing on with this series. I'm pages in and nothing's happened and I just can't with the pseudosexual torture and rapey overtones.

The Sisters just make me gag with their ridiculous lies and lying is bad and religious crap. And I hate characters that are so easily swayed from their convictions. I loved the first one but I can't continue. Which is sad cause I had high hopes for this series. Long, rambling, and rape out the wazoo. Seriously, hundreds of women are raped in this book, and I'm not exaggerating. This book could've easily been half its length without losing anything important.

Unfortunately I did not enjoy this sequel at all. The author took too long to get to the climax and throughout the majority of the book, nothing substantial occurs, he just skirts from one issue to another. When he finally gets to the crux of the matter, so much is happening simultaneously that he leaves his reader behind. I found the book tedious and long winded! The whole thing with Richard not accepting that he has the gift when it is glaringly obvious that he does was tedious and added nothi Unfortunately I did not enjoy this sequel at all.

The whole thing with Richard not accepting that he has the gift when it is glaringly obvious that he does was tedious and added nothing to the plot except for making a drawn out process. The Zed and Adie sickness and subsequent memory loss is another part I just skimmed through. For objects of such great significance as the skrin bone and stone of tears, they did not feature that much in the storyline. Gosh don't get me started on the ending. It always irritates me how writers who constantly make reference to consequences for actions, whether intended or unintended, always seem to ensure that the hero and the heroin always come up on top.

What happened to consequences? In Richard's case the mord-sith Denna was one of his consequences in the first book, where are the consequences for Kahlan? Even Richard in this second book, does not seem to be unable to let himself out of any situation he creates through his consequences. He seems to always, in the nick of time pull through to the extent that as you read the book you expect it, there are no surprises.

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While the first couple books of the Sword of Truth aren't as batshit awful as the rest of the series, it's still not enjoyable. I only read through them when I was a teenager, young and not terribly bright. However, if there's one thing I gained from reading these books, it's how to spot the trends in bad pop fiction. Particularly with the early novels, the Sword of Truth series is pretty derivative fantasy fare: Medieval setting, wizard mentor, lost magics, an unbreakable sword, an evil overlor While the first couple books of the Sword of Truth aren't as batshit awful as the rest of the series, it's still not enjoyable.

Medieval setting, wizard mentor, lost magics, an unbreakable sword, an evil overlord, a mysterious witch, a love interest who is not as she seems. The aforementioned bad writing tropes include plodding narratives, cardboard characters, unimaginative worldbuilding, and too many more to list. For whatever reason, The Sword of Truth series has been pretty high profile in the fantasy genre, despite doing little new.

He must've had a good publicist. La tradizione e lo stile dell' Impero romano predominava ancora, ma gradualmente emerse la cultura del libro medievale. I monaci irlandesi introdussero la spaziatura tra le parole nel VII secolo. L'innovazione fu poi adottata anche nei Paesi neolatini come l'Italia , anche se non divenne comune prima del XII secolo. Si ritiene che l'inserimento di spazi tra le parole abbia favorito il passaggio dalla lettura semi-vocalizzata a quella silenziosa. Prima dell'invenzione e della diffusione del torchio tipografico , quasi tutti i libri venivano copiati a mano, il che li rendeva costosi e relativamente rari.

I piccoli monasteri di solito possedevano al massimo qualche decina di libri, forse qualche centinaio quelli di medie dimensioni. Il processo della produzione di un libro era lungo e laborioso. Infine, il libro veniva rilegato dal rilegatore [26]. Le copertine erano fatte di legno e ricoperte di cuoio. Esistono testi scritti in rosso o addirittura in oro, e diversi colori venivano utilizzati per le miniature. A volte la pergamena era tutta di colore viola e il testo vi era scritto in oro o argento per esempio, il Codex Argenteus.

Per tutto l'Alto Medioevo i libri furono copiati prevalentemente nei monasteri, uno alla volta. Il sistema venne gestito da corporazioni laiche di cartolai , che produssero sia materiale religioso che profano [28]. Nelle prime biblioteche pubbliche i libri venivano spesso incatenati ad una libreria o scrivania per impedirne il furto. Questi libri furono chiamati libri catenati. Vedi illustrazione a margine. L' ebraismo ha mantenuto in vita l'arte dello scriba fino ad oggi. Anche gli arabi produssero e rilegarono libri durante il periodo medievale islamico , sviluppando tecniche avanzate di calligrafia araba , miniatura e legatoria.

Col metodo di controllo, solo "gli autori potevano autorizzare le copie, e questo veniva fatto in riunioni pubbliche, in cui il copista leggeva il testo ad alta voce in presenza dell'autore, il quale poi la certificava come precisa". In xilografia , un'immagine a bassorilievo di una pagina intera veniva intarsiata su tavolette di legno, inchiostrata e usata per stampare le copie di quella pagina. Questo metodo ebbe origine in Cina , durante la Dinastia Han prima del a.

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I monaci o altri che le scrivevano, venivano pagati profumatamente. I primi libri stampati, i singoli fogli e le immagini che furono creati prima del in Europa, sono noti come incunaboli. Folio 14 recto del Vergilius romanus che contiene un ritratto dell'autore Virgilio. Da notare la libreria capsa , il leggio ed il testo scritto senza spazi in capitale rustica. Leggio con libri catenati , Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena. Incunabolo del XV secolo. Si noti la copertina lavorata, le borchie d'angolo e i morsetti. Insegnamenti scelti di saggi buddisti , il primo libro stampato con caratteri metallici mobili, Le macchine da stampa a vapore diventarono popolari nel XIX secolo.

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Le macchine tipografiche monotipo e linotipo furono introdotte verso la fine del XIX secolo. Nel [34] nasce il Progetto Gutenberg , lanciato da Michael S. Hart , la prima biblioteca di versioni elettroniche liberamente riproducibili di libri stampati. I libri a stampa sono prodotti stampando ciascuna imposizione tipografica su un foglio di carta.

Le varie segnature vengono rilegate per ottenere il volume. L'apertura delle pagine, specialmente nelle edizioni in brossura , era di solito lasciata al lettore fino agli anni sessanta del XX secolo , mentre ora le segnature vengono rifilate direttamente dalla tipografia. Nei libri antichi il formato dipende dal numero di piegature che il foglio subisce e, quindi, dal numero di carte e pagine stampate sul foglio. Le "carte di guardia", o risguardi, o sguardie, sono le carte di apertura e chiusura del libro vero e proprio, che collegano materialmente il corpo del libro alla coperta o legatura.

Non facendo parte delle segnature , non sono mai contati come pagine. Si chiama "controguardia" la carta che viene incollata su ciascun "contropiatto" la parte interna del "piatto" della coperta, permettendone il definitivo ancoraggio. In origine era costituito dalla firma del copista o dello scriba, e riportava data, luogo e autore del testo; in seguito fu la formula conclusiva dei libri stampati nel XV e XVI secolo che conteneva, spesso in inchiostro rosso, il nome dello stampatore, luogo e data di stampa e l'insegna dell'editore. Usata raramente fino a tutto il Settecento quando solitamente l'editore vendeva i libri slegati o applicava una semplice copertina di protezione, che veniva poi gettata dal legatore divenne molto popolare a partire dai primi anni dell' Ottocento , forse su impulso degli stampatori Brasseur di Parigi [38].

Nel libro antico poteva essere rivestita di svariati materiali: Poteva essere decorata con impressioni a secco o dorature. Ciascuno dei due cartoni che costituiscono la copertina viene chiamato piatto. Nel XIX secolo la coperta acquista una prevalente funzione promozionale. Ha caratterizzato a lungo l'editoria per l'infanzia e oggi, ricoperto da una "sovraccoperta", costituisce il tratto caratteristico delle edizioni maggiori. Le "alette" o "bandelle" comunemente dette "risvolti di copertina" sono le piegature interne della copertina o della sovraccoperta vedi infra.

Generalmente vengono utilizzate per una succinta introduzione al testo e per notizie biografiche essenziali sull'autore. Di norma, riporta le indicazioni di titolo e autore. I libri con copertina cartonata in genere sono rivestiti da una "sovraccoperta". I tagli possono essere al naturale, decorati o colorati in vario modo. In questi ultimi casi, si parla di "taglio colore", nel passato usati per distinguere i libri religiosi o di valore dalla restante produzione editoriale, utilizzando una spugna imbevuta di inchiostri all' anilina anni del XX secolo [39].

Dalla fine degli anni novanta vengono svolti in labbratura con colori a base d'acqua. Riporta solitamente titolo, autore, e editore del libro. Sovente riporta un motto. Assente nel libro antico. I primi incunaboli e manoscritti non avevano il frontespizio, ma si aprivano con una carta bianca con funzione protettiva. Nel XVII secolo cede la parte decorativa all' antiporta e vi compaiono le indicazioni di carattere pubblicitario riferite all'editore, un tempo riservate al colophon. In epoca moderna, le illustrazioni e parte delle informazioni si sono trasferite sulla copertina o sulla sovraccoperta e altre informazioni nel verso del frontespizio.

I nervi possono essere lasciati a vista e messi in evidenza attraverso la "staffilatura" , oppure nascosti in modo da ottenere un dorso liscio. Nel libro moderno i nervi sono di norma finti, apposti per imitare l'estetica del libro antico e conferire importanza al libro. Se esse fanno parte integrante del testo sono chiamate illustrazioni. Esse hanno una numerazione di pagina distinta da quella del testo; vengono impresse su una carta speciale, quasi sempre una carta patinata [41].

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