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Chainfire

(Sword of Truth, Book 9)

By Jim Bond, Terry Goodkind

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| Audio CD | 9781593358204

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“How much of this blood is his?”

“Most of it, I’m afraid,” a second woman said as they both rushed along beside him.

As Richard fought to focus his mind on his need to remain conscious, the breathless voices sounded to him as if they were coming from some greatContinue

“How much of this blood is his?”

“Most of it, I’m afraid,” a second woman said as they both rushed along beside him.

As Richard fought to focus his mind on his need to remain conscious, the breathless voices sounded to him as if they were coming from some great dim distance. He wasn’t sure who they were. He knew that he knew them, but right then it just didn’t seem to matter.

The crushing pain in the left side of his chest and his need for air had him at the ragged edge of panic. It was all he could do to try to pull each crucial breath.

Even so, he had a bigger worry.

Richard struggled to put voice to his burning concern, but he couldn’t form the words, couldn’t get out any more than a gasping moan. He clutched the arm of the woman beside him, desperate to get them to stop, to get them to listen. She misunderstood and instead urged the men carrying him to hurry, even though they already panted with the effort of bearing him over the rocky ground in the deep shade among the towering pines. They tried to be as gentle as possible, but they never dared to slow.

Not far off, a rooster crowed in the still air, as if this were an ordinary morning like any other.

Richard observed the storm of activity swirling around him with an odd sense of detachment. Only the pain seemed real. He remembered hearing it once said that when you died, no matter how many people were with you, you died alone. That's how he felt now - alone.

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  • The Best Reviews: Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

    "Terrific entry in the Sword of Truth series" Hit by an Imperial Order soldier's arrow, Richard Lord Rahl nears death until Sorceress Nikki uses a "Subtractive Magic" spell to save his life. When Richard recovers he learns that his wife Kahlan is mis ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • Don't, just, don't

    Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder.
    The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine. Fairly regular "epic fantasy" with an unknown becoming a hero, finding out that he was much more than he thought, and finding a girl to fall in love with as well as destroying evil.

    Some ... (continue)

    Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder.
    The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine. Fairly regular "epic fantasy" with an unknown becoming a hero, finding out that he was much more than he thought, and finding a girl to fall in love with as well as destroying evil.

    Somewhere along the way it all went wrong, but even now when I look back I see that preaching was always important in these books, it was just kept fairly subtle until later ones.

    After all when you think about it, Wizard's First Rule simply told us that people are stupid. Then we had the "democracy doesn't work" lecture, then the "socialism is evil" now we have "pacifists are moral cowards" and that "not fighting means you agree with whatever happens to you" that to be weak is to be evil."

    Hmmmm.
    Yet still I read these books, but let me tell you I'll not be buying any new hardbacks of them and thats for sure.

    The story of Naked Empire isn't all that great, and having a hero that is as in the right as richard really starts to get a bit wearing. So even if it didn't have all the really political subtext I don't think I'd be recommending this book. As it is, I suggest you leave this series and read something else.

    Basic message seems to be, people are either stupid or evil, therefore need a strong hand to rule them, ie a benevolent dictator. Its the only way to go.

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