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mariem_1 ([info]mariem_1) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2009-06-28 00:51:00
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PW review of Goodkind's new book
Publishers Weekly review of The Law of Nines:

The Law of Nines Terry Goodkind. Putnam, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15604-5

Bestseller Goodkind (Confessor) ventures into thriller territory with results sure to please fans of his fantasy fiction. In the opening pages, Alex Rahl, the book’s unwitting hero, saves the beautiful Jax from being run down on the street in Orden, Neb., by a plumbing truck flying a pirate flag. Jax, who turns out to be from an alternate reality where evildoers are attempting to seize control of her civilization, has traveled to Nebraska to seek Alex’s help in saving her people. In Jax’s world, magic takes the place of technology, but on earth she’s stripped of her powers and forced to fight armed with only her trusty dagger. The author takes his time setting all this up, but once the story gets rolling, it’s a gripping ride as the bad guys whoosh in between their world, which remains unseen, and ours. Fantasy and thriller readers alike will find themselves swept along to the final confrontation and looking forward to the next installment. (Sept.)

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[info]white_serpent
2009-06-27 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Silly them. Terry Goodkind doesn't write fantasy. He writes novels. About characters.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-06-27 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Mmm-hmm.

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[info]chikane
2009-06-28 04:59 pm UTC (link)
And about evil chicken.

They are important, I heard.

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[info]seiberwing
2009-06-27 11:17 pm UTC (link)
by a plumbing truck flying a pirate flag

This is the only part of the description that interests me.

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[info]madam_marozi
2009-06-28 05:46 am UTC (link)
If I didn't know what I know about Goodkind, I might be tempted to read this, based on the promise of freebootin' plumbers from another dimension.

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[info]bienegold
2009-06-27 11:23 pm UTC (link)
Twenty. Eight. Dollars.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-06-27 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I wonder how many pounds of actual fertilizer you could buy for that.

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[info]kosaginolegion
2009-06-27 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Per Lowes, about 15 lbs.

Hey, you asked.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-06-28 04:23 am UTC (link)
I did, and almost went looking myself. Thanks!

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[info]kosaginolegion
2009-06-28 05:09 am UTC (link)
Of course, the link is to the high class concentrated stuff. For something comparable to the contents of said book, one might want to go straight to the farmer for a fifty lb bag of cow manure.

Or perhaps chicken droppings would be more appropriate? EVIL chicken droppings.

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[info]msmanna
2009-06-30 12:00 pm UTC (link)
There's a farm down the road from me which gives bags of horse shit away for free. I think that's a better match to the real value of a Terry Goodkind book.

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[info]khym_chanur
2009-06-27 11:26 pm UTC (link)
After reading "a plumbing truck flying a pirate flag" I thought this was a send-up, but no, it's for real. I hope the new book has something at least as lulztastic as the Evil Chicken.

*cluck cluck*

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[info]seiberwing
2009-06-28 01:33 am UTC (link)
I would read a story about pirates who drive around in a plumbing truck. It would be better than this.

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[info]tetradecimal
2009-06-27 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Alex Rahl, the book’s unwitting hero, saves the beautiful Jax

*yawn*

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[info]mmanurere
2009-06-27 11:43 pm UTC (link)
Yeah...when the dude can't even come up with a new family name for his new Randian superman, you know the dude's creativity's approaching the lows last charted by his idol.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-06-28 01:31 am UTC (link)
Hey, Rahl is but two letters away from Rand. that's probably why.

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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-06-28 05:22 am UTC (link)
I for one would like to read a story about Ayn Rand driving a pirate plumbing truck.

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[info]waltraute
2009-06-28 12:47 pm UTC (link)
If you want something actually funny involving Ayn Rand, I recommend Sewer, Gas, Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. That may not be the exact title, but that'll find you the book.

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[info]b_jellybean
2009-06-28 11:46 pm UTC (link)
You have it 99% right, IIRC.

Looooooooove Matt Ruff.

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[info]platedlizard
2009-06-28 01:38 am UTC (link)
If Jax was chubby and a bit on the plain side I might have been interested.

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[info]cassildra
2009-06-27 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Goodkind has an obsession with the surname Rahl, hot shit.

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[info]goblin
2009-06-28 04:52 am UTC (link)
As fixations go, it's so...silly.

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[info]damien
2009-06-28 01:04 am UTC (link)
Rahl. AGAIN?

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[info]sineala
2009-06-28 04:05 am UTC (link)
Rahl? *And* Orden? Jeez. At first I thought this was some kind of Terry-Goodkind-writes-thrillers parody, but this is the actual book? Wow. Um. Not buying.

(No, no, I didn't read every one of the Sword of Truth series and I don't know what you're talking about. At least I stopped buying them after the fifth one or so? :P)

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[info]beccastareyes
2009-06-28 04:39 am UTC (link)
Orden sounded familiar, even though I know nothing about Goodkind. Turns out I was just thinking of Ord, Nebraska.

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[info]kalakagatha
2009-06-28 07:24 pm UTC (link)
This.

And...um....is that the bird from the cover of Bargainville? Awesome. :D

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[info]sineala
2009-06-28 10:51 pm UTC (link)
It is! (I used it as my very first LJ icon, eight years ago, so I figured if I was going to have one icon here, that should be it.)

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[info]kalakagatha
2009-06-29 12:46 pm UTC (link)
Hee. That album was the soundtrack of my life in 1993. We loved Früvous in Buffalo.

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[info]notjo
2009-06-28 04:32 am UTC (link)
Wait, this isn't another Sword of Truth book?

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[info]beccastareyes
2009-06-28 04:37 am UTC (link)
I have the feeling that this is going to end up like some CLAMP-esque thing with the same-names and world crossing.

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[info]khym_chanur
2009-06-28 05:41 am UTC (link)
Someone loses an eye, and there's copious flying feather and sakura petals?

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-06-28 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Gay subtext up the wazoo?

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[info]agent_hyatt
2009-06-28 08:26 pm UTC (link)
It won't be CLAMP-esque until there's clones and timey-wimey balls and at least one trolling "big reveal" revealed to be a fake-out.

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[info]goblin
2009-06-28 04:53 am UTC (link)
No bets on whether Jax has to fight off a rape attempt. Or five or six.

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(Anonymous)
2009-06-28 05:55 am UTC (link)
I think the betting is more on how many.

Numbers start with double digits.

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[info]brennalarose
2009-06-28 06:55 am UTC (link)
Rahl? Goodkind, are you going someplace special with that?

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[info]tarash
2009-06-28 12:19 pm UTC (link)
See, at the mention of Rahl and Orden, I thought it was going to be 'hahaha, Goodkind can only write one thing so obviously his non-fantasy will be exactly the same as his fantasy stuff' parody.

But now that it's REAL, and there's the mention of an alternate world with magic, I think Goodkind is setting up some sort of giant crossover with the Sword of Truth world, because from what I heard, that series ended with Richard making a world without magic AKA our world.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-06-28 04:47 pm UTC (link)
I can only hope that this culminates in everyone going to visit the Witch of Time and Yuuko doling out slaps among all the characters until the dumb falls out.

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[info]agent_hyatt
2009-06-28 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately, she's not in a position to do that anymore without time travel.

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(Anonymous)
2009-06-28 04:55 pm UTC (link)
"Next installment"..?

Uh oh.

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[info]chikane
2009-06-28 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Sounds like every single thriller in existance.

Oh, yay, unwitting [hero] saves of course uber-beautiful sexy but of course helpless [weak heroine] from [DOOM]. They then discover [conspiracy]'s plot to take over the world by [random mcguffin]

At least the [DOOM] part is creative this time. I hope it will contain at least two evil chicken and a good shark.

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[info]goblin
2009-06-29 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Ye gods, I'd forgotten about the evil chicken.

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(Anonymous)
2009-06-29 01:47 am UTC (link)
Jesus.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-06-29 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Jesus has no place here!
"No Gods Or Kings, Only Man."

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