Wizard's First Rule

Book Details

85.7% complete

Author(s):

Terry Goodkind

First Pub:

1994

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

2011

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Fantastic fiction
Fantasy fiction
Rahl, Richard (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Wizards - Fiction

Chapters:

49 chapters

Internal ID:

1520

Series:

Stone of Tears

Sword of Truth*

#1 of 18

Sword of Truth*

A series of fantasy books begun in 1994 by Terry Goodkind.

View this series in the book list

1) Wizard's First Rule
2) Stone of Tears
3) Blood of the Fold
4) Temple of the Winds
5) Soul of the Fire
6) Faith of the Fallen
7) The Pillars of Creation
8) Naked Empire
9) Chainfire
10) Phantom
11) Confessor
12) The Omen Machine
13) The Third Kingdom
14) Severed Souls
15) Warheart
16) Death's Mistress
17) Shroud of Eternity
18) Siege of Stone

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Jeri

First Sentence:

It was an odd-looking vine.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"Because she knows more about the underworld than anyone alive."

Comments:

No comments on file

Extract (may contain spoilers)

Richard placed the lamp on the side of the table, close to the wall, and lit it with a stick from the fire. The sound of gentle rain and night creatures drifted in from the window. The chirps and calls of small animals going about their nocturnal lives were familiar to him, comforting sounds of home. Home. His last night in his homeland, and then he was to cross into the Midlands. As his father had done. He smiled to himself at the irony. His father had brought the Book of Counted Shadows out of the Midlands, and now he was taking it back.

He sat down on the log round, across from Kahlan and Adie. "So, tell me, how do we find the pass?"

Adie leaned back in her chair and swept her hand through the air. "You already have. You be in the pass. The mouth of it anyway."

"And what do we need to know to get through it?"

"The pass be a void in the underworld, but it still be a land of the dead. You be living. The beasts hunt the living if the living be big enough to be of interest."

Richard looked at Kahlan's impassive face, then back to Adie. "What beasts?"

Adie's long finger pointed to each wall of the room in turn. "They be the bones of the beasts. Your friends were touched by things of the underworld. The bones confuse their powers. That be why I said your friends were being helped from the moment you brought them in here. The bones cause the magic poison to leave their bodies, letting the death sleep lift. The bones keep the evil away from here. The beasts cannot find me because they feel the evil of the bones and it blinds them, makes them think I be one of them."

Richard leaned forward. "If we took some of the bones with us, would that protect us?"

Added: 31-Jan-2015

Last Updated: 16-Sep-2024

Quotes

But here there is fire, to warm the people who tell me we are all equal now, how there will no longer be some put before others and I must therefore not be allowed to keep what is mine. Isn't it odd, that the people who tell me how we are to all be the same under the alliance with Darken Rahl and do no work other than to divide up the fruit of my labors, are all well fed, and warm, and have fine clothes on their backs. But my family goes hungry and cold.

Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
Fool

14-Sep-2010

RosettaBooks

Kindle e-Book

Date Issued:

14-Sep-2010

Format:

Kindle e-Book

Cover Price:

$8.99

Pages*:

852

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 1 Apr 2011 - 1 Apr 2011

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1832

Publisher:

RosettaBooks

ISBN:

Unknown

ISBN-13:

978-0-795-33114-5

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Terry Goodkind - Map
Keith Parkinson - Cover Artist

From amazon.com:

Wizard's First Rule, the first novel by Terry Goodkind, was a phenomenon from the moment it was published by Tor Books in 1994, selling more than 100,000 copies in North America alone. It still sells more than 100,000 copies a year and has gone on to bestsellerdom in the United Kingdom and in more than twenty foreign translations as well as audiobook form.

It is now being developed as one of the most ambitious television miniseries of all time. Executive Producer Sam Raimi (director of the three Spider-Man movies), in collaboration with Disney/ABC, is creating a 22-episode adaptation of the book to be filmed in New Zealand.

Richard and Kahlan's story unfolds over ten more novels, collectively known as the Sword of Truth series, concluding with Confessor in 2007. Placing Goodkind in the elite club of #1 New York Times bestselling authors, the series has sold more than twenty million copies to date worldwide.

In Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind introduced the world to an ordinary forest guide, Richard Cypher, and the mysterious, powerful woman he comes to love, Kahlan Amnell. Learning his true identity, Richard accepts his destiny as the one man who can stop the bloodthirsty tyrant Darken Rahl. Hunted relentlessly, betrayed and alone, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.

The importance of Wizard's First Rule is sourced in Goodkind taking on the toughest of all literary challenges: to tell an electrifying story of action, violence, and adventure that also makes people think, and that would influence the choices and actions of its readers.

Years after reading Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind fans still ask themselves, "What would Richard do?" when confronted with life's obstacles and challenges. "Your life is yours alone," Richard says at a key moment. "Rise up and live it."

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Other book covers for this series run

14-Sep-2010
RosettaBooks
Kindle e-Book

Author(s)

Terry Goodkind
Birth: Cir 01 Jan 1948 Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Death: 17 Sep 2020 Boulder City, Nevada, USA

Awards

No awards found

I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
When specific publication dates are unknown (ie prefixed with a "Cir"), I try to get the publication date that is closest to the specific printing that I can.
When listing chapters, I only list chapters relevant to the story. I will usually leave off Author Notes, Indices, Acknowledgements, etc unless they are relevant to the story or the book is non-fiction.
Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.

Search