The Omen Machine
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Oi, where's the REAL Terry Goodkind?
Eric
Sep 21, 2011 01:29PM
I love Terry Goodkind, I really do. I was hooked on the Sword of Truth from page one of Wizard's First Rule, through the good, the bad and the boring alike. So, uh, who is the one that's been writing awful books under his name? The last two books published by "Terry Goodkind" read like they were written by a twelve year old. The style, depth and imagination is COMPLETELY gone. It's so different that it honestly feels like a completely different author wrote them. Did he have a stroke or something and lose some brain functionality? The Law of Nines and The Omen Machine were not written by the same man that wrote Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears and Faith of the Fallen. So where's the REAL Terry Goodkind, and can we stop getting these horribly written, boring, underdeveloped, nonsensical crapfests from someone posing as him please?
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I would have to say there has definitely been a decline since Faith Of The Fallen in terms of his writing.
I wasn't as disgusted with this book as some of you. In fact I found it really easy to read. It's written in a way that you can just breeze through it as long as you don't dwell on the annoying bits.
The problem is that it's a little too breezy if you ask me. Nothing other than the new villains has any sense of development or growth to it. There wasn't anything to really sink your teeth into if you know what I mean.
But hey, at least we got a typical "Richard suddenly realizes what he must do to solve the problem" type ending, right? *eyeroll*
I wasn't as disgusted with this book as some of you. In fact I found it really easy to read. It's written in a way that you can just breeze through it as long as you don't dwell on the annoying bits.
The problem is that it's a little too breezy if you ask me. Nothing other than the new villains has any sense of development or growth to it. There wasn't anything to really sink your teeth into if you know what I mean.
But hey, at least we got a typical "Richard suddenly realizes what he must do to solve the problem" type ending, right? *eyeroll*
The Law of Nines was not even close...The Omen Machine was closer to the storyline I know and love but weak. Unfortunately I began to see a correlation between Law and Omen...coming together at some point. Sad but true. I can remember the day I absently picked up WFR in the store to give it a try~the way FOTF was so brilliant...and here we are. "Money changes everything."...
Law of Nines was a really good books, and I too hope for a sequel.
The man writes an amazing series of this depth and detail and you are complaining because the next books are different. Before you tear down an wonderful author, compare what you consider to be weak books to the other books out there, not just to his other work. How many authors maintain the quality and quantity of the Sword of Truth series. It is okay to be disappointed but it isn't necessary to be cruel.
The man writes an amazing series of this depth and detail and you are complaining because the next books are different. Before you tear down an wonderful author, compare what you consider to be weak books to the other books out there, not just to his other work. How many authors maintain the quality and quantity of the Sword of Truth series. It is okay to be disappointed but it isn't necessary to be cruel.
Well, it seems he likes writing the quickly paced books like TOM and LON now. The next one in the series will probably be like that also unless he got tons of bad responses.
I haven't yet read Law of Nines (though I intended to) so can't comment on that. But I did like The Omen Machine. Yeah, I will concede that it wasn't exactly up to the standards of some of the others in the series but I can't say that I hated it. And at least it wasn't as bad as Pillars, nearly gave up on that one and will probably never read it again. Anyway, maybe he just needs to get back into it since he took a while off in between books. The way Omen ended it seems he intends to write more, hopefully he will put a bit more effort into the next one.
The Law of Nines and The Omen Machine were not written by the same man that wrote Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears and Faith of the Fallen. EXACTLY!! I'm reading LoN right now. The only reason I'm still reading it is because gas is over $3 a gallon and the used bookstore I bought it from is over 30 miles away. I was all giddy when I bought it a few weeks ago (I'd been keeping an eye out for it), but within three pages, I was checking to make sure Terry Goodkind was printed on the cover, and not Teri Hoodwinked, or something like that. I've spent more time trying to uncover the ghost writer he used rather than reading the book. It's that bad. And what's worse, I purchased "The Omen Machine" for my Kindle when it became available, but was waiting to read LoN first. Ugh.
Come on, Joe Abercrombie, quite playing video games and write another book!
Come on, Joe Abercrombie, quite playing video games and write another book!
At least I was not alone in thinking this. The last two books were just plain awful and I can't imagine why they were published at all. The Omen Machine was SO...DAMN...REPETITIVE. ugh. No imagination at all. And I remember being SO excited for the Law of Nines and when I finished it I couldn't believe it was written by my favorite author, it just didn't fit his style.
What's with all the hate for Law of Nines? I like Richard and Kahlan better, but Law of nines was great! I hope he does a sequel.
I haven't read either of these books yet and I really hope you guys are wrong Im a big fan and want his books to be good
Agreed!!! When I read The Omen Machine, I was so disappointed!! Did he self publish or something? He must need more proof readers, or perhaps he changed editors. I don't know!
I almost slammed the book down when I started it. The writing was messy with run on sentences, the structure was sloppy, and the plot was simple. We were reintroduced to each character in a way that bored me. The plot was highly predictable without the plots within plots and scale given to his Sword of Truth series. The least he could have done was imply a bigger game.
Then the baddie was lame, and Richard tackled the problem in a way that was blunt and rather pointless: ooh she's impossible to overcome, no wait, Richard just won. Again.
Did not at all satisfy, and, by the sounds of you guys, I probably won't be reading Law of Nines.
I almost slammed the book down when I started it. The writing was messy with run on sentences, the structure was sloppy, and the plot was simple. We were reintroduced to each character in a way that bored me. The plot was highly predictable without the plots within plots and scale given to his Sword of Truth series. The least he could have done was imply a bigger game.
Then the baddie was lame, and Richard tackled the problem in a way that was blunt and rather pointless: ooh she's impossible to overcome, no wait, Richard just won. Again.
Did not at all satisfy, and, by the sounds of you guys, I probably won't be reading Law of Nines.
How to sum up the omen machine : the writing is awful. The dialogue are worse. Why ? Because i loved those characters and they've become grotesque caricatures. The story is cliché, everything happens because the author needs it to happen this particular way so he can tell us a story. A story that didn't surprise me, move me. The (few) new characters are given the cheapest characterization. I mean nothing in this book is good. I'm saying what's already been said but it does feel like bad fanfiction.
He love the money from a successful series, but he has run out of ideas. He's bored with the whole world and it shows.
I hadn't read the earlier Terry Goodkind for quite some time. So I thought perhaps I had raised my critical bar over that time. But I couldn't really believe that I had enthused over so many books if they had been written so mediocrely. I agree. I think he has run out of puff in his world of Richard and Kahlan.
It does seem like the last few books, especially "Confessor", have been written by someone not in reality Terry Goodkind. Now, they're so repetitive, the plot is too simple, and the characters lack depth. Disappointed.
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