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Title: Good plot -- one-dimensional writing and character devlpmnt.
Review: Read this book if you enjoy a story filled with similar one-dimensional characters.In 'Blood of the Fold,' Goodkind continuesto put together interesting plots that arefilled with characters who are either good or bad.The characters in this series behave and react so similarly that reading the book is like listeningto a musician play a single note, without inflection.Goodkind writes his characters at extremes. Characters are either weeping or jumping for joy,are either intelligently saving themselves orstupidly falling into the latest trap in orderto advance the plot.Mr. Goodkind should try to make use of subtlety and a real range of character types in his writing. In trying to avoid the constant barrage of extremes, he woulddo well to remember, as Anthony Lane of the New Yorker wrote, that there is nothing so boringas being excited all the time.
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