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Title: Empty world, empty heads
Review: Terry Goodkind's "world" is just a bunch ofstuck-together cliches without a life of itsown. Some may say that Goodkind is "holding back" on world details because he is using Richard's viewpoint, but Frodo Baggins knew even less than Richard about Middle Earth at large and Tolkien's world still came alive in the first chapter of the first book. If the author truly has spent time on his world, there's just a "knowing" quality to the writing...even though there may not be a lot of details, we still feel like the author knows this place well and is taking us on a tour of it. With Goodkind, this feeling is noticably absent.
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