Sunday, April 7, 2013

The Sword of Truth Series

Terry Goodkind is one of my favorite author. He wrote the Fantasy Series "The Sword of Truth". The series is a good and easy read. I enjoyed all the books in the series, next to Harry Potter. I must warn you that this series is not like Harry Potter, this is Grown-Up Fantasy. It starts with "Wizard's First Rule".

=> Debt of Bones (1998) (Prequel novella)

1. Wizard's First Rule (1994) - read
2. Stone of Tears (1995) - read
3. Blood of the Fold (1996) - read
4. Temple of the Winds (1997) - read
5. Soul of the Fire (1999) - read
6. Faith of the Fallen (2000) - read
7. The Pillars of Creation (2002) - read
8. Naked Empire (2003)
9. Chainfire (2005)
10. Phantom (2006)
11. Confessor (2007) - read

=> The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus (2012) (Prequel novella)

1. The Omen Machine (2011)
2. The Third Kingdom (Summer 2013)

=> The Law of Nines (2009) (Related novel)

Terry Goodkind writing style is really good and easy, as the story goes it takes on a Fast pace. All his novels has a specific Philosophical Theme. He is also a Big Fan of my all-time favorite author Ayn Rand.

Every Books emphasizes a particular Rule called "Wizard's Rules". The first 3 of the Rules are:
  • “People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true.”
  • “The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
  • “Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”
Enjoy Reading the series guys !!!

Great Mind Altering Books

These Books will alter your perception and views about the world.
  • Adams, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
      Life, the Universe, and Everything
      So Long, and thanks for all the fish
      Mostly Harmless
    • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • Richard Adams
    • Watership Down
  • Allende, Isobel
    • The House of the Spirits
  • Asimov, Isaac - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Foundation
    • The Bicentennial Man
  • Banks, Iain 
    • The Bridge
    • Use of Weapons
  • Bantok, Nick
    • Griffin and Sabine
  • Barth, John
    • Chimera
  • Bear, Greg
    • Blood Music
  • Bester, Alfred
    • Tiger! Tiger!
  • Bey, Hakim
    • Temporary Autonomous Zone
  • Block, Francesca Lia
    • Dangerous Angels - the Weetzie Bat books
  • Boethius
    • Consolation of Philosophy
  • Borges, Jorge Luis
    • Ficciones (Fictions)
    • The Cirular Ruins
  • Bradbury, Ray - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • Dandelion Wine
  • Bryant, Dorothy
    • The Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail
    • The Master and Margarita
    • The Heart of a Dog
  • Burroughs, William S.
    • Junkie
    • Naked Lunch
    • The Ticket That Exploded
    • Junky's Christmas
  • Camus, Albert
    • The Outsider
    • The Myth of Sisyphus
    • The Stranger
    • The Plague
  • Capote, Truman
    • In Cold Blood
  • Card, Orson Scott - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Ender's Game
      Speaker for the Dead
      Xenocide
    • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
    • Songmaster
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow
    • They Became what They Beheld
  • Carroll, Lewis - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Alice In Wonderland
    • Through the Looking-glass
  • Carroll, Peter
    • Liber Null
    • Psychonaut
    • Liber Kaos
  • Casares, Adolfo Bioy
  • Castaneda, Carlos
    • The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge
      A Separate Reality
      Journey to Ixtlan
  • Cervantes, Miguel de
    • Don Quixote
  • Chase, Truddi
    • When Rabbit Howls
  • Chayefsky, Paddy
    • Altered States
  • Chuang Chou
    • The Chuang-Tzu
  • Clark, Arthur C. - Must Read [Reemus]
    • 2001: A Space Oddysey
    • Childhood's End
  • Cortázar, Julio
    • End of the Game and Other Stories
    • Rayuela (Hopscotch)
  • Coupland, Douglas
    • Microserfs
  • Danielewski, Mark
    • House of Leaves
  • Dawkins, Richard - Must Read [Reemus]
    • The Selfish Gene
  • DeLillo, Don
  • Dick, Philip K. - Must Read [Reemus]
    • A Scanner Darkly
    • The Divine Invasion
    • VALIS
  • Dickens, Charles
    • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Notes from the Underground
    • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Eco, Umberto - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Foucalt's Pendulum
    • The Name of the Rose
  • Efsandiary, F.M.
    • Upwingers
  • Egan, Greg
    • Diaspora
    • Distress
    • Permutation City
  • Eliot, T.S.
    • The Wasteland
  • Ellis, Bret Easton
    • American Psycho
  • Ellis, Edward Robb
    • A Nation in Torment
  • Ende, Michael
    • The Neverending Story
  • Euclid
    • The Elements
  • Farmer, Philip Jose
    • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  • Faulkner, William
    • As I Lay Dying
  • Feinberg, Leslie
    • Stone Butch Blues
  • Foucault, Michel
    • Discipline and Punish
  • Fowles, John
    • The Magus
  • Freud, Sigmund
    • Civilization and Its Discontents
  • Gaarder, Jostein - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Sophie's World
  • Gardner, Laurence
    • The Bloodline of the Holy Grail
  • Gaiman, Neil
    • Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
    • Neverwhere
    • American Gods
  • Genet, Jean
    • Miracle of The Rose
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
    • Herland
  • Gibson, William
    • Burning Chrome
    • Neuromancer
      Count Zero
      Mona Lisa Overdrive
    • Virtual Light
      Idoru
      All Tomorrow's Parties
  • Gleick, James
    • Chaos : Making a New Science
  • Gray, Alasdair
    • Lanark
  • Gogol, Nikolai
    • The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
  • Grimwood, Ken
    • Replay
  • Gurdjieff, G. I.
    • Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
  • Halperin, James L.
    • The Truth Machine
  • Hand, Elizabeth
    • Waking the Moon
    • Glimmering
    • Winterlong
      Aestival Tide Icarus Descending
  • Heinlein, Robert A. - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Stranger in a Strange Land
    • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
    • Time Enough For Love
  • Heller, Joseph - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Catch 22
  • Herbert, Frank - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Dune
  • Hermans, W.F.
    • Het behouden huis
    • Nooit meer slapen
  • Herr, Michael
    • Dispatches
  • Hesse, Herman
    • Steppenwolf
    • Siddhartha
  • Hofstadter, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    • Metamagical Themas
  • Hugo, Victor
    • Les Miserables
  • Huxley, Aldous - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Brave new World
    • The Doors of Perception
  • Ibsen, Henrik
    • A Doll's House
  • Irving, John
    • A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • Jotce, Graham
    • The Tooth Fairy
  • Joyce, James
    • Ulysses
    • Finnegan's Wake
  • Kafka, Franz
    • The Penal Colony
    • The Trial
    • America
    • The Castle
    • Metamorphosis
  • Kaku, Michio - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Hyperspace
  • Kerouac, Jack
    • On the Road
    • Visions of Cody
    • the Dharma Bums
  • Kesey, Ken
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Keyes, J. Gregory - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Newton's Cannon
      A Calculus of Angels
      Empire of Unreason
    • The Waterborn
      The Blackgod
  • Kidder, Tracy
    • The Soul of a New Machine
  • King, Stephen
    • The Dark Tower series
    • The Tommyknockers
    • The Stand
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
    • The Woman Warrior
  • Knowles, John
    • A Seperate Peace
  • Land, Jon
    • The Jared Kimberlain series
  • Kosinski, Jerry
    • The Painted Bird
  • Lawrence, D. H.
    • Lady Chatterly's Lover
  • Leary, Timothy
    • Politics of Ecstasy and Info-Psychology (aka Exo-Psychology)
  • Lee, Tanith
    • The Silver Metal Lover
  • Lem, Stanislaw
    • The Cyberiad
    • Solaris
    • The Futurological Congress
    • Eden
  • Lewis, C.S.
    • Out of the Silent Planet
      Perelandra
      That Hideous Strength
  • Leyner, Mark
    • Et Tu, Babe
    • The Tetherballs of Bouganville
  • Lilly, John C.
    • Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
  • Llewellyn, Grace
    • The Teenage Liberation Handbook
  • Longyear, Barry B.
    • Sea of Glass
  • Mailer, Norman
    • Why Are We In Vietnam?
  • Mandela, Nelson
    • Long Walk to Freedom
  • Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
    • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Mayle, Peter
    • Where Did I Come From?
  • McKenna, Terence
    • The Archaic Revival
    • The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna)
    • True Hallucinations
  • Miller, Arthur
    • A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Miller, Henry
    • Plexus
  • Milton, John
    • Paradise Lost
  • More, Thomas
    • Utopia
  • Morrison, Tony
    • The Bluest Eye
  • Murakami, Haruki
    • A Wild Sheep Chase
    • The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
  • Musashi, Miyamoto
    • The Book of Five Rings
  • Musil, Robert
    • The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften)
  • Neville, Katherine
    • The Eight
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
    • The Gay Science
  • Noon, Jeff
    • Vurt
    • Nymphomation
  • Nørretranders, Tor
    • The User Illusion
  • Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Blonde
  • O'Brien, Flann
    • The Third Policeman
  • O'Brien, Timothy
    • The Things They Carried
  • Orwell, George - Must Read [Reemus]
    • 1984
    • Animal Farm
  • Palahniuk, Chuck
    • Fight Club
    • Survivor
    • Choke
    • Invisible Monsters
  • Perec, Georges
    • A Void
  • Plath, Sylvia
    • The Bell Jar
  • Pirsig, Robert
    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Pynchon, Thomas
    • The Crying of Lot 49
    • Gravity's Rainbow
  • Quinn, Daniel - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Ishmael and The Story of B
  • Rand, Ayn
    • The Fountainhead
  • Rhinehart, Luke
    • The Dice Man
    • Adventures of Wim
    • Search for the Dice Man
  • Rooney, Andy
    • Not That You Asked
  • Rosen, Robert
    • Life Itself
  • Ross, John
    • Unintended Consequences
  • Roy, Arundhati
    • The Cost of Living
    • The God of Small Things
  • Rucker, Rudy
    • Software, Wetware, and Freeware
    • Infinity and Mind
  • Rushkoff, David
    • The Ecstacy Club
  • Sacks, Oliver
    • Seeing Voices
  • Sagan, Carl
    • Pale Blue Dot
    • The Demon-haunted World
  • Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - Must Read [Reemus]
    • The Little Prince
  • Saramago, Jose
    • Blindness
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul
    • Nausea
  • Shakespeare, William
    • Hamlet
  • Shelley, Mary
    • Frankenstein
  • Shem, Samuel
    • The House of God
    • Mount Misery
  • Shepard, Lucius
    • Life During Wartime
  • Simmons, Dan
    • Hyperion
      The Fall of Hyperion
  • St. Augustine
    • Confessions
  • Stapledon, Olaf
    • Starmaker
  • Stein, Gertrude
    • How to Write
  • Stephenson, Neal - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Snow Crash
    • Cryptonomicon
    • Zodiac
    • Diamond Age
  • Süskind, Patrick
    • Das Parfum
  • Tan, Amy
    • The Joy Luck Club
  • Thich Nhat Hanh - Must Read [Reemus] - Anything by TNH is a Must Read
    • Old Path, White Clouds
  • Thompson, Hunter S.
    • Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
  • Thurber, James
    • The 13 Clocks
  • Tolstoy, Leo - Must Read [Reemus]
    • The death of Ivan Ilyich
    • the Kreuzer sonata
  • Twain, Mark - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Letters from the Earth
    • The Mysterious Stranger
  • Ullman, Ellen
    • Close to the Machine
  • Various
    • The Bible - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Vian, Boris
    • I Shall Spit On Your Grave
  • Vinge, Vernor
    • A Fire upon the Deep
  • Vonnegut, Kurt - Must Read [Reemus]
    • Breakfast of Champions
    • Cat's Cradle
    • Player Piano
    • Sirens of Titan
    • Slaughter-house Five
  • Wallace, David Foster
    • Infinite Jest
  • Irvine Welsh
    • Filth
  • Walsh, Lawrence E.
    • Firewall
  • Watts, Alan
    • The Book
    • The Joyous Cosmology
    • The Wisdom of Insecurity
    • The Way Of Zen
  • Wilbur, Ken
    • Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
  • Wilde, Oscar
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Wilder, Thornton
    • The Bridge of San Lois Ray
  • Wilson, Robert Anton - Must Read [Reemus]
    • The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
    • Prometheus Rising
    • Cosmic Trigger
    • Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (note: originally published as three volumes: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. Thanks to Wobbly Tech)
  • Wolfe, Gene
    • Peace
  • Woolf, Virginia
    • To the Lighthouse
  • Wright, Robert
  • Yogananda, Paramahansa
    • Autobiography Of A Yogi
  • Yourcenar, Marguerite
    • Anna... Soror
    • Alexis
    • Memoirs of Hadrian
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin, Yevgeny
    • We
  • Zinn, Howard
    • A People's History of the United States
  • Zukav, Gary
    • Seat Of The Soul


Courtesy(I have removed some of the books, please follow the link for the complete list):
http://everything2.com/title/Books+that+will+induce+a+mindfuck

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