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I got a pleasant surprise a little while ago. The new Terry Goodkind novel, Chainfire, is being released on January 4, 2005. That is this coming Tuesday! I had forgotten that it was coming out so soon. I thought it wasn’t coming out until much later in the year. Goodkind does get his books out fairly quickly. The last one was released in July 2003. You can bet that I’ll be in the bookstore on that day.

I also found out a little about the plot for the first time. Here’s the description from Amazon.com.
With Wizard’s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.
After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself….if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.

Harry Potter fans rejoice! The new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will be released on July 16, 2005. Good thing it’s not as long of a wait as last time. Check this out.

I recently saw a headline saying that the next movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is about 75% done. I didn’t read the article though. It’s currently scheduled for release on November 18, 2005.

It’s been over 4 years since George R.R. Martin released the latest book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. It looks like we may have to wait a little longer, partially because of President Bush. This message was posted on his website Wednesday.

I write this the day after the presidential election.

—George R.R. Martin, November 3, 2004

I was doing some reading on one of my favorite series of books, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, and found some cool information. Debt of Bones, a prequel to the series, was released in standalone paperback on Nov 2. On the copyright page, the author is listed as Robert Jordan, who is the author of The Wheel of Time series. Both authors use the same publishing company, Tor Fantasy. Since The Sword of Truth is similar to The Wheel of Time in many aspects, some people say that Goodkind copied The Wheel of Time and just changed the name and places. Maybe somebody at the publishing company was just trying to give credit where it’s due. I doubt it though. Anyway, on the same day as it was released, Tor recalled all copies of the book and is having them destroyed. If anybody got a copy, it’s probably a collectors item.

I want to recommentd Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. I’m currently on the second book. Someone had recommended this series to me before, but I had told myself that I wouldn’t get started on another incomplete series. Since the final book was recently released, I figured it was a good time to get started.

I guess I was about halfway through the first book before I started to really get into it, but it got really interesting after that. Now I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next.