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Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 3 (Sword Of Truth, Book 11)
By: Terry Goodkind Publisher: Tor Books Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Tor Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 608 Publication Date: November 13, 2007 Release Date: November 13, 2007
Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.
Irony...berates those of whom he has become Overall I gave this 2 start because it was one of the least worth while Terry Goodkind books of the series (Including Temple of the Winds).
The phrase Spencer uses for Terry comes to mind, 'preachy'. He has used his success of a great story and made it his personal soap box. The final 'trilogy' of the entire SOT series could have been contained in 2 books that neither of which could have been as long as each of the last 3 were. He must have had a contract so he needed to fill it with his preaching. There were some old flashes of 'good ol Goodkind' but for the most part he just blah-ed forever about life and how 'any' organization that has a defined set of beliefs is just for 'people who do not want to think'. Huh, I wonder if he pays his taxes 'without thinking', I wonder if he obeys traffic laws, if he does he is as 'unthinking' as any of the people he is criticizing that have Faith as a value and belong to a religion 'with pre-packaged beliefs that make it so I do not have to think, just follow".
Too bad, he took something great and turned it into something less worth while than I could have hoped, and believe me my hopes decreased with each of the last 3 volumes of the series. Oh, and not to spoil the story Richard finds a 'magic bean' that makes everything better. Retarded ending to an overwhelming enemy that has been looming for 6-7 books now.
Spoiler: Richard says, "I found a magic bean" the Daharans cheer and the Imperial order is instantaneously transported to a different planet. Yeah!!!!! (Oh sorry that last cheer was the people who were reading the books cheering that it was FINALLY over, it is not in the book.) Funny how after dragging it on for so long the whole of the order is dispatched in less than 1/3 of a page of the last book. Disappointing!
Irony...berates those of whom he has become
You'll never guess the ending This was such an awesome series; so many good stories and insights into society. The ending was completely unexpected yet fit so well. It leaves you wanting to say "eh heh." To fully grasp the story though you need to read all the books. Check out the new show based on the series http://www.sword-of-truth.com/tv/legend-of-the-seeker
Thank God This Series is Over!! I loved the fist three books in this series and then Goodkind turned into a televangelist with his preaching. I stopped buying the books and read them (skimmed them actually) from my library. If you were following the series - then by all means finish it (from the library of course - do not spend you hard earned dollars!!). This book was as disappointing as were the last 9 - how many was it again I forgot???? I have lost count as they are all the same - blah blah blah!! If this guy writes any more books I will not be wasting my time - the only positive is that he did finish the series (i.e. Robert Jordan!!) - weak as it was. No need to rehash the plot (was there one) as other reviewers have done so - in a nutshell - if you didn't start this series THEN DON'T - IF YOU DID - YOU MAY AS WELL FINISH IT.
Mourning Well, so it's over...
At this point, I just wish that Mr. Goodkind had never got his hands on any book by Ayn Rand. It is obvious he has been very affected by her philosophy. Through the last couple of volumes, I felt that he was force-feeding the reader objectivism, and quite determinedly. He was like a devout priest trying to convert a group of heathens or something. At the end, those characters who did not come to his way of thinking are condemned to thousands of years of hell. New generations of those evil people -who were basically innocent of the wrong-doings of their fathers- are banished to a meaningless existence for "a thousand years" and the our hero Richard has the temerity to call that justice.
The thing is, it felt like according to Goodkind, the problem is the concept of faith itself, not the particularly vile and evil type of drivel he dreamt up and told over and over again in excruciating detail through multiple characters -most of whom either got raped by men of the Order or committed unmentionable atrocities in their name and then repented, or both. That type of faith is truly evil, yes, but I don't know of any religious or political system that preaches those kinds of things; except, maybe National Socialism in Nazi Germany. In the end, as a person who believes in the afterlife and in the concept of working towards happiness in it, this part left me cold. But that is a matter of philosophies, so only peripheral to the enjoyment one can get out of the storytelling itself.
Unfortunately there are problems there to. The biggest of them being the frequent sermons carried out by all of the main cast of characters in the good side which take pages and pages and which just repeat the same things and ideas that have been told in the last five volumes by the same characters, in the same words and covering about the same number of pages. The last two books I got so fed up with them I started to jump ahead, something I generally never do because I am obsessive that way.
At the beginning though... The last five-six books do not diminish in my opinion the superb storytelling Goodkind delivered more or less consistently in the first four-five books. I just wish he had never taken his characters to the Old World (which raises so many red flags in my mind. Does he mean Europe and Asia and Africa by that? Is the New World America? With it's magic, and dragons and heart-breakingly beautiful woman who all fall in love with the same man? Yes, I am in Europe and I am bitter). I just wish I had not been hit over the head with the hammer of objectivism countless times. I just wanted to finish the story, and now I have.
Sorry for the rambling. It's just that I am mourning for what this series could have been...
insult to those who truly do fight for the right to life This was the most awful ending I ever read in my life! And worse because many of his books in this series were so awesome. I really loved most of his books.But...I just read finished the last book last night.I got it from the library. I'm thanking God I didn't buy it.When I got it from the library, I noticed the spine was all broken and torn. I was intending to fix it...but now I realize it must have been because the last reader threw it against the wall. I was tempted to as well, but didn't. It was as monotonous and amateurish. Where the heck was his editor?? I should have listened and not read the book and just made up my own ending.
The one thing I think I hated the most was the way he ended it the whole boring slog.... It was COMPLETELY obnoxious.
His theme in most of the books was to protesting religious zealotry. Those in the Order where following some misguided notion that they were killing in the name of the creator and lived under very communistic conditions.
As I read Confessor the preaching and reminding got so irritating I ended up simply skipping pages and pages of 'reminders'.
Through out the series there seemed to be an acknowledged basic natural(and good) desire to connect with the Creator and the spiritual connection in all of us. And that there was indeed an afterlife and he seemed to be pointing out that those killing in the name of the Creator are wrong.
Also, Goodkind spends many chapters explaining the 'theology' of his fantasy world....how magic works and is connected with the underworld etc etc..But then he completely trashes it AND connects his fantasy world to our real world!!! The whole effect was disconcerting and took away from the 'fairy tale ending'...because you know in this ending the Creator is dead, or consigned to some corner and told not to bother anyone ever again.
In the end Richard destroys the entire afterlife for those banished to the non magic world, where he conveniently alludes to those formally of the Order are now the 'building churches'!!! What?) Not mosques, not temples, not circles...but CHURCHES! (and not just any Churches, but CATHOLIC churches because they use medals and 'talismans'. What? Excuse me? Is Terry Goodkind really this ignorant, or is he just another patsy for the secular order that is encroaching with the culture of death?
Does anyone want a link to pictures of happy young muslims brandishing the hands of Christians they collected for allah???? Those of the Order where more like militant islam and the Saracens of history and militant communism and nazi's rolled up in one!! Knowing that as of this minute while I write this thousands of Christians are being executed for 'blasphemy' and oppressed with well documented sharia dhimmi laws in muslim countries or as in communist China's case, having children ripped from their wombs because they value life and would want to welcome a new child among them,...but it's against the godless of laws of china. Or what about the mass graves of Orthodox and catholic priests and nuns from Communist Russia and it's former satellites??
What an insult to those really truly have and are suffering on behalf of the values of life and liberty.
Ugh. I was completely irritated that I even read the series to begin with. I will not bother to watch the TV series.
My advice is save yourself aggravation and money and skip this series. It's a garden path to nowhere.
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