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Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, Book 8)
By: Terry Goodkind Publisher: Tor Fantasy Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Tor Fantasy Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 752 Publication Date: 2004-06 Release Date: June 01, 2004
Product Description: Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.
Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.
Least Favorate Book of the series Goodkind has build up a lot of goodwill with me resulting from his good writing in past books in this series. However, there are limits. This book is far too preachy, the plot is unlikely even in a fantasy world, and his main charactre Richard, is not very likeable in this book. It was bad enough that I am not even going to bother to spell check this review.
Excellent!! The Complete Series!! This book along with the rest of the series contains a huge lesson in Philosophy. If you like a book that teaches along with the story then this book is for you. Not many people may understand this lesson and get too wrapped up in the actual story. This series will help a person learn to think better. Not to just accept but to question. I consider this book better then Wheel of Time or Lord of Rings or Shanara or Thomas Covenant etc. It is along those lines of what this book is like. Have a good day!!
sorry terry but this one is just bad yeah, im being generous by giving this 2 stars. i like this series, but this book is just really bad. the only reason i didnt give it a 1 is because the badguy nicholas the slide is pretty awesome. other than that, this book is awful. this is where terry really just went overboard with shoving his philosophy down the reader's throat. before in the other novels, i could bare it, because it was mostly disguised, or he was more focused on the story, but in naked empire, he really lost it. this book was bad. but! atleast the one after it is good.
How novel...intelligent fantasy In Naked Empire, Terry Goodkind weaves a plot that, through the action of the story, illustrates increasingly deeper themes with great relevance to our culture today. Politically, and most superficially, it is a story about the hopelessness of the doctrine of pacifism for establishing genuine peace, but that it rather leads to tyranny. Ethically, it is about whether people are justified in fighting for their values by retaliating against physical threats to them, or whether it is ever proper to turn the other cheek. Epistemologically, it is about whether genuine knowledge comes by revelation from another world, or by reasoning about our perception of this world. And metaphysically, it is about the doctrine of mind-body dualism versus that of mind-body unity, and the results of accepting each. (There is even a bit about esthetics, though not nearly as a much as in Faith of the Fallen, in which the nature of art played a much more central role.)
As usual, the plot advances the stories of the characters and the world in which they live, and Goodkind's characterization is excellent (though Owen is a bit obnoxious at first, but not as bad as Nadine in Temple of the Winds). It is true that Goodkind has begun using somewhat formulaic phrases to introduce familiar characters (but hey, if it was good enough for Homer...). So some of the criticisms about his writing at this point in the series are slightly valid. It is not one of the best books in the series, which is why I didn't rate it five stars. However, the kind of vitriol being spewed by the book's critics--many of whom seem to have a personal grudge against Goodkind--can only be explained by their unthinking bias against his theme, or, in the case of escapists, the fact that his books have themes at all.
Goodkind's work is both entertaining and thought-provoking--a rare thing. Ironically, it is perhaps those who find themselves so angered by his books that need his message the most.
Again??!! I do like this series but, he seems to be re-using the same old plot line over and over... They start together then, they are split up because of some foe, then one of them looses the ability to use their power then,.....AND What happened to the wizards rules?? Do they just stop at four?? Also, We all know that Kaylan loves Richard and Richard loves Kaylan. Can we move on?? I like charictor devlopment but, they are not going anywhere... Just in love... We are not learning any more about them just how very very...VERY much in love they are. It is cool to have a sub-story to off set the blood and gutts but, this is not supposed to be a love novel...I don't think... A little less talk and alot more action please. Really those are the only problems i see. I still enjoy the books very much. Thanks Terry!!
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