I think I might have a new favorite book... Terry Goodkind is amazing!

[Vesayen]

I just finished reading faith of the fallen........ wow.

The first 2/3rd's of the book were good, I liked it alot like all his word, the last third..... wow.





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I dont know WHAT it was that made it so great, but EVERY aspect of the latter parts of the book was awsome. From Nicci's bizzare inner conflict, to the guy screaming "WE BELONG TO OURSELVES, WE ARE NO ONES SLAVES!!!!", proboably one of the most heartfelt dialouges I've ever read. In the following free for all between a million citizens and a couple thousand gaurds, in my mind's eye I could "hear" and see the battle going on as Richard talks to some of the other characters.......














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All I can say is WOW and if you didnt like the earlier sword of truth books, as some people didnt, you will LOVE Faith of the Fallen....... Goodkind had kinda fallen into "well we killed this evil, but now we fight the REAL ultimate evil, oh that wasent it, it turns out THIS was it etc" syndrome, but he more then redeamed himself in this one! I'm off to Barnes and Nobles to buy the next one LOL!

[Immortal Wombat]

Yeah Faith of the Fallen, is one of the better ones. The next one apparently is written from an outside perspective, not from that of Richard and Kahlan.

Although I have to say, I did go through a stage of buying a SoT book every week, and reading it non-stop. Then realising a) I'd spent about £42 on them, and b) they were all really fat, and there wasn't actually room on my bookcase for them all.
I'm leaving it a while before I get Pillars of Creation

[Vesayen]

I found one mistake in the book though heh!

Kahlahan said she saw stone cutters at the palace of prophets who made lardo, and were from that guys homeland....... impossible: The valley of spells or whatever wasent cleaned yet, so there is no way menial stone cutters could of made such a journey LOL!

[Immortal Wombat]

Except by boat...

[Arrian]

I honestly didn't figure out Mr. Goodkind's political agenda until the final book of the series (where he kinda goes right out into the open with it). I didn't expect to find it in a fantasy series, so it kinda caught me by surprise.

Then I read the "about the author" blurb at the back and it all made sense.

-Arrian

[MikeH]

What the whole "communism is evil, capitalism rules" thing? Yeah, that was out of the blue and would have been better if he hadn't done it quite so blatantly, it was vaguely insulting. Still, good reads and I especially like the whole S&M Sub/Dom angle.

[Jon Miller]

I read the first two and thought they were ok (when they were new in fact)

than I read some better books

now I wonder how I ever finished them

the later ones were even worse

Jon Miller

[SpencerH]

Thanks for reminding me, I forgot that I have the most recent one, but havent read it yet.

[MikeH]

I got quite into them. Mindless fun and they were long which is good, 'cause it puts off me having to find another book to read for a day or so.

[Jon Miller]

yah, that was why I was into them in the beggining

I read the first two 9 times...

Jon Miller

[MikeH]

Er... well I enjoyed them but I wouldn't read them more than once.

[Arrian]

What the whole "communism is evil, capitalism rules" thing? Yeah, that was out of the blue and would have been better if he hadn't done it quite so blatantly, it was vaguely insulting.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I wasn't insulted... but a bit disappointed. He turns Richard into a Randian Superman, almost.

If I want to read an endictment of communism, I can read Animal Farm.

-Arrian

[Vesayen]

I didnt mind........ I figured out in book 3 about the whole communism vs capitalism thing immediatly, he does make some good points though, and im not so sure about the superiority of socialism as I one was.

[MikeH]

Just watch a couple of episodes of Star Trek to remind yourself.

[Havak]

I have enjoyed most of the Sword of Truth series but Pillars of creation was actually a huge dip in form.

No spoilers here as some of you have not read it but he simply didn't manage to sell to me that anyone could be quite as stupid and gullible as the heroine - and his anti communism message is getting very stale for me.