This Audio CD Book item from Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged was reviewed on 29-Jul-2008.
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1) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. Let me just say that anyone who gave this (or the last few books in the series) anything higher than 2 stars is crazy. The series started out very good, but throughout the course of his writing Mr. Goodkind apparently forgot he was writing a fantasy series. Many of the coolest characters and extras, like Gratch the Gar and Scarlet the dragon are completely forgotten until brief cameos in Confessor. Goodkind repeats himself so much in these final books that I actually felt my intelligence insulted. He would literally have paragraphs that were the same sentence paraphrased 4 different ways. The imperial order is by far the most uninspired, unbelievable, simplistic enemy I have ever heard of. Not to mention the seemingly racist undertones of the evil dark-skinned brutes from the "Old World" attacking the nice white folks of the "New World". Anything worth reading in the series has long since been left in the dust. However, if you are like me you have to finish a series once started, just make sure to get it from the library.¤ 2) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. 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
¤ 3) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. 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¤ 4) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. 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.¤ 5) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. 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...¤ 6) Audio CD Book Confessor (Sword of Truth) (Sword of Truth) by Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged. 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.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 26-Aug-2008, , 180-340-440-560-94B-A4B-22B-8 
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