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But if you are an avid reader, just go to the library and get it. Was the book worth the money.
So was the 2nd. But then Goodkind evokes Zeno's paradox and the books slowly start becoming half as good, until we come to this.
I will agree with a majority of my fellow reviewers here: the first book in this series was phenomenal. Goodkind takes Rand's Objectivism and totally embodies it into someone who is perfect in almost all that he does, even over-shadowing the First Wizard in magical theory (while Richard has had no previous experience).
Essentially, Chainfire boils down to Atlas Shrugged with magic. That's pretty much the sum of the final book.
Sure, if you are a bibliophile like myself, having the collection works out. Cheaper, and it culls Goodkind from getting more money to drag on a series.
A wonderful ending to a wonderful series. Having watched the TV show, I find it interesting that the concept of stabbing the box of Orden to use it was introduced in this book. There were some long winded passages, true, but I found it useful that they finally explained how Ja La is played.
The book arrived in almost perfect wrapping and condition. I'm totally satisfied with the purchase, and it only took about 1 1/2 week for the book to arrive safely to my doorstep, here in Malaysia.
The earlier books in the series were still very good. Richard seems to have completely lost his ability to see shades of gray (not that he was very good at that to begin with) and everyone is still either US or THEM. In my opinion the first one was the best, and very much a stand alone book. I viewed the final book in this series with a certain amount of trepidation. The ending is pretty much a copout by Goodkind and could be summed up as 'and then Richard became God and all the bad things and problems magically went away'.3)If you've stuck with the series so far you're probably still going to read this book. Whilst not as bad as those in the rant-also-known-as-the-Naked-Empire they still form waaay too large a proportion of the book.
I would rate it average, verging on bad.Probably the most important things to know about this book are:1) The rants continue.
Then there were some ups and downs in book quality, some good, some bad, some average.
So so evil.
The books in this series have been very variable.
Evil them.
So it was hard to know which category this one would fit into.
Now having read it, I would say Confessor is not the worst book in the series, but neither is it among the best.
Why can't they just see how awesome Richard is and bow down and worship him.2)Richard continues to become more and more godlike.
There is some purpose in doing so - it's all finally over and we never have suffer through another installment again.
And that "Final Battle between Good and Evil". You'll be forewarned about the endless amount of useless pages and the outright horrible monologues by just about everyone in the book, but the only thing you really need to know is that this book just plain sucks.
Maybe I was waiting for something of a glimer from the first six books. How big of an idiot am I that it took me until the eleventh book to realize Goodkind doesn't know what he's doing anymore.
If you read the other negative reviews you'll hear about Goodkind's sermons and the cardboard characters. Maybe I simply read through the series to fast and never stopped to think.
Maybe I just didn't want to believe that the author of Wizard's First Rule (such an excellent book) had gone completely off the deep end. I am just utterly distraught over how much I hate this book.
What a joke of an ending.
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