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Confessor (Sword of Truth #11)
by
Terry Goodkind (Goodreads Author)
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 th
Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of th
Hardcover, 603 pages
Published
November 13th 2007
by Tor Books
(first published January 1st 2003)
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At last! We've tied it up! (unless you want to go get the prequel Debt of Bones, I didn't)(Well and unless more books are released later and stumble out into the world like the results of Victor Frankenstein opening up an assembly line). We made it, Kahlan is saved (again) and Mr. Goodkind gets to pontificate seemingly endlessly about his views, beliefs, and the weaknesses and foolishness of anyone who disagrees with him. More of the book is dedicated to his dogma than the story.
But, I survived,...more
But, I survived,...more
Dec 30, 2007
Deianaera
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who wants to know how it ends
Dear Mr. Goodkind:
Thank you for putting this series out of its misery. Your desire to expound on black and white morality was okay for a while, got old in Pillars of Creation, and probably earned you death threats after Naked Empire. So, by comparison, the fact that entire pages of dialogue in every scene were dedicated to the same insulting diatribe that we've been subjected to for way too many books shows restraint on your part. One sign that you spent far too much time envisioning yourself as...more
Thank you for putting this series out of its misery. Your desire to expound on black and white morality was okay for a while, got old in Pillars of Creation, and probably earned you death threats after Naked Empire. So, by comparison, the fact that entire pages of dialogue in every scene were dedicated to the same insulting diatribe that we've been subjected to for way too many books shows restraint on your part. One sign that you spent far too much time envisioning yourself as...more
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Jan 08, 2008
Sam C
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who's read the rest of the books!
Recommended to Sam by:
No one, I 've been waiting for it to come out forever!
Okies well I'll say that I liked the book it was enjoyable. But I didn't think it was great really. It started off VERY SLOWLY, with the first two hundred pages or whatever being all these magic theories and whatnot being explained o us in very simple terms, meaning one theory or whatever took them like 20 pages to explain and i will say that I didn't appreciate being viewed as a retard who didn't' get it from the first page or so! But that's just me!
And as I said the beginning was slow, it didn...more
And as I said the beginning was slow, it didn...more
So if there was ever any doubt in my mind that Goodkind was using this series as a thin veneer for preaching his personal philosophies on morality and faith vs reason it was instantly expelled on reading this book. I stuck with this series the whole way through and the last few books in particular made me feel betrayed. This series could have been so much more in the hands of an author that could get over his own ideals long enough to write an actual plot there towards the end. Even the ending o...more
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Apr 07, 2009
Jessica
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Terry Goodkind fans, anyone who wants to spend a year reading the rest of his books
Wow! I don't believe it's all over! I finished this book in two days and lost a little sleep finishing it up last night, but it was well worth it. (I so would have finished it up earlier if I hadn't been so busy visiting during Thanksgiving).
For the most part, everything tied together with the first book, although some parts could have been edited out. My fiance didn't like most of the middle with Richard and the game. But I told him he's silly because I liked it. It was like in Final Fantasy X...more
For the most part, everything tied together with the first book, although some parts could have been edited out. My fiance didn't like most of the middle with Richard and the game. But I told him he's silly because I liked it. It was like in Final Fantasy X...more
I have to say that I wasn't as impressed with this book. Maybe my expectations were too high. I feel that it became too preachy and didn't really focus as much on the characters as the others did. After all, we've read 10 books BECAUSE of these characters. I understand the message that he is trying to send but I think that it all wrapped up a bit too neatly for my warped tastes. I will miss these characters though.
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I'm glad this series is finally done. The first five books were truly great works of fantasy, but midway through the series, a transformation happened. Goodkind abandoned any subtlety he once had, abandoned any willingness to let the reader think about the lessons to be gained from his stories, and instead bashed the reader over the head with a stream of Ayn Rand objectivist diatribe. Continuously. I resolved to stick this series out, based on how good the first half was and based on a desire to...more
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This was truly an amazing book. Terry Goodkind's imagination is amazing, and his ability to write and create is astounding. I really liked how old characters came back - Gratch, Gregory, Ulic, and Egan. I've stuck with Rihard and Kahlan since the beginning of their journey - and now it's the end. Goodkind's books have so much depth; if you really sit down and look at everything, break everything down, you realize that these things happening in Richard's world are similiar to the things happening...more
Last night I finished reading Confessor, the last book in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. As with the previous books in the series, I found myself completely riveted for the last two hundred and fifty pages or so... as for the previous pages, sometimes I found myself skimming through long descriptions of the nature of magic or the rules of Ja 'La.
If you've read and enjoyed the previous nine books in the series, you'll like this one, too. Some old friends from the past reappear, and I thi...more
If you've read and enjoyed the previous nine books in the series, you'll like this one, too. Some old friends from the past reappear, and I thi...more
The culmination of years of mediocrity and bland repetition. TOR Fantasy has sunk to a low level indeed, in agreeing to bank on the latter half of this dismal series. I don't know what happened to Terry Goodkind over the years, but whatever afflictions lay at the heart of his deteriorating talent as a storyteller and wordsmith, I will never again pick up another book he writes. For the record... Wizard's First Rule was Brilliant - I'll never dispute that. But I am glad that this snake-oil roadsh...more
If ever any story came full circle, this story has. Richard always finds a way, like a true messiah, faith in him is always fulfilled. If there is a solution, he will find it, and though Goodkind leaves certain issues open, I believe that Richard solved them, too. An epilogue saying so would be nice. In fact, I've read a lot of books lately that would be more cheerful if they had an epilogue describing just how happily ever after all have lived beyond the story's end. Oh, well, it shall be as I...more
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Ok, so this trilogy of books just ticks me off. Three books, and barely a plot. Richard and Nicci spend pages giving monologues on the evils of the "empire"...pages. People don't talk like that. And honestly, it is obvious that Mr Goodkind had a point to make about society and this was where he was going to do it. Most of the time, he's railing against religious fanaticism like what drove those men to perpetrate 9/11, but sometimes it feels like he's railing against Democrats and their social we...more
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The entire Sword of Truth series was perhaps the best continuing story I have ever read. Goodkind manages, like few others, to create an entire realm replete with multi-dimensional, imperfect characters decribed using language that is both precise and concise and yet dripping with immediacy of meaning.
That said, I know that I seek a peculiar mix in a book so, for others, your mileage may vary. I want adventure and fantasy but, ideally, I want these to serve as vehicles to deliver an underlying...more
That said, I know that I seek a peculiar mix in a book so, for others, your mileage may vary. I want adventure and fantasy but, ideally, I want these to serve as vehicles to deliver an underlying...more
This series degraded quickly. What started out as a raw and realistic twist on standard high-fantasy fare, became instead a series of violent rape fantasies, unnecessary violence, and philosopipolitical pablum.
Why was I reading it, you might ask? Well, I put some time into the first five or so books, so when I saw the last one was on the way, I figured I'd catch up for a little summer reading.
I've had better ideas.
This book gets an extra star because it ended the series. Way to go!
Why was I reading it, you might ask? Well, I put some time into the first five or so books, so when I saw the last one was on the way, I figured I'd catch up for a little summer reading.
I've had better ideas.
This book gets an extra star because it ended the series. Way to go!
So you wanted a book on the Catholic church? Ha ha jokes on you. This is the final installment of the sword of truth series. If you've enjoyed how the previous ten books have evolved and you're digging in for the final event in the lives of Richard and Kahlan then brace yourself. The first 400 pages deliver exactly what you've become used to in the past 4 books. To my taste, the finale gets pushed through and tied off a little too quickly. I'm sure the author would have been given the green ligh...more
Firstly, this is not a great series. This isn't even a good series. I would call it a man's attempt at expressing his political opinions while writing fantasy. The irony of that statement is that Mr. Goodkind never thought of himself as writing a fantasy series. He more thought of himself as a political satirist. This is evident in his books as he clearly expresses his opinions of welfare and government, which are always negative, and he uses his main character as the righter of the wrongs, the...more
After 11 books, my thoughts
I am pretty sure that most of the haters are people who don't like Ayn Rand, and more probably people who are strong believers of their religion. Mostly.. I found that interesting that some of these people telling that " writer wasted 10 pages with philosophy which we could have understand in 1 page", in the end it was not even enough, contradiction ?
These thoughts about man and life, i did find this subject interesting as far as i know myself, because when truth wa...more
I am pretty sure that most of the haters are people who don't like Ayn Rand, and more probably people who are strong believers of their religion. Mostly.. I found that interesting that some of these people telling that " writer wasted 10 pages with philosophy which we could have understand in 1 page", in the end it was not even enough, contradiction ?
These thoughts about man and life, i did find this subject interesting as far as i know myself, because when truth wa...more
In the span of three gigantic books Goodkind tells the concluding story of the Sword of Truth series. I don't feel arrogant in claiming I could have done the same inside of sixty thousand pages. The last three novels of the SoT (of which I speak here, Chainfire, Phantom, & Confessor) were repetative, wordy, and lacking in punch in the right places.
One of the best things about the concluding three is how Goodkind tied in events from all of the previous books. I have thought of the SoT series...more
One of the best things about the concluding three is how Goodkind tied in events from all of the previous books. I have thought of the SoT series...more
Who were you, Rachel Sther? I look back through the veil of time at you like Richard Rahl at the Wizard Baraccus. I think, "she has walked this path before me." I think, "she knows the terrors behind and the horrors that yet await." I think, "Like Baraccus, did she too throw herself off the parapet of the Wizard's Keep, unable to stand any more of the tortuous postfilling of plot holes, sexual violence, wooden speeches straight out of Atlas Shrugged, sexual violence, tedium, sexual violence, fru...more
Once upon a time I loved this series. If you've got this far, either you still loved it, or like me at the time this book came out you were a completest. (Goodkind and LK Hamilton cured me of that with their series.) If you still loved the series thus far, I doubt this will disappoint. If you've been hanging on hoping Goodkind would somehow redeem himself, abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Take Ja'La. A game that reminds me of ulama, played in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the death. Yes, it's...more
Take Ja'La. A game that reminds me of ulama, played in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the death. Yes, it's...more
E così si conclude sia la trilogia che la sa saga. Sì perché mentre in genere i vari volumi erano delle storie a se stanti, anche se la fine di racconto gettava le basi per l'inizio del successivo, gli ultimi tre libri sono una trilogia nel senso classico, ovvero per sapere come va a finire di devi leggere tutti e tre i volumi.
Il finale è un finale che effettivamente chiude molte cose, ad esempio si risolve di discorso dei cattivoni dell'Ordine e si risolve il discorso dei Pilastri della Creazio...more
I put most of my review for the whole series under books 1 - 5. But since this is the last book I read, I'll add a little more. Basically, I can't believe I read through the whole thing. The rape and violence got so gratuitous after 11 books. They just seemed to drag on and on forever, and all I wanted was to find out an ending for Richard and Kahlan. And the repetition! My god, if I had to read about Richard's raptor gaze or how lonely it was at the Keep one more time I was going to scream. It...more
Richard: Don't you see!!?? Reverse inversion of the psuedo-chainfire , while simultaneously transposing elementary quasi-tokens. Yes!!!!
Cara: So its like, We give em money for omelettes?
Richard : Yes cara, hah hah hah you silly mordsith, you seem to understand the principles involved, but your way of putting it really makes me chuckle.There is more to it, but no time, gotta trot.To the silph mobile!!!
also
Richard Travels to the underworld-------Trip was success
Richard: By skipping the description...more
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After 15 years of reading this series, I have finally completed it. Wow.
Was the book everything I hoped for and more? No. It wasn’t. Somewhere along the way, Goodkind lost sight of the stories and went for the long, drawn-out oratories that no one really cared to read … especially after they had read them five times before in his other SoT novels.
However, this book did bring resolution to many story lines through the 11-book series. It was gratifying to see several old characters make appearanc...more
Was the book everything I hoped for and more? No. It wasn’t. Somewhere along the way, Goodkind lost sight of the stories and went for the long, drawn-out oratories that no one really cared to read … especially after they had read them five times before in his other SoT novels.
However, this book did bring resolution to many story lines through the 11-book series. It was gratifying to see several old characters make appearanc...more
I will say this, I think Terry Goodkind is the mother of all deus ex machina's.Pretty much all of his books end up with some kind of magical or coincidental savior. That being said, I have most of these books in hardcover.The first three or so were golden, and then it went a down hill from there (although I did also love Faith of the Fallen).
It's just, where to begin?
The whole Chainfire book was awful. This book was also awful. Instead of feeling sad for either Richard or Kahlan you are just a...more
It's just, where to begin?
The whole Chainfire book was awful. This book was also awful. Instead of feeling sad for either Richard or Kahlan you are just a...more
Finally, the end of the Sword of Truth series (as we know it)
All in all, a very enjoyable book. Successfully builds tension towards the climax, and adequately ties up the majority of the numerous loose ends (probably the two toughest tasks of any final volume in a long series). There's a long section about the sport Ja'La, which might bother some readers, but I rather liked it (and it's not at all irrelevant). On the other hand, the way that the climax happened was a little too neat, perhaps a b...more
All in all, a very enjoyable book. Successfully builds tension towards the climax, and adequately ties up the majority of the numerous loose ends (probably the two toughest tasks of any final volume in a long series). There's a long section about the sport Ja'La, which might bother some readers, but I rather liked it (and it's not at all irrelevant). On the other hand, the way that the climax happened was a little too neat, perhaps a b...more
An uncertain end to a mixed bag of a series. While I enjoyed the events leading up to this book, and was glad to see an end in sight, I don't really know how to feel about the ending itself. The denouement was sorely lacking, though, and this is, I think the heart of my disappointment with the piece. Never mind my personal doubts about the thinking behind Richard's final actions, or my boredom as certain parts dragged on. What bothered me most was simply this: We follow these characters through...more
yeah, so basically the first 200 pages are a very elaborate and very boring setup ((view spoiler)), which then melts down into a complete and utter chaos, every remaining bit of logic vaporizes, and at the end it's pretty much "and they lived happily ever after because i said so dammit".
there were some very nice moments and very good scenes, but sadly, the author decided not to elaborate on those ((view spoiler)...more
there were some very nice moments and very good scenes, but sadly, the author decided not to elaborate on those ((view spoiler)...more
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Terry Goodkind is a contemporary American writer and author of the best-selling epic fantasy series, The Sword of Truth, creator of the television show The Legend of the Seeker, and writer of the self-published epic, The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus (a prequel and origin story of the first Mother Confessor). He has over 20 million copies in print and has been translated into more th...more
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