Shanti's review
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, Book 6)
by Terry Goodkind
Shanti's review
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, Book 6) by Terry Goodkind
Shanti's review
rating:
recommended for: Not So Much
Alrighty, then ... I just finished it. I will be on to something else in my library for a while. Tired of Goodkind rehashing who characters are and their past relationships for pages. If one's been reading in sequence, we arlready know who they are.
There is two points that crossed the line of tedium:
1. Goodkind dives in headfirst into exploration ofsocialism vs. capitalism and totalitarianism vs. deomocracy with two of the characters for what seems like an eterinty. While I embrace this exploration with Victor Hugo, Goodkind's journey on the subject feels more like five courses of McDonalds rather than (for expample)Hugo's thought provocing five courses of delicacies. Goodkind dictates his theories like a preacher at a podium. It becomes tedious and preachy. This is not his idiom.
2. Head on journey into the dogma of religion. It is becomming page after page of debate. Many pages are filled with no character interaction, but character refelction on what their current perc...more
There is two points that crossed the line of tedium:
1. Goodkind dives in headfirst into exploration ofsocialism vs. capitalism and totalitarianism vs. deomocracy with two of the characters for what seems like an eterinty. While I embrace this exploration with Victor Hugo, Goodkind's journey on the subject feels more like five courses of McDonalds rather than (for expample)Hugo's thought provocing five courses of delicacies. Goodkind dictates his theories like a preacher at a podium. It becomes tedious and preachy. This is not his idiom.
2. Head on journey into the dogma of religion. It is becomming page after page of debate. Many pages are filled with no character interaction, but character refelction on what their current perc...more
