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Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 3 (Sword Of Truth, Book 11) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terry Goodkind
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.8
ISBN: 0765315238
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: November 13, 2007
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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.
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 insult to those who truly do fight for the right to life July 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the most awful ending I ever read in my life!
And worse because many of his books in this series were so awesome.
I really loved most of his books.But...I just read finished the last book last night.I got it from the library. I'm thanking God I didn't buy it.When I got it from the library, I noticed the spine was all broken and torn. I was intending to fix it...but now I realize it must have been because the last reader threw it against the wall.
I was tempted to as well, but didn't.
It was as monotonous and amateurish. Where the heck was his editor??
I should have listened and not read the book and just made up my own ending.
The one thing I think I hated the most was the way he ended it the whole boring slog.... It was COMPLETELY obnoxious.
His theme in most of the books was to protesting religious zealotry. Those in the Order where following some misguided notion that they were killing in the name of the creator and lived under very communistic conditions.
As I read Confessor the preaching and reminding got so irritating I ended up simply skipping pages and pages of 'reminders'.
Through out the series there seemed to be an acknowledged basic natural(and good) desire to connect with the Creator and the spiritual connection in all of us. And that there was indeed an afterlife and he seemed to be pointing out that those killing in the name of the Creator are wrong.
Also, Goodkind spends many chapters explaining the 'theology' of his fantasy world....how magic works and is connected with the underworld etc etc..But then he completely trashes it AND connects his fantasy world to our real world!!! The whole effect was disconcerting and took away from the 'fairy tale ending'...because you know in this ending the Creator is dead, or consigned to some corner and told not to bother anyone ever again.
In the end Richard destroys the entire afterlife for those banished to the non magic world, where he conveniently alludes to those formally of the Order are now the 'building churches'!!! What?)
Not mosques, not temples, not circles...but CHURCHES! (and not just any Churches, but CATHOLIC churches because they use medals and 'talismans'. What?
Excuse me? Is Terry Goodkind really this ignorant, or is he just another patsy for the secular order that is encroaching with the culture of death?
Does anyone want a link to pictures of happy young muslims brandishing the hands of Christians they collected for allah???? Those of the Order where more like militant islam and the Saracens of history and militant communism and nazi's rolled up in one!! Knowing that as of this minute while I write this thousands of Christians are being executed for 'blasphemy' and oppressed with well documented sharia dhimmi laws in muslim countries or as in communist China's case, having children ripped from their wombs because they value life and would want to welcome a new child among them,...but it's against the godless of laws of china. Or what about the mass graves of Orthodox and catholic priests and nuns from Communist Russia and it's former satellites??
What an insult to those really truly have and are suffering on behalf of the values of life and liberty.
Ugh. I was completely irritated that I even read the series to begin with. I will not bother to watch the TV series.
My advice is save yourself aggravation and money and skip this series.
It's a garden path to nowhere.
M~
 Am epic end July 13, 2008
Terry neatly wraps this book up, and from the beginning you can see this is the end, as all the knots are tied into nice packages. Overall, I give this a 4 of 5 stars because it wasn't up to par of almost all the previous books. It wasn't a book I couldn't put down till it was finished, but overall it's a clean ending.
Bad rip off July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are going to copy another authors' work at least try to improve on it. This terrible ripoff of the Wheel of Time actually makes that stretched an redundant series look like a great literary work. Just garbage, do not bother.
Do I really want to start reading this series again?!?! July 4, 2008
Like most of the reviewers here I started with the "Wizard's First Rule" when it first came out, and fell in love with it. In all honesty you could probably read just that one and let it go with that. Maybe "Stone of Tears" as well but anything beyond that your going to have to be prepared for the good, the bad, and the really repetitive.
Because the truth of the mater, at least for me, is that, as tired as I got with hearing the same themes repeated, as much as I found myself mumbling, "I get it already," there is still something undeniably compelling about the story itself.
I just finished reading "Confessor"and as much as I hate reading page after page of the same drivel the characters have been spouting for the last 4 or 5 books, I actually found myself enjoying the book non-the-less. So much so I almost reached over for my well worn copy of the "Wizard's First Rule" Stopping just short of actually opening it up to read. It's like there is a chalk drawing of me in a cave somewhere reading these damn books!
Honestly I kind of zoned out on the parts that were less than interesting but there was enough there to keep me going. Even if some of it did feel forced. The time and care that was put into the rhetoric could have been put into connecting some of the scenes a little more coherently.
I think that it is fairly obvious that the author's passions for his subject matter overrode his storytelling. So mush so I am wondering if he didn't fire an editor as I kept stumbling over typos.
You've kind of got to hand it to him though, he accomplish quiet the story epic... now do I really want to wade through all that crap again for the gems that come fewer and far between as the story draws out...
Maybe I can just stop after "Pillar's of Creation"... who am I kidding.
Spare Us the Sermon June 30, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What started out as one of the more entertaining series in the fantasy genre, has degenerated into one of the most formulaic, repetitive and useless waste of print around.
The author's main focus for the last 4 or 5 books of the series has not been entertainment or to even tell a good story. Rather the focus is to promote Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy. This is a philosophy that worships reason over faith and views the idea of a heaven or afterlife as abhorrent. The philosophy also stresses the individual, and personal achievement, which has it's merits, but it views the idea of self sacrifice, the cornerstone of christian thinking, as evil.
The evil empire in this book, the Order, is a twisted mix of christianity, sprinkled with perhaps some muslim philosophies as well. The author devotes page after page to nothing but preaching his atheistic screed and attacking 'faith'. In fact all of the 'good guys' in the book repeat the same arguments over and over again, so that there does not appear to be any significant character development. They all take the voice of the author.
The author also waste some pages developing his 'perfect man' Richard Rahl into his dream god of Objectivism, armed however with various wizard powers. No doubt his own personal wish list is at work here, since the hero wins the love of two beautiful women, his wife Kahlan and his 'friend' Nicci. Since Nicci is the loser in the love triangle, she's permitted to be repeatedly raped and tortured for the sake of the Objectivist god Richard.
Meanwhile the plot tension that 'builds' is the same formula used in the past. Our hero(s) get captured by the bad guys. Hero escapes, bad guys all die thanks to the last second intervention of some obvious allies. Yawn.
Since this book is really a philosophical tirade, it should be criticized for it's flaws on this basis as well. Last time I checked atheism, in a couple of centuries has slaughtered more innocents then all the other religions put together. Just look at the atheist heros, Stalin, Mao, Robespierre, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, etc. Maybe the author feels these dictators did the right thing since so many of their victims were christians.
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