rofl. they all live happily ever after anyway.

just finished Chainfire....on to Phamtom then Confessor

I can't wait to finish the series now (while sick, I read 400 pages in the hospital yesterday to finish Chainfire)

Here it is in a nutshell. The first 3-4 books were amazing. You could almost laugh and cry with the characters. Everything he wrote about you could feel. Sadly that did not last towards the end of the series. Especially the last book was highly dissapointing. All he did was repeate the same facts over and over such as Nicci being Death's Mistress, over and over he put her up so high. We already knew Nicci was all those things.. same thing with Richard Rhal, we already know he is the one stone out of 1000000, we already know he is the ripple in time, just like Jesus. Either way.. on the last book Goodkind flopped out. It started off good, then got very repetitive. It was pretty predictable about what was going to happen. Sigh... It pains me to say this but when you finished reading the work and take a step back it seemed like Goodkind just wanted to finish the book and get it over with, as though we was bored with it and wanted it to be over.

Edit: Sorry, my nutshells are quite large.

This post was edited by Sacks on Jan 23 2008 12:54am

Agree. There is about 100 pages in the middle that are almost unbearable. Parts of the book were interesting/exciting but too much filler for my liking. Most of "Confessor", seemed painfully slow and uneventful compared to the first 3-4 books.

It's kind of sad really becuase those books had such great potential. I did not like how he related the book to real life. That the other world created is basically our world and all that nonsense. In some parts it's true, but it really annoyed me. I thought he could've done so much more with that story line. Sigh. Made me angry I wasted money on it. Oh well thats life. I'm still reading R.A. Salvatore and his Drow series. He is one of the last fantasy writers that I'm left with. Do you know of anymore that write good long lasting sagas? I read everything by Margrey Wise and Tracy Hickman already and their books were simply amazing. If this is it for the fantasy/sci-fi genre then... lets go James Patterson! His books still kick ass though Double Cross was so-so. Nothing special.

i will agree that the writing changed after the first few books. i think that's when his "shock value" started wearing off himself. it almost seemed like he was trying to impress with how detailed he could be and how gory/torturous he could write.

In the first few books, I don't think he was trying to impress anyone by being all gory and tortuous. I think he was mostly trying to get us to understand how the characters felt by trying to make them as real as possible. He was trying to get us to understand the full capacity of the delima that the characters faced at that time with Janga and his band of freaks. The only way to do that is to go into as much detail as possible so that we could grasp a better understading and come to terms with the characters and their situations.

But your right about that "shock value" though, it did wear off, because he strayed away from the details and soon became very repetitive. If only he still cared for the stories, such a waste of a great story line.

His books are shocking?

For someone not use to reading about such things, it is shocking the first time around.

one of my personal training clients got me started reading the SOT series.....she almost couldn't finish the first few books. that's what I mean about shock value. those who are not used to having to stomach anything about gore.

personally, it wasn't bad at all, but i've been reading stories like such and have worked in plenty of real-life gory situations that there wans't much "shock value"

i do wish he would have kept at the details.

speaking of details, does gratch ever come back in play? or does he just disappear with his new mate?