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A review by jfkaess
Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
2.0
This is a rarity. You will almost never see me rate a book as 2 stars because i normally abandon a book that would end up with a 1 or a 2 star rating because i don't have enough time left in life to waste it on crappy books. I've been a fan of The Sword of Truth series from books 1-4, and i found book 5 to be just an OK book, not quite up to the first four in the series.
Book 6, however, is an entirely different matter. Goodkind has left writing fantasy and instead has decided to write a book of propaganda. The story is pushed aside in order to allow diatribes, pedantic teachings, and pure nonsense to take its place. Goodkind is apparently a devotee of Ayn Rand, and that is what this book is about, merely using the normal characters as a way to espouse Rand's propaganda. If you are not familiar with her beliefs, i'll summarize them:
- Helping people is evil
- People are poor because they are lazy
- People are rich because they work harder than poor people
- The rich deserve their wealth
- The poor deserve their poverty
- Capitalism is the solution to all the problems of mankind.
All six of those premises are false.
Goodkind allows for no nuance or any type of reality to intrude on his propaganda piece. I can no longer recommend his writings after finishing this book.
Book 6, however, is an entirely different matter. Goodkind has left writing fantasy and instead has decided to write a book of propaganda. The story is pushed aside in order to allow diatribes, pedantic teachings, and pure nonsense to take its place. Goodkind is apparently a devotee of Ayn Rand, and that is what this book is about, merely using the normal characters as a way to espouse Rand's propaganda. If you are not familiar with her beliefs, i'll summarize them:
- Helping people is evil
- People are poor because they are lazy
- People are rich because they work harder than poor people
- The rich deserve their wealth
- The poor deserve their poverty
- Capitalism is the solution to all the problems of mankind.
All six of those premises are false.
Goodkind allows for no nuance or any type of reality to intrude on his propaganda piece. I can no longer recommend his writings after finishing this book.