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melodine 's review for:
Naked Empire
by Terry Goodkind
These books would be so much better if the author just told the story and stopped trying to force feed beliefs down your throat.
For example, in this delightful romp, Richard met a sole man from a far off land who Richard gave many a lecture to about the value of life.
Then Richard met some of this man's village mates and had a chapter + giving the same lectures to all of them about the value of life.
THEN he met some of the wise men of the man's people and told the same lectures again!!!
Plus there were refresher lectures in-between and after all these main lectures. I can only assume that Terry Goodkind thinks his audience is excessively stupid (and given his interviews I think that is it).
For those of you who are curious I will summarize the lectures in three brief points:
- if you value your life you will be willing to fight for it.
- not making a choice or choosing not to fight is actually helping the enemy
- there's no compromise with people who rape, torture, and/or murder
Also it should be noted that for this book and all others, one should remember that Richard is always the most right and it is always his way or the highway. But honestly if it gets him to shut up then I definitely support agreeing with whatever the hell he says.
Aside from all the lectures the story was fairly enjoyable. Plus Goodkind has toned down the excessive rape and violence towards women and descriptions of how traumatized they are to the occasional one liners.
For example, in this delightful romp, Richard met a sole man from a far off land who Richard gave many a lecture to about the value of life.
Then Richard met some of this man's village mates and had a chapter + giving the same lectures to all of them about the value of life.
THEN he met some of the wise men of the man's people and told the same lectures again!!!
Plus there were refresher lectures in-between and after all these main lectures. I can only assume that Terry Goodkind thinks his audience is excessively stupid (and given his interviews I think that is it).
For those of you who are curious I will summarize the lectures in three brief points:
- if you value your life you will be willing to fight for it.
- not making a choice or choosing not to fight is actually helping the enemy
- there's no compromise with people who rape, torture, and/or murder
Also it should be noted that for this book and all others, one should remember that Richard is always the most right and it is always his way or the highway. But honestly if it gets him to shut up then I definitely support agreeing with whatever the hell he says.
Aside from all the lectures the story was fairly enjoyable. Plus Goodkind has toned down the excessive rape and violence towards women and descriptions of how traumatized they are to the occasional one liners.