[News] Sword of Truth series, wrappin' up in a month

A wander over to Terry Goodkind's devotional shrine will reveal that the last book in the Sword of Truth series has been "finsihed" (I love that typo in boldface right on the front page).



Well? Anybody here enjoy flogging themselves with the increasing amount of pages-long speeches about objectivism that have bogged down the last few books in the series? I have to admit I've been reading them for the last six years or so. It definitely has its share of haters, that's for sure (if the Jordan is dead thread is any indication, and it is), and it's perfectly understandable; Goodkind has never written a book before this series and that's pretty clear.

I recently finished the penultimate book, Phantom, and am glad this story is coming to a close. I am still interested in how everything wraps up, despite the number of things that piss me off about it. Anybody else toughing it out to the end? Thoughts on the series in general or Goodkind's remarkable ability for utterly bland prose?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah the fifth was a bit of a deviant. The sixth one really was magnificent but they started becoming unnecessary around books 7 and 8, and continually irrelevant to what the author had set up as the main plot earlier.

There's nowhere I can't reach.