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Zoenne t1_ixv1lim wrote

Reply to comment by LordOfTheStrings8 in Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind: worth the read? by Sacred-Moose

Yep, this whole book is basically "won't anyone think of the plight of entrepreneurs under communism?"

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molly_the_mezzo t1_ixv5jvg wrote

I genuinely think the series is fun and I like it, but when I recommend it I give like 20 warnings, and tell them to either skip book six, or just cut their losses after five.

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Zoenne t1_ixv6p1s wrote

Yeah I don't actually recommend it anymore, because it's just Too Much in many ways XD For me it's clear there was a big drop in quality after book 5, but we couldn't have known that when we read the series as it was being published. So if you're already invested you might as well continue, if you see what I mean? I re-read the first few books a couple of times each when I was waiting for the later ones to come out, and then I read those mostly out of curiosity about how it ended. I read The Omen Machine when it came out (marketed as "a Richard and Kahlan novel", set directly after the last book of SoT) and just hated it. I havent read any of the Nicci books either.

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bpusef t1_ixv6s48 wrote

Tbh book 5 is probably worse.

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molly_the_mezzo t1_ixv76ef wrote

I can handle anything but that goddamn statue, I don't care how bad it is lol

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bpusef t1_ixvsmtt wrote

You may actually be right. The statue is maybe the most absurd thing in the story.

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