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Confessor (Sword of Truth 11) | 
| Author: Terry Goodkind
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1566
Media: Paperback
Pages: 388
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0007250835
EAN: 9780007250837
ASIN: 0007250835
Publication Date: November 3, 2008
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 The defenition of boredom January 8, 2009
The last book of the Sword of Truth series, Confessor, is the most boring annoying and presumptuous book of fantasy I have ever read and I have read a lot. Terry Goodkind REALLY had a good story in the first four books and if he would stop running into absurd dia-monologues in the last three books of which Confessor is defenitely the worse he could have gotten away with it.
As it stands I finished reading Confessor because as a rule I always finish a book once started but it was really, really hard.
I am not sure I will buy another book from this author in the future... As one of the reviewer-readers stated when did he stop knowing what and how to write?
 should have been fewer books December 29, 2008
this was a poor end to a promising series of books the last 5 books could have been written as one if mr goodkind had not written the same moralising text again & again & again & again,the ending was so bad a 5 year must have written it
Soooo disappointing December 28, 2008
What a huge disappointment. Terry Goodkind was obviously bored before writing this book and definitely during....what a shame. Don't buy....you know who wins in the end....
Over at last! December 12, 2008
What would I have wanted to know before I purchased this product? That is is the last in the series, thankfully. The same horrified compulsion that brings me to read the Daily Mail has kept me comping back the Sword of Truth series long after I began to hate the central characters and the interminable, rambling and incoherent moralising that Terry Goodkind is insistent on force feeding his readers.
Even the proof readers gave up on this book, as evidenced by the numerous typos littering the text. It would appear that even Goodkind gives up halfway through, as one character sees a "wingman" scoring a point in a pseudo American Football game only to remark to herself two pages later when another wingman scores a similar point that she has never seen such a thing.
Spotting such inconsistencies is much more entertaining than reading swathes of moralising speeches cut and pasted from books 4-9, although to give the book its due there are a couple of good action sequences. There then follows a hurried tidying of loose ends, more deus ex machinas than Mona Lisa Overdrive and a reasonably satisfying conclusion to the Book of Counted Shadows riddle, before Goodkind loses the plot once more.
If it was so easy to get rid of all the main villlains, why not do it before?
Why do several main characters cheerily condemn themselves and their children to a souless existence, forever giving up a chance at the afterlife, with a slight shrug and brief farewell?
What went wrong with such a promising fantasy series? I have to say, I don't really care. I will never have to read another Goodkind book again, and can carry on with much more intelligent fantasy fare. Malazan, here I come...
Oh dear October 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The final book in one of the greatest epic series of all time" - aye right. I read the first few and gave up when the plot was lost early on. Epic series? No, just like the Shannara books latter days, it has is going for the buck.
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