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jamevaThe point of this journal so far is to keep track of LJ/IJ people moving here, but as happened with IJ, I probably will start being fandomly active here as well, if I don't find a different use for it until then. I have begun considering starting a form of review journal, from books to movies to recipes and everything in between, and this might be a useful place to start. Hmmmm.
Ah, why the hell not.
Books
These will mostly be fantasy-oriented, since it's my preferred style. The occasional historical fiction might pop up.
Naked Empire is...well, disappointing, to put it bluntly. It read like one huge sermon, with the main character, Richard, explaining and repeating, in great detail, the same positions over and over again. The plot, while it could have been promising, was taken down a very simplistic route with very simplistic answers. In the end, not a whole lot happened at all, and the most interesting of it all was skimmed over. The only reason I ploughed through nonetheless is because I wanted to see how it ended; how Richard survived being poisoned and how Zedd and Addie got away from Jagang, essentialy. But the solutions to those problems disappointed. Magic felt like the easy way out, as if Goodkind had concentrated so much on the moral and ethical monologues that he didn't bother fleshing out the actual plot.
The writing in itself is still as good as ever, and whatever action there is is interesting, but my eyes tended to gloss over the dialogues, since they were too long, repetitive and stopped working for the story after the first few chapters. Unfortunately, in this smaller volume of the Sword of Truth series, dialogues represent a mighty big chunk of the book.
Ah, why the hell not.
Books
These will mostly be fantasy-oriented, since it's my preferred style. The occasional historical fiction might pop up.
Naked Empire is...well, disappointing, to put it bluntly. It read like one huge sermon, with the main character, Richard, explaining and repeating, in great detail, the same positions over and over again. The plot, while it could have been promising, was taken down a very simplistic route with very simplistic answers. In the end, not a whole lot happened at all, and the most interesting of it all was skimmed over. The only reason I ploughed through nonetheless is because I wanted to see how it ended; how Richard survived being poisoned and how Zedd and Addie got away from Jagang, essentialy. But the solutions to those problems disappointed. Magic felt like the easy way out, as if Goodkind had concentrated so much on the moral and ethical monologues that he didn't bother fleshing out the actual plot.
The writing in itself is still as good as ever, and whatever action there is is interesting, but my eyes tended to gloss over the dialogues, since they were too long, repetitive and stopped working for the story after the first few chapters. Unfortunately, in this smaller volume of the Sword of Truth series, dialogues represent a mighty big chunk of the book.