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18th May '13 12:07:10 PM nombretomado

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17th May '13 3:41:33 PM Sammettik

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** For many readers, the ''SwordOfTruth'' series from start to finish is among the worst dreck ever to climb its way out of the cesspool of bad fantasy and become a hit. For these readers, ''Naked Empire'' is more the straw that broke the camel's back than it is an example of the series getting worse. Imagine the most bargain-basement writing skills; stilted dialogue, clunky prose, large chunks of exposition, [[AnAesop aesops]] so obvious you'd think the book was written for children, constant reminders of how awesome the lead character is, {{Expies}} so thin they might as well just be the person he's writing about, ham-fisted speeches that go on for pages and pages so that the author can [[AuthorFilibuster sermonize]] his readers, and even a tinge of racism (Richard, the lead character, teaches a poor backward tribe how to make roofs that don't leak. The tribe's name? [[UnfortunateImplications Mud People]]. All topped off by a writer with clear Narcissistic Personality Disorder and a hard-on for Ayn Rand, who has never heard of subtlety.

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* As ''Crossroads of Twilight'' is to ''WheelOfTime'', ''Naked Empire'' represents the bottom-of-the-barrel for Terry Goodkind's ''SwordOfTruth'' series. This book, even more than the others before it, is mostly [[AuthorTract one gigantic sermon against communism and pacifism]], containing the infamous "[[StrawmanPolitical evil-pacifist]]" plot of Bandakar. Even outside the conflict, Richard's dialogue is constantly saturated with Goodkind's views when he's talking to his friends. (At one point, he and his half-sister discuss the "right" of hair to live on a person's head. ''It's that bad.'') The main plot of the series is advanced barely an inch by the end of this book, there are [[CharacterFilibuster speeches]] that go on for pages or even ''whole chapters'', the plot's resolved in one of the most blatant {{Deus Ex Machina}}s in literature, and...ah, screw it — go look at the reviews on [[http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Empire-Sword-Truth-Book/product-reviews/0765344300/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Amazon.com]] if you want more proof.
** For many readers, the ''SwordOfTruth'' series from start to finish is among the worst dreck ever to climb its way out of the cesspool of bad fantasy and become a hit. For these readers, ''Naked Empire'' is more the straw that broke the camel's back than it is an example of the series getting worse. Imagine the most bargain-basement writing skills; stilted dialogue, clunky prose, large chunks of exposition, [[AnAesop aesops]] so obvious you'd think the book was written for children, constant reminders of how awesome the lead character is, [[Expy expies]] so thin they might as well just be the person he's writing about, ham-fisted speeches that go on for pages and pages so that the author can [[AuthorFilibuster sermonize]] his readers, and even a tinge of racism (Richard, the lead character, teaches a poor backward tribe how to make roofs that don't leak. The tribe's name? [[UnfortunateImplications Mud People]]. All topped off by a writer with clear Narcissistic Personality Disorder and a hard-on for Ayn Rand, who has never heard of subtlety.

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* As ''Crossroads of Twilight'' is to ''WheelOfTime'', ''Naked Empire'' represents the bottom-of-the-barrel for Terry Goodkind's ''SwordOfTruth'' series. This book, even more than the others before it, is mostly [[AuthorTract one gigantic sermon against communism and pacifism]], containing the infamous "[[StrawmanPolitical evil-pacifist]]" plot of Bandakar. Even outside the conflict, Richard's dialogue is constantly saturated with Goodkind's views when he's talking to his friends. (At one point, he and his half-sister discuss the "right" of hair to live on a person's head. ''It's that bad.'') The main plot of the series is advanced barely an inch by the end of this book, there are [[CharacterFilibuster speeches]] that go on for pages or even ''whole chapters'', and the plot's resolved in one of the most blatant {{Deus Ex Machina}}s in literature. go look at the reviews on [[http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Empire-Sword-Truth-Book/product-reviews/0765344300/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Amazon.com]] if you want more proof.
** For many readers, the ''SwordOfTruth'' series from start to finish is among the worst dreck ever to climb its way out of the cesspool of bad fantasy and become a hit. For these readers, ''Naked Empire'' is more the straw that broke the camel's back than it is an example of the series getting worse. Imagine the most bargain-basement writing skills; stilted dialogue, clunky prose, large chunks of exposition, [[AnAesop aesops]] so obvious you'd think the book was written for children, constant reminders of how awesome the lead character is, {{Expies}} so thin they might as well just be the person he's writing about, ham-fisted speeches that go on for pages and pages so that the author can [[AuthorFilibuster sermonize]] his readers, and even a tinge of racism (Richard, the lead character, teaches a poor backward tribe how to make roofs that don't leak. The tribe's name? [[UnfortunateImplications Mud People]]. All topped off by a writer with clear Narcissistic Personality Disorder and a hard-on for Ayn Rand, who has never heard of subtlety.

17th May '13 12:13:06 PM HMSaph

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6th May '13 4:13:48 PM boromirfromgondor

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* Believe it or not, Jacqueline Susann wrote a science fiction novel — the proto-ParanormalRomance ''Yargo''. She wrote it sometime in TheFifties, but it never got published until her husband found the manuscript among her possessions after her death in TheSeventies. It's not hard to see why she never published it herself. The novel concerns a young woman who's [[AlienAbduction pulled up into a UFO]] and taken to planet Yargo, [[{{Egopolis}} which is named after its Yul-Brynner-lookalike emperor]]. Emperor Yargo doesn't want an inferior Earthling on his nice shiny planet, but for some reason won't send her back where she came from. After many tedious arguments, [[StrangledByTheRedString they fall in love]] and Yargo admits that the human customs of romance, marriage, religion, and shopping are superior to the Yargonian way of life, which seems to consist mostly of emperor-worship. The heroine is whiny, self-righteous, and grating; Emperor Yargo is so massively conceited [[{{Narm}} that the reader can only laugh at him]]. There's also a few dull sub-plots concerning the [[TheReptilians Lizard-Men]] of Mars and the [[BeePeople Bee-Men]] of Venus, both of which Miss Earthling finds [[BeautyEqualsGoodness revoltingly ugly]]; she never stops to think that they might feel the same way about ''her''. But what really makes this book a pain to read is its hidebound 1950s provincialism. In Susann's universe, [[UnfortunateImplications anything different is bad, and any creature that doesn't look human is a monster]].

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13th Apr '13 6:02:11 AM thegoodsamaritan

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25th Mar '13 9:48:33 AM jmparker78

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**For many readers, the ''SwordOfTruth'' series from start to finish is among the worst dreck ever to climb its way out of the cesspool of bad fantasy and become a hit. For these readers, ''Naked Empire'' is more the straw that broke the camel's back than it is an example of the series getting worse. Imagine the most bargain-basement writing skills; stilted dialogue, clunky prose, large chunks of exposition, [[AnAesop aesops]] so obvious you'd think the book was written for children, constant reminders of how awesome the lead character is, [[Expy expies]] so thin they might as well just be the person he's writing about, ham-fisted speeches that go on for pages and pages so that the author can [[AuthorFilibuster sermonize]] his readers, and even a tinge of racism (Richard, the lead character, teaches a poor backward tribe how to make roofs that don't leak. The tribe's name? [[UnfortunateImplications Mud People]]. All topped off by a writer with clear Narcissistic Personality Disorder and a hard-on for Ayn Rand, who has never heard of subtlety.

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