Naked Empire

"Had some of my favorite quotes from Richard. An amazing message."

"I just don't understand how a book series can go from such an imaginative colorful interesting story (book 1) to this repetitive, boring, colorless, preachy diatribe. The only reason I'm still listening is because I hope that at some point there will be a point. Only I'm afraid that the last book will just be one long rehashing of the whole series (in which less and less actual story is told because he spends most of each book repeating the previous all of the books). I miss the mud people. I miss Gratch. I miss Kahlan being a badass. I miss other people having brains. There was one lovely moment toward the end of this book that included long lost characters and a comical rescue scene that made it more worth my time. I just finally started skimming the rest in 30 sec intervals because I'm listening to it (which doesn't help because Jim Bond sounds like the male version of Siri reading these books). If I were actually reading this series in physical books, I'd still be on the third book. <br/><br/>ETA - one part of this book is bugging the **** out of me. The entire section about Richard realizing that his reasons for not eating meat were irrational is contradictory to the first part of this series in which one of the telltale signs of a wizard is they develop "unique eating habits". Richard initially just got nauseous at the thought of eating meat, he just later tried to find a reason for why his particular eating habit manifested the way it did. He didn't DECIDE to stop eating meat - it was part of his Wizardness. And when I think about and get annoyed by that, I also get annoyed by all of the times in these books he has left out that Wizards sleep with their eyes open. SO MANY of the little unique things that made the first book or two so charming have been lost amidst the muck and re-preachery of these later books."