Slow news week

It’s been quiet lately. One of those slow news weeks where nothing notable really happens. I like these periods. Gives me some time to unwind and focus on other things.

Finally finished Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind. The 8th book in that epic Sword of Truth series. I thought this book was better than the last one. I think it wrapped up nicely, and seems to be starting to set the stage for the endgame. Now I have to go back and re-read the series again.

The last few books (6, 7 and 8) in the series have been rather interesting. The more I think about them, the more they seem like a philosophical treatise on the nature of people, free will and the morality of the choices people make, disguised as a fantasy novel. Perhaps this is what the author is trying to do. Some of it is very thought provoking. I’ll have to read the series all over again to try to collect them all in my head for further analysis.

In the meantime, I leave you with Wolf_Gal’s collection of the Wizard’s Rules from the Sword of Truth Series.

• Wizard’s First Rule: People are stupid.
• Wizard’s Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
• Wizard’s Third Rule: Passion rules reason.
• Wizard’s Fourth Rule: There is magic in sincere forgiveness.
• Wizard’s Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
• Wizard’s Sixth Rule: The only soverign we can allow to rule us is reason.
• Wizard’s Seventh Rule: Life is the future, not the past.
• And from the latest book,
• Wizard’s Eighth Rule: Deserve victory