Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I like(d) this Series, and I liked Ayn Rand...

...when I first read her books back in high school. There is certainly a lot of value in what she wrote, as it's thought-provoking and interesting.The Sword of Truth series, however, is something that I indulge for entirely different reasons, and as entertainment this installment falls flat on its face. Goodkind leaves out interesting subplots and characters whose fates were totally unresolved at the end of the previous book so that he can hammer home his Objectivist points. I have philosophic consonance with those points, but don't buy his books to hear them rehashed. If I really wanted that, I'd pick my copy of Atlas Shrugged back up and read it again. Heck, he even named Nicci's father "Howard". How obvious is that?