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Post by Zylaa on Jan 26, 2007 20:52:07 GMT -5
I maintain that these books are written by the same author. How else would Terry Goodkind have gotten away with the extremely blatant ripoffs of Robert Jordan?
Both books are ridiculously long-winded, though Jordan's more so. Truth be told, the first four WoT books I actually liked. But then he killed off two of the most interesting characters, the snappy woman got all soppy and lovesick, and there were just too many viewpoints.
SoT is basically WoT (see? 2/3 of the abbreviations are the same!) with a much higher rating. Gratuitous blood and gore and sex and violence everywhere. Blech.
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Post by Xicrog on Jan 26, 2007 21:45:37 GMT -5
Waitaminute. I thought you thought that Terry Goodkind was Christoper Paolini. Or are all three of them some kind of horribly perverted version of the Holy Trinity?
...well. Then they'd be the unholy trinity, but still. I contend that Robert Newcomb (or whatever his name is; the misogynist who wrote that book where every female character is evil to the core or becomes evil to the core) is worse.
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Post by Zylaa on Jan 27, 2007 0:05:05 GMT -5
... I said that Terry Goodkind was Christopher Paolini? No. I said that Christopher Paolini was my 8th-grade assistand band director at one point. But I don't remember comparing Paolini to Goodkind.
Since I am happily free of any Robert Newcomb reading, I shall maintain that Jordan and Goodkind are worse.
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Post by katanal on Jan 28, 2007 20:11:03 GMT -5
i would think the gratuitous blood and gore would make it better
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Post by Xicrog on Jan 28, 2007 21:15:03 GMT -5
Hah. Not if it's Goodkind writing. And I still vote that Paolini, Jordan, and Goodkind should henceforth be called the Unholy Trinity of Fantasy Novels.
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Post by Ebil on Feb 27, 2007 0:01:30 GMT -5
Hmm, okay, I'd never heard of this Robert Newcomb character, but you guys made him curious, so I looked him up on Wikipedia and found that some well-meaning soul had left a section entitled 'comment' on the article (Wikipedia will probably delete it soon so I C&P'd it):
o.0 Ehhhmmmm, I'm gonna steer clear of that guy's work, kthx.
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Post by Zylaa on Feb 27, 2007 13:05:09 GMT -5
0_o Wikipedia actually warned people that his opinions of women were bad? Wow.
Of course, women in Jordan's books exist to stare dissaprovingly at people and then fall madly in love with the main character- or they are potentially evil.
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Post by Zylaa on Mar 3, 2007 19:08:07 GMT -5
Sorry for double posting...
wait, I'm the dicatoradmin. Who the heck am I apologizing to?
Anyway, Xicrog's thread reminded me:
RANDOM ANECDOTE ALERT:
When I was about 13, The Guy With Too Many Nicknames reccomended the Goodkind series. Katanal, as a result, said he/she would never read the series because of that, if I'm remembering correctly. Now, after reading the Terry Goodkiind books, this makes me see TGWTMN in a whole new way.
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Post by Crystal on Jan 6, 2008 0:15:25 GMT -5
Wheel of Time was bearable. The Sword of Truth series began to make me want to gouge out my eyeballs after awhile. I couldn't finish the books, and that's a terrible thing for me; I'm -very- patient with books. I liked WoT, even, seriously.
There was no foreshadowing in Sword of Truth aside from a few pages at the end of the book before it. Each book felt tacked on... badly planned, with the main character just getting more love and attention, and of course, he's always right.
I didn't like how he preached, either. D: Paolini was heavyhanded, and Goodkind was heavyhanded. At least Jordan was subtle.
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