Delpheous (not verified) on December 31, 2007 - 06:15.
Long time reader, glad you're blogging again.
Here's a heads up though on Goodkind and the Sword of Truth series. It's one of the first fantasy novels I read, a good long time ago. I think/thought his ideas were real solid, his world was well built, like most of his characters etc. etc.
But then I just finished reading book two in the Wheel of Time series this week. A lot of the cool fantasy ideas I thought he came up with (I know everything has more or less been done before. . .but really, he had a more unique perspective with some things) were more or less blatantly ripped off from the Wheel of Time. It's a bit ironic too, since I started Eye of the World before I realized Confessor was out. I blasted through Confessor when I bought it, went back to Eye of the World and saw just how much he'd "borrowed" from Jordan fantasy wise.
So saying that, I know if I'd read the Wheel of Time series before I read the Sword of Truth stuff. . .I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much.
As for the preaching everyone complains about in his books, that doesn't start up until book six(Faith of the Fallen). Up till that point it's more or less more fantasy driven.
Re: Tolkien sucks and Goodkind is great!
Long time reader, glad you're blogging again.
Here's a heads up though on Goodkind and the Sword of Truth series. It's one of the first fantasy novels I read, a good long time ago. I think/thought his ideas were real solid, his world was well built, like most of his characters etc. etc.
But then I just finished reading book two in the Wheel of Time series this week. A lot of the cool fantasy ideas I thought he came up with (I know everything has more or less been done before. . .but really, he had a more unique perspective with some things) were more or less blatantly ripped off from the Wheel of Time. It's a bit ironic too, since I started Eye of the World before I realized Confessor was out. I blasted through Confessor when I bought it, went back to Eye of the World and saw just how much he'd "borrowed" from Jordan fantasy wise.
So saying that, I know if I'd read the Wheel of Time series before I read the Sword of Truth stuff. . .I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much.
As for the preaching everyone complains about in his books, that doesn't start up until book six(Faith of the Fallen). Up till that point it's more or less more fantasy driven.