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705666 No.705666 [Reply] [Original]

Is this meant to be serious?

>> No.705678

Take a look at the cover again. Guess.

>> No.705682
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705682

>>705678

You lack moral clarity.

>> No.705687

This is the Ctrl-Alt-Del of fantasy literature.

>> No.705689
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705689

>>705687

>> No.705690

>>705682
That line gets me EVERY fucking time. Goddamn, Goodkind is a comic genius.

>> No.705695
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705695

Its meant to be taken seriously, however I found it a hard series to finish because the author makes me facepalm about every other chapter.

I guess I'm just tired of the ubermensch protagonist who is a thinly veiled political argument.

And whats with everyone getting raped all the time?!

>> No.705696
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705696

>>705690

>> No.705699
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705699

>>705695

>> No.705701

Terry looks pretty badass for a fantasy writer. Are there any out there that could take him?

>> No.705703

>>705701
He looks like a guy who studies karate for years but has never been in a real fight.

>> No.705704

I legitimately enjoyed the first three because I don't read enough fantasy to know the cliches. I wish I wouldn't have read all the way to naked empire or whatever the fuck that terrible on was.

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705709

>>705703

>> No.705708

>>705703
>badass for a fantasy writer

>> No.705707
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705707

>>705701

I'm banging Tori Amos

>> No.705716

>>705704
I bought and read the whole series even though I knew what it was about.

I hate leaving things incomplete. Even shitty series.

>> No.705724
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705724

>>705701

NOTHING CAN DEFEAT ROBERT JORDAN.
except cancer.

>> No.705726

>>705716
I just didn't give a fuck anymore. Otherwise I'm the same way. There are only two other books I've never cared enough to finish.

>> No.705727

I read and moderately enjoyed the whole series.

But then I am not the type to get up my own ass about stupid political bullshit, and I just enjoy things for what they are.

Faggots.

>> No.705734

>>705727
It's not even the ideas themselves that bother me, It's just that ham-fisted way that they are shoved into the story.

>> No.705735

>>705727

Homosexuals lack moral clarity.

I do not lack moral clarity.

I am not a homosexual.

>> No.705743

>>705735

Moral clarity means only that one must know what is right and what is wrong for themselves.

They are perfectly moral so long as they do not think that their own actions are evil.

>> No.705750

>>705743

Oh, they know their own actions are evil.

>> No.705807
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705807

>>705701

>GRRM used Body Slam!

>> No.705820

Read the first book, started the second.
At some point I realized that the second book was the first one recycled.
I have low tolerance for this kind of crap (hence I never finished "The wheel of time").

>> No.705849 [DELETED] 

>>705663

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>> No.705863

>>705807

Don't exert yourself.
Please... Please don't die ;_;

>> No.705939
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705939

>>705701
I'm pretty sure R.A. Salvatore is still the strongest man in fantasy fiction. (No one said it had to be good fantasy).

>> No.705964

What kind of political agenda does terry put in his books?

>> No.705974

>>705964
The type Ayn Rand did.

>> No.705975

>>705964
No. Bad troll. Go away.

>> No.705988

>>705974
Uhm?
>>705975
Troll? I've read about 5-6 books into the series and yes, the political thing is quite strong, as well as the morals and shit, but I can't put my finger on what Goodkind is actually trying to force through his books. Cult of personality? Benevolent tyranny?

>> No.705994

>4. There is to be no discussion of Ayn Rand.

>> No.705997

>>705988
Objectivism. And a benevolent dictator leading it. You really didn't pick that up?

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>>705994
>My face when I just checked and that's actually a rule.

>> No.706014

>>705988
Stop reading right now. The sixth book is where anything redeeming crawls away and dies. Well the seventh isn't that bad but it doesn't have any of the main characters so you'll just get drawn into the eighth regardless. And you don't want that.

>> No.706049

>>705997
I read them before I had knowledge of those, now it's starting to make sense. I should maybe reread them, it's been quite a few years. Last book I read was Naked Empire, so I was actually further in than I thought.
Damn, a fantasy Rand? Happens. But I actually like a few devices in the novels such as the towers that seperated the new and old worlds and I loved the Dominie Dirch. But aside from that it reads like a spanish soap opera turned into a book.

>> No.706051

>>705666
OP its Randroid fantasy

>> No.706052

I always get Goodkin, Jordan, Martin confused
I dont know why I cant tell them apart

>> No.706061

>>706052

...They are pretty distinctive figures.

>> No.706062

>>705707
these days he is banging the chick from Dresden Dolls

>> No.706067

>>705701
Fritz Leiber was a professional swordsman, he'd have cut him up

>> No.706068

No, honestly. What's wrong with holding a philosophy that my own happiness should be my moral purpose?

>> No.706077

>>705664

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>> No.706076

>>706068
you destroy everything else for that purpose

>> No.706089

>>706076
i think it takes a pretty emotionally undeveloped person to wave his hand broadly and say "if you follow this philosophy, then you destroy everything to do so". Do you really think there are no such followers who DON'T destroy everything? I guess I don't know much about this philosophy and was hoping for some mature discussion about it, but seeing that an opposing viewpoint is held only by braindead teenagers, I'm going back to /b/.

>> No.706093

>>706089
Rand is an argument in favour of psychopathy

>> No.706100

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>> No.706102

>>706100

Does it say "no mention of"? No?