[EsperKing]

What are your likes and dislikes?

ive seen refrences in other threads about lots of TG bashing so i was wondering what people dislike about him? this is a discussion so please lets not resort to nanny nanny poo poo

[Rob B]

It HAS been a while since TG has been discussed...


Here we go again... http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Eventine]

Why not look through some of the archived topics? You'll see some of the reasonable (and unreasonable) arguments for and against Terry Goodkinds books

[Eventine]

And just to try and further prevent this turning into an 8 page flame, here are a few links to previous discussions:
http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20010216-1-000051.html http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000008/HTML/20011012-1-000597.html http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000012/HTML/20011231-1-000678.html http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000013/HTML/20020117-1-000992.html

It's all been done before...

[ChrisW]

Nothing wrong with fresh disscusion or Goodkind.

[Qin]

Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind. The topic that won't go away. News at 11.

[Zsinj16]

NANNY NANNY POO POO!! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[jbcohen]

To summarize, I think that people do not like goodkind's strong anti-communist bent to his writting. To tell you the truth I can understand what they are talking about. He also appears to repeat the same forumulaic storylines with each novel. To tell you the truth I can understand what they are talking about. Beyond the Wizards First Rule, if you have read one goodkind you have read them all. What he really need is a fresh storyline. As for me, he is one of the best writters, even if he can't seem to come up with a fresh story line, that I have ever read. This is what keeps me coming back to his writting time and time again.

[Crysania]

Don't put words in the mouths of Goodkin's detractors. I know you weren't really doing that, but...it's easy to say, Oh I think people don't like him because of his 'communist bent', but they can't take away from his writing. Well, I can and I will.

I hate the guy specifically because I think the writing, itself, is poor.

Ridiculous & surface dialogue, stitled one-dimensional characters and predictable plotlines. My opinion. There is absolutely no emotional depth in the characters at all in my opinion and I tend to go for character-driven fantasy.

Anyhoo....

[JohnH]

Well I certainly don't remember anything about anti-communism in what I read of Goodkind. Though how utterly appropriate for Goodkind to take such a controversial and well-thought-out stand on such a matter. And so ahead of his time, too. I'll bet his next book will incorporate a diatribe against drunk driving, disguised of course in Goodkind's never ending saga of lust indulged in with happy-ever-after-love just a post-coital haze induced dream for our two little love birds.

I can just see it now. Poor Kahlan runs to Richard to finally achieve an emotional level of trust and love with Richard to match their ability to jump one another's bones in all throbbing bare-breated glory. When out of nowhere a drunken ox-cart driver runs the woman down. Ahh the tragedy. Poor Kahlen crippled for life. Even poorer Richard for all the many ways he could not save her but still wallows in the self-recrimination as if he could. Oh the horror! Oh the mortifying humanity of it all. Oh the .. Richard finds the impossible egg, breaks it on Kahlan's head and she is healed. And forgives the ox-cart driver. Even going so far as to go find him a donkey when the ox dies. Drunken Ox cart driving becomes a thing of the past even as the even emperor gnashes his teeth in anger at being thwarted once again in his quest to subjugate free people and pedestrians who fail to look both ways.

If I had kept reading I am sure I could have incorporated the infamous killer chicken, but as I am still a bit boggled by the whole concept I will let that go. Besides some things just don't need parodied. There are a parody in and of themselves.