I agree with your comments on Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule.
I read this book 7 or 8 years ago. I too found the first half to be boring generifantasy (as opposed to interesting generifantasy like Brooks Shannara series).
Even after all this time, I still don't have an explanation for the second half of the book, other than to say that Goodkind has some very wierd and VERY unhealthy sexual hangups.
I think he did have some psycologically valid insight into abusive S&M, at least enough to make it seem pretty realistic (except for the magic part, of course). But I didn't really ever want to KNOW those things. And I can't 'unread' it now.
And the S&M even carried over to the 'good' guys (or girls, in this case) with the witches who could make a man fall so in love with her that he would loose all freewill and be her complete slave.
This is NOT what I expected or wanted from a fantasy novel.
I don't believe that I had even finished the book and I CERTAINLY did not want to read any more of the series!
Thu, 07/10/2008 - 10:03am
I agree with your comments on Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule.
I read this book 7 or 8 years ago. I too found the first half to be boring generifantasy (as opposed to interesting generifantasy like Brooks Shannara series).
Even after all this time, I still don't have an explanation for the second half of the book, other than to say that Goodkind has some very wierd and VERY unhealthy sexual hangups.
I think he did have some psycologically valid insight into abusive S&M, at least enough to make it seem pretty realistic (except for the magic part, of course). But I didn't really ever want to KNOW those things. And I can't 'unread' it now.
And the S&M even carried over to the 'good' guys (or girls, in this case) with the witches who could make a man fall so in love with her that he would loose all freewill and be her complete slave.
This is NOT what I expected or wanted from a fantasy novel.
I don't believe that I had even finished the book and I CERTAINLY did not want to read any more of the series!
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