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An anti-hero or villain grievously harms children when there is no such utility in the action (and I'd say harming a child for the sake of utility 9 of 10 times isn't heroic). It's part of being the hero, a certain degree of decency. I do however hold a 'Hero' to a higher moral standard then your average human. I hold no illusions about the human race. Goodkind could just label his character an anti-hero. Not to mention it doesn't really seem like an action Rand would endorse as it's isn't the byproduct of rational behavior theory, but merely an outburst of emotion that doesn't even qualify as Nietzschean freedom.Įvery time stuff like the SoT get published, I swear a real ethicist out there dies. Somehow doesn't seem very heroic, more like uncontrolled and psychopathic. Mind you I haven't read a book from the fantasy genre in over seven years so maybe the books now are nothing but senseless violence and perverse S/M, rape fantasy, or bestiality stuff.Īnyhow, regardless of how much anything could degenerate, I have a hard time stomaching a main character who isn't suppose to be an anti-hero using such violence against an eight year old child, regardless of how wicked of a child she is. Nambles? Really? Are we honest to God serious here? I never knew such levels of depravity existed in 'main stream' fantasy (as if there is such thing as that). Martin will realize this and not drag 'Song of Fire and Ice' forever also.Ĭlick to expand.Wow, simply and utterly, wow. I think there is a reason that most epic fantasy writers stick to trilogies. Overall I enjoyed the series, but the one thing I think we are all learning about the massive epic fantasies is that they really seem to lose steam. Lastly, I also couldn't help feeling that Goodkind wrapped everything up because he knew that Robert Jordan was dying (and is now dead) and he didn't want his legacy to go unfinished. While not being a deeply religious man, I do take offense to the opinion that somehow religious people are not 'creative', don't believe in 'freedom', etc. Ron Hubbard of 'Invasion Earth' and actually name the world Richard created 'Earth', even though IMO he seemed to do a hell of a job implying it. I was praying at the end of the book that he wasn't going to pull an L. Then to have Richard understand everything about Orden and have it turn out to be nothing like Goodkind spent the previous ten books writing about bothered me.Ģ.

To have Shota be the 'mother' character who was guiding all of the minor characters and then defeat 'Six' was disappointing to me.

A large part of 'Confessor' kept me on the edge of my couch, but then the ending was a letdown. Official Terry Goodkind books website in Spain.I just finished the final book of the series and felt the need to post about it.ġ.' 'Spider-Man' director buys rights to Goodkind series', The Book Standard, July 24, 2006.- unofficial russian Terry Goodkind website.Unofficial Terry Goodkind website (endorsed by Terry Goodkind).Goodkind passed away on September 17, 2020. Goodkind is a proponent of Ayn Rand's philosophical approach of Objectivism, with references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works. It was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker it premiered on November 1, 2008, and ran for two seasons, ending in May 2010. The Sword of Truth series sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and was translated into more than twenty languages. He was known for the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines, which has ties to his fantasy series.

Terry Goodkind (Janu– September 17, 2020) was an American writer.

Terry goodkind sword of truth series official website