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Fuck you for liking that terrible series

>>1990957

Hey, Fuck you for probably dropping the series after book Six thwarted every ideology you ever thought you knew shit about.

Usually people who hate the books are people who tend to be the people depicted (at the philosophical level) as the enemies/bad guys in the books.

Just because your ideology is shit and the book basically exposed that does not mean the series is terrible.

And before you even start saying "hack this" or some other shit, start telling the truth first. You know for a fact the books are written with a great deal of description, detail, and great characters.

....except Jensen. Jensen sucks balls.

>>1990971
nope they're real bad books. also i disagree with the ideology and they display that ideology in a cartoonishly stupid way, but the fundamental problem is that they suck

but whatever, keep defending slaughtering unarmed peace protestors

and evil chickens

viral marketing

>>1990978
>keep defending slaughtering unarmed peace protestors

OOOOOOH you're on of those idiots.

Lets put the situation into modern context so someone like you can understand.

Scenario: Terrorists are inside a building. If your team does not go in there and stop them, they will explode a device that kills millions of people.

Outside the building is a bunch of anti-war protestors. They are trying to keep you (forcefully) from harming the terrorists because they don't think they have a right to. At this moment, they are technically aiding and abetting a terrorist group. You have a moral obligation to mow them down to get to the terrorists inside the building. It's not pretty, but it's the only way to keep millions more from dying.

Same thing happened pretty much when the Order troops were slaughtering and raping everyone, and the villagers tried to forcefully stop Richard from stopping the bad guys from raping/killing.

Unless you interpreted the events in some other way. Richard did not kill unarmed peace protestors. He cut down people who were in the way of him stopping rapers and killers.

>>1990979

I'm not viraling :/ I'm just up damn late and the FB for TG popped up with this sale. Wanted to let other /lit/fags knows in case they were fans and wanted a shirt (like I did).

This isn't /v/

>>1990990
but it's pretty clear that he wasn't real broke up about it

it's not like they're presented with any sympathy, or as though killing them was a bad thing. it kind of glories in slaughtering them in a pretty fucked up way!

but, again, the books are bad in whole and in part

>>1990993
/lit/ hates Terry Goodkind

Have you ever been on /lit/ before

>>1990979
>thinks corporations are competitively vying for the eight person demographic of /lit/

>but it's pretty clear that he wasn't real broke up about it
>it's not like they're presented with any sympathy, or as though killing them was a bad thing. it kind of glories in slaughtering them in a pretty fucked up way!

Why would he be? The people he killed were absolute monsters and deplorable. They saw the suffering of their own villagers (some even having to watch as their own daughters and wives were being raped or torn apart for fun by the Order) And instead of having TRUE respect of ethical life, they turned a blind eye and allowed it to keep happening. Never once Standing up for themselves.

Even WORSE, they instead tried to stand up to Richard, the man who tried to save their families. Blocking him from killing the members of the order. Richard wanted to save them. The "protestors" were decrying him as a villain for trying to stop the Order's Soldier's "fun".

They deserved no sympathy. They were truly the worst kind of people, even worse than the Order themselves.

>>1990995

Not too often. But I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. People either love, or hate Goodkinds work. There is no in between.

I can only assume their rampant hated is caused by the books actually proving them wrong on many points, so instead of accepting Truth, they are making up their own little fantasy world where they all call the book "bad" as to try and dismiss it's merits.

Not saying the series is perfect. Book 7 especially. Kinda sucks when the sociopathic villain is more interesting than a god damn bitch and her goat.

The television show wasn't too bad if you wanted decent, generic, well produced fantasy. I haven't read the books, but consensus is that they are shitty.

Also, the author is so fucking full of himself.
http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20030805003/tscript.htm
>First of all, I don't write fantasy.

No, you write fantasy.

Fuck, the guy didn't start writing professionally until he was like 45 years old. How can anyone take this guy seriously?

inb4 op tries to discredit me by calling me a tripfag and pointing out how horrible Brian Herbert is

Op here, gonna adopt a trip.

>The television show wasn't too bad if you wanted decent, generic, well produced fantasy. I haven't read the books, but consensus is that they are shitty.

As a fan of the books, the first Season of the show was like watching "Nail on a Chalkboard:The Show". It got better in the second half, and season 2 was getting really good actually. But then it got canned because it was on too many networks and lost ratings to the olympics.

The books are infinitely better. But they always are. That being said, the show is still fun. But I knew Sam Raimi wasn't the director I wanted to see in charge of it. He's too "campy" for Sword of Truth.

>No, you write fantasy.

Actually, you really should read the books. "Fantasy" is just a backdrop and setting. The people and philosophy of his writing is the centerpoint. Fantasy is just there as a tool to move the plot along. I personally enjoyed the lack of fantasy style races (no elves, no dwarves, ect). It really is just a story about people. How they can be the best, and worst thing in the world. Kinda showed we don't need fantasy to have either of those.

The only viral marketing on /lit/ is done by Tao Lin.

>>1991019

>>1991090

You should just be glad I didn't make a Rand thread. I at least know what a "troll post" is on /lit/, if just that.

>>1991103
There is a problem of knowing things on sight alone, eventually we will all need glasses

>>1991090
Yeah, I noticed.

>>1991033
It is still fantasy. I'm not trying to discredit him because he writes fantasy, I have the utmost respect for speculative fiction. One of my favorite short stories is Grail by Harlan Ellison. It is about a man who, with the help of a demon, searches for the physical manifestation of true love. It is a story of the human condition and has very few traits of fantasy. Guess what? It is still fantasy (magical realism if you want to get all specific).


>>1991103
I honestly misconstrued this as a troll thread.

Let me ask you something, OP: what are some of your favorite authors/books/stories?

The original series went downhill very quickly after the 3rd book, which was really dissapointing considering how good the first 2 were.

Anyone actually know if the Omen Machine is any good, or just more shovelware?

Without reading it, I can already tell you Richard and Kahlan get split up a few chapter in and spend the next 53 chapter getting back together.

>>1991124
>Let me ask you something, OP: what are some of your favorite authors/books/stories?

To be honest, I am a pretty big fantasy/sci fan. Not to say I don't read anything else (I'll read just about anything). And I don't just count book writers.

Favorite current authors: Dan Abnett, Geoff Johns, Gav Thorpe, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Neil Gaiman, Brian Holguin, Robert Kirkman, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Heckman (don't laugh please, I loved them as a kid when I read Dragonlance), and many others.

Favorite Books: Maniac McGee, Lord of the Barnyard, Ravenor, Faith of the Fallen, Wizards First Rule, The Fountainhead (a Rand title, but one of her less "hit you over the head" ones), Mankind: Have a Nice Day (believe it or not, Mick Foley is actually a good writer.), and hell, I read so many books. I like a good deal more, but getting tired atm.

It's very rare you can find me something I won't at least try.

>>1991149

Not out yet. August 16'th.

>>1991153
>>1991153
You clearly haven't spent very much time on /lit/.

>>1991153
>Favorite current authors
>Gav Thorpe