[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry. I know, you know, don't harsh the squee, or whatever, but they are fucking terrible books even if you set aside the didacticism and the terrible ideology. Just a morass of poor writing and completely clumsy, terrible edginess. I mean, if any fantasy books whatsoever are bad, these are bad.

[ketita]

Do you remember the chicken that was not a chicken.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - "the chicken that was not a chicken" - What was it?

beauty and majesty

[ketita]

Hissing, hackles lifting, the chicken's head rose.

Kahlan pulled back.

Its claws digging into stiff dead flesh, the chicken slowly turned to face her. It cocked its head, making its comb flop, its wattles sway.

"Shoo," Kahlan heard herself whisper.

There wasn't enough light, and besides, the side of its beak was covered with gore, so she couldn't tell if it had the dark spot. But she didn't need to see it.

"Dear spirits, help me," she prayed under her breath.

The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.

This was evil manifest.

Re: beauty and majesty

[sarillia]

This never gets old. :D

Re: beauty and majesty

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, thank you! :D

[(Anonymous)]

The first three are okay, fairly standard fantasy runarounds with the politics more the standard brave rebel vs evil emperor. It is after that it takes a right swerve into Rand-Thiel land and it goes deeply wrong in virtually every single way.

[(Anonymous)]

It swerves deep into Randian politics, and also into really bad writing.

And the first three aren't, like, good. They're mediocre and rather formulaic, with some striking ideas and characters.

[(Anonymous)]

randian politics/bad writing same-same

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it is quite the same. And equating the two leaves the door open for people to say they're actually wonderful books and we're just too PC or something. They would be bad even if I agrees with the ideology.

[(Anonymous)]

The first one wasn't bad, but overall I agree. Even if I were completely sympathetic to the philosophy, Goodkind is so heavy handed about it that it drags down the plot. Sometimes it's hard to tell what the plot actually is, because the writing is so clumsy and sophomoric. The only parts that don't completely suck are the basic fantasy tropes, and many authors use them to better effect, so...