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Brandon Sanderson / Re: I want info about Goodkind/Brandon's comments
« on: January 02, 2008, 10:49:24 PM »
@phaz
LOL i'm now about 1/3 of the way through the book, so brain dead and wanting to know what happens I skipped ahead to find out the final fate of Kahlan LOL.
Some of Goodkinds examples and such are so ludicris that its hard to digest... um "ban fire" WTF was he smoking? It doesnt even make a good compelling argument you know. Richards bro standing up there... "All fire will be banned because a house burned, and its the debil" um yeah ok, darn near lost me on that note.
Anyway you cannot compare Goodkind with Authors of the magnitude of Jordan and presumably Brandon (havent read ya yet sorry but I will I promise, even my son knowing you will write book 12 of WOT wants to see what you have :-) )...
As noted above, Goodkind is good at describing war and rape, but he fails to write with the intimate intricate nuances of a master writer. Jordan can write war, and intimacies, and rape if he likes, and he did... BUTTTTTT it was written in a way so smooth that anyone could read it and get vivid images that let you decide how far to go. Dumai's well for instance. If Goodkind had written that, it would have been a detailed vision of the visceral nature of the injuries including in depth discussion of a piece of bone stuck to the tree off yonder. I find myself joyful that Confessor is the last book in the SOT series and that I will never have cause to pick up another Goodkind book. If I had not fallen in love with Kahlan and Richard, i'd not have made it this far.
LOL i'm now about 1/3 of the way through the book, so brain dead and wanting to know what happens I skipped ahead to find out the final fate of Kahlan LOL.
Some of Goodkinds examples and such are so ludicris that its hard to digest... um "ban fire" WTF was he smoking? It doesnt even make a good compelling argument you know. Richards bro standing up there... "All fire will be banned because a house burned, and its the debil" um yeah ok, darn near lost me on that note.
Anyway you cannot compare Goodkind with Authors of the magnitude of Jordan and presumably Brandon (havent read ya yet sorry but I will I promise, even my son knowing you will write book 12 of WOT wants to see what you have :-) )...
As noted above, Goodkind is good at describing war and rape, but he fails to write with the intimate intricate nuances of a master writer. Jordan can write war, and intimacies, and rape if he likes, and he did... BUTTTTTT it was written in a way so smooth that anyone could read it and get vivid images that let you decide how far to go. Dumai's well for instance. If Goodkind had written that, it would have been a detailed vision of the visceral nature of the injuries including in depth discussion of a piece of bone stuck to the tree off yonder. I find myself joyful that Confessor is the last book in the SOT series and that I will never have cause to pick up another Goodkind book. If I had not fallen in love with Kahlan and Richard, i'd not have made it this far.