Sword of truth

[RecklessEnthusiasm]

Is Song of Ice and Fire at book five now? I am just finishing book four now--I normally wait to read series books until the last one is out. I hate waiting and now I'm going to be waiting five years to hear the conclusion! I didn't pick up The Dark Tower until the last one was out for this reason. <grumble grumble>

[Diamond]

I wouldn't mind doing a map based on a book; though we've had contests like that before, I'm always up for another one... But I can't see doing one based on Goodkind's 'novels'.

I'd rather drown in a puddle...

That's pretty much the way I feel about Goodkind. The guy is a misogynistic hack.

I didn't pick up The Dark Tower until the last one was out for this reason. <grumble grumble>

Are you sorry you read past 'Wizard and Glass'? I know I am...

[Ramah]

That's pretty much the way I feel about Goodkind. The guy is a misogynistic hack.

That's pretty much what I had heard, and what 99% of online reviewers thinks about him. I was beginning to doubt my own memory though due to the disproportionate amount of fans in this thread.

[RecklessEnthusiasm]

I too voted no as I've not read any of his work, and agree that it is probably best to have a more open/flexible challenge to draw more people in. Heck, even this month's lite challenge, which is pretty open, has turned me off, simply because I've never done a city-scale map before.

Sorry, this IS getting off topic, but...

Jaxilon - I ended up trying the first of the Wind On Fire series. I read a few chapters and just couldn't get into it. I know you recommended them really highly, so I ask your advice: do I just need to push through for another chapter or two, or what?

[RecklessEnthusiasm]

Are you sorry you read past 'Wizard and Glass'? I know I am...

Hah, I know what you mean, but I am glad I finished it. I thought the 'ending' was more appropriate and satisfying than most people seem to, but you're right that the last three books dropped remarkably in quality and became painfully self-indulgent. I won't mention any details for fear of spoilers but for goodness sakes, get over yourself, King.

[Gamerprinter]

It was supposed to be released for September, but I haven't checked if that's true or not.

GP

[geamon]

A Dance With Dragons still hasn't been released yet unfortunately. I think Raymond E Feist takes the cake with number of books published. Don't know if the page count is greater then Goodkind. Took me two tries from start to finish to actually get through Goodkind's novels, always lost interest 75% of the way through. I voted no just for the sake of challenges need to be open in their subject to prevent alienating people from it. It's supposed to invite people to participate not push them away.

[Ramah]

Isn't Terry Goodkind soundly kicked by most people in the blogosphere? I seem to recall reading a very long thread on the Westeros forums that made daily fun of his characters and made me cringe.

I've never read any of the books though and I understand they are very popular but I fear they're not for me. So I'd say no to this.

[geamon]

No his characters and story are fine and interesting. But revisiting the same themes each novel and having this ascension of power that get larger with each novel and the main character unable to use them is kinda ehhh.

[Djekspek]

read them, liked them, but didn't love them. But thanks for posting as it pointed me to the TV-series they made of it, and maybe I'm gonne love watching them... Making a better map then the standard boring map of that world he put in the novels... Hey, why not? cheers!