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Of course! The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. If it doesn't polerise it invites indifference, and I can't stand indifference.
I don't too much mind that the series is ending. It seems to me that Terry Goodkind must be running out of challenges to throw at Rahl. Richard can only be kidnapped so many times and collect so many pendents around his neck. He's suffered and overcome so much as to become so powerful now that there's nothing left in my imagination to provide the element of conflict anymore.
Also, I'm sick of his wife. Never liked her.
@Riggenbach:
There's nothing in any of his books that is really original. It's a combination of run-of-the-mill fantasy with Randian speeches placed in various characters' mouths.
Original? But there's nothing new under the sun, only new reactions to the same old things.
In Faith Of The Fallen the Atlas Shurgged subplot of Hank Reardon vs his family is retold in terms of a throughly industrious, productive and decent- but philosophically defenseless- armourer. This fable is pure Ayn Rand, but no message could have been any clearer than in Goodkind's telling. Reading this was a major wake-up to me in recognising the critical urgency of philosophical munitions.
It is not "imitation Rand", only a re-expression for another genra and another generation. Do you think the morals of Homer, Euripides, Dante, Shakespeare and Dickens are interpreted by a modern audience as they were in their own times? To bring the same pathos these days requires different literary machinery, and that is what makes books like Faith Of The Fallen legitimate and necessary.
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