![]() He really likes enumerating on the main character's philosophy and his books could be trimmed a bit. He introduces unlikeable characters, forces you to read about them the whole book, and then finally kills them off. He has a bad habit of leaving every narrative strand open until the last 100 pages of his 600-800 page books, and you can feel the momentum mounting towards the end, where Goodkind remembered that he had to finish the thing. maybe it's because I'm a Superman guy, not a Batman guy. I like Superman, he's a mensch and all around good guy. People would say he doesn't have flaws, but I don't really care. The situation is what challenges him, not his own flaws. ![]() Richard, the main character, is kind of in the same line. He does have a serious flaw - his inability to control or ever truly harness his own magic abilities, but he doesn't have any serious emotional trauma that effects his every decision. Goodkind speaks through him a bit much toward the end of the series, but within the world Goodkind created Richard's ideals work. ![]() The world of the series isn't made for playing with the concepts of morally grey.Ĭertainly his past isn't fun, but he always tries to do right. It explores a little, but that wasn't why I was there.
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