[caladanbrood]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jun 8 2009, 03:24 AM, said:

Goodkind is our God? You've got to be kidding me...:Surprise:

Good Lord, I hope it failed.

It was pretty funny for a while, especially when they lured in a real Tairyficon

[Mirthmonkey]

Sixty, on Jun 5 2009, 06:12 PM, said:

No. Goodkind is not as good as his success would suggest, but his writing is nowhere near atrocious enough to make you an asshole. Now, Twilight...

heh heh...
Actually I was referring more to Goodkind's well-known objectivist beliefs than to the quality of the writing. Well, that and I was ripping off a fake quote attributed to Ayn Rand on the back cover of America, the Daily Show book, about how much like reading her books, reading it would make you an asshole for at least a month.

Confession: I've actually read up through Naked Empire. That was a few years ago and I've just never been motivated to finish the series. About the time I heard the next book would feature yet another woman somehow getting Richard in her power and kidnapping him, that was the last, last straw. I was already really sick of plot lines that frequently went like this:
Richard and Kahlan defy the odds to overcome some grave threat by the end of a book.
Next book - Their solution to the previous grave threat has now caused the latest grave threat, something we never heard a word about before.

This happened several times in a row, which was freaking absurd.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Assail, on Jun 6 2009, 01:10 AM, said:

Grimhilde, on Jun 5 2009, 01:18 PM, said:

omg, some of your posts made lol hard, Illy, RLY and Mappo...rep all around.


Now, I've recently registered with fanfiction.net and I noticed in the rules and guidelines that the Shearded Vulture does not want fan fics of his stuff to be posted publicly. Why is that, I wonder? Is he afraid that anyone, even a twelve-year old illiterate boy from Panama could write his characters better than him, as well as come up with a much better plot?

I'll agree to this. For some mysterious reason, and mind you I was told of this >.>, the mods will brook no individual posting a dissenting opinion of his work on his official website. I can understand trolls but from what I was told, of course, even polite, intelligent posts are deleted and the post is permanently banned. I like TG's work, but the man seems a tad insecure.

So you agree that even a twelve-year old illiterate boy from Panama could write his characters better than him, as well as come up with a much better plots?

[Grief]

Sigged


Can you see it assail. It's there. Mocking you.

[Assail]

Lmao I read this just before I boarded my plane but didn't have a chance to reply. Thanks for giving me a laugh for a while and taking what I said out of context you assholes I was referring to the whole being afraid of someone posting, not whether or not that someone could write better then him.

Assholes

Edit: Yes Grief, and I'll have you know you just made it to my hitlist for when I become a Machine Gunner in the Marine Corps Infantry. Yeah what now?

This post has been edited by Assail: 09 June 2009 - 02:30 AM

[Trull's son]

You know what else i found just terrible, after hearing so much good, is the thomas covenant series. I have read the entire SoT series, but i couldnt make it past the first installment of Covenant series

[Grief]

Assail, on Jun 9 2009, 01:53 AM, said:

Lmao I read this just before I boarded my plane but didn't have a chance to reply. Thanks for giving me a laugh for a while and taking what I said out of context you assholes I was referring to the whole being afraid of someone posting, not whether or not that someone could write better then him.

Assholes

Edit: Yes Grief, and I'll have you know you just made it to my hitlist for when I become a Machine Gunner in the Marine Corps Infantry. Yeah what now?

I don't know what now.

Sit back and laugh as you futilely shoot your computer in an attempt to kill an online account most likely

[Illuyankas]

"I'll threaten people over the internet with bodily harm! FOOLPROOF!"

[Assail]

Illuyankas, on Jun 9 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

"I'll threaten people over the internet with bodily harm! FOOLPROOF!"

I'll be the first to carry my threats through.

Lol, just wait Grief, I will find you and kick down your door Arnie style with a bloody gatling gun.

Wait, where do you live again?

[Trull's son]

I can tell Assail has been greatly influenced by Terry...

[Mentalist]

Assail, on Jun 9 2009, 09:24 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on Jun 9 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

"I'll threaten people over the internet with bodily harm! FOOLPROOF!"

I'll be the first to carry my threats through.

Lol, just wait Grief, I will find you and kick down your door Arnie style with a bloody gatling gun.

Wait, where do you live again?

Grief's from Scotland.

that's as much as I can narrow it down for you.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Grief, on Jun 8 2009, 05:42 PM, said:

Sigged


Can you see it assail. It's there. Mocking you.

Awesome!

[Mirthmonkey]

Trull's son, on Jun 8 2009, 10:22 PM, said:

You know what else i found just terrible, after hearing so much good, is the thomas covenant series. I have read the entire SoT series, but i couldnt make it past the first installment of Covenant series

Boooooooo! I love the Thomas Covenant books. Though I think the first book may well be the weakest one.

[Cougar]

Assail, on Jun 9 2009, 01:53 AM, said:

Edit: Yes Grief, and I'll have you know you just made it to my hitlist for when I become a Machine Gunner in the Marine Corps Infantry. Yeah what now?

Unless the US military has deteriorated yet further they definitely don't let you carry out internet vendettas on their time.

Grief, unless you are hiding in an allied APC I wouldn't worry about it too much, do watch out for chickens though, especially if they aren't chickens.

[Eddie Dean]

Trull's son, on Jun 9 2009, 09:19 PM, said:

I can tell Assail has been greatly influenced by Terry...

Watch out for rape...

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Trull's son, on Jun 8 2009, 07:22 PM, said:

You know what else i found just terrible, after hearing so much good, is the thomas covenant series. I have read the entire SoT series, but i couldnt make it past the first installment of Covenant series

If you don't like Donaldson, fair enough, but I will not stand by and let him be slandered by being discussed in the TG thread. He's not for everyone, but in no way imaginable does he deserve comparison to the Shearded One.

[Illuyankas]

Really, RLY, I think there's at least one similarity betweent the two authors.
A couple more might be present but I'm really not familiar enough with either series to comment.
Perhaps you could go through the Covenant books and point out the differences?
Especially the scene in the first book that puts so many people off the series.

[Grief]

Please don't de-rail the bashing into a discussion.

-Grief

[MTS]

Hear hear! More Goodkind bashing! Although I do agree with Illy - Donaldson may almost go so far as to have sex with his thesaurus, he is definitely not on a par with Goodkind. Twilight and the Axis trilogy, that's a different story - rare is the book that has characterisation that is even worse than Goodkind's.

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 10 June 2009 - 09:09 PM

[Assail]

Cougar, on Jun 10 2009, 12:39 PM, said:

Assail, on Jun 9 2009, 01:53 AM, said:

Edit: Yes Grief, and I'll have you know you just made it to my hitlist for when I become a Machine Gunner in the Marine Corps Infantry. Yeah what now?

Unless the US military has deteriorated yet further they definitely don't let you carry out internet vendettas on their time.

Grief, unless you are hiding in an allied APC I wouldn't worry about it too much, do watch out for chickens though, especially if they aren't chickens.

Deteriorated yet further? Are you one of those uninformed Brits who likes to think of the US military as baby killers as well?