[normalphil]

Originally posted by Wendigo:
\Terry Goodkind is a Robert Jordan hack, and that sado-masochist fetish he has doesn't attract me much.

Um... What sado-masochist fetish? (heh heh) You're not fantasizing about Mord-Sith between chapters now, are you?

I've got a strange thing with Goodkind's Sword of Truth. It keeps dropping off my 'Good Fantasy' list between books, and it keeps rocketting back up it every time I read a new one. I guess the conclusion is while the weight of opinion wears me down, the product will speak for itself. Just finished 'Naked Empire', and am still thinking 'Cool. That man knows how to turn a phrase into a meaning.'

Or you could just ignore all the white noise and bear in mind that nowhere in the words 'Sword of Truth' are the words 'Wheel of Time', and sit down and enjoy the book without trying to create new analogies.