Terry goodkind sword of truth ful series

TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH FUL SERIES SERIES

Mind you, I do agree with your sentiment about violence. in the Saga of the Volsungs, there is little elaboration on Sigmund's 'sex scene' in which he unwittingly sleeps with his sister, but considerable elaboration to the nature of Volsung's murder as it establishes that he has no fear of death).

Sex scene are relatively without elaboration in these stories, even in sexually permissive societies like Dark Age Scandinavia (i.e. Violence, for your Iron Age, Dark Age and Medieval civilizations, was glorified because of its seeming necessity (not to mention the notion of divine judgment often associated with combat in Christian Europe at that time). the Volsung saga, the Odyssey, the Iliad, the Celtic cycles, Morte de Arthur, etc.) placed a heavy emphasis on violence, predominately because the nature of life at that time made martial skills very important. To an extent, violence is inherent to fantasy, simply because the works that formed the basis for fantasy (i.e. Some of my other issues where with objectivism itself, hence the comment about Rand, but since Booktalk isn't a place for ethical/moral debate I'll let that one slip away. It further raises the questions of a writer's ability when they venture repeatedly into sexual scenes that fail to further the plot line while not writing adult novels. Going into details of such as bestiality primarily serves to raise questions about the author's state of mind and provide a sort of secret, taboo pleasure for some of the readers and honestly, if you want that stuff, they have actual genres that deal explicitly with such material. There is no need to go in details when a such details do not further the plot line (which they almost never do). No hero I've ever read assaults an unarmed 8 year old girl and retains the mantle of 'hero'.ДЄs for bestiality and 'rape fantasy', there are more tact ways for getting it across. The closest I've seen a bonafide hero do was Cu Chulain when he killed his own son, but even then they faced each other as warriors and there is a 'heroic' reconciling as Connla dies. An anti-hero or villain grievously harms children when there is no such utility in the action (and I'd say harming a child for the sake of utility 9 of 10 times isn't heroic). It's part of being the hero, a certain degree of decency. I do however hold a 'Hero' to a higher moral standard then your average human. I hold no illusions about the human race. Goodkind could just label his character an anti-hero. Not to mention it doesn't really seem like an action Rand would endorse as it's isn't the byproduct of rational behavior theory, but merely an outburst of emotion that doesn't even qualify as Nietzschean freedom.Д®very time stuff like the SoT get published, I swear a real ethicist out there dies. Somehow doesn't seem very heroic, more like uncontrolled and psychopathic. Mind you I haven't read a book from the fantasy genre in over seven years so maybe the books now are nothing but senseless violence and perverse S/M, rape fantasy, or bestiality stuff.ДЄnyhow, regardless of how much anything could degenerate, I have a hard time stomaching a main character who isn't suppose to be an anti-hero using such violence against an eight year old child, regardless of how wicked of a child she is. Nambles? Really? Are we honest to God serious here? I never knew such levels of depravity existed in 'main stream' fantasy (as if there is such thing as that). Martin will realize this and not drag 'Song of Fire and Ice' forever also.Д¬lick to expand.Wow, simply and utterly, wow. I think there is a reason that most epic fantasy writers stick to trilogies.

Overall I enjoyed the series, but the one thing I think we are all learning about the massive epic fantasies is that they really seem to lose steam. Lastly, I also couldn't help feeling that Goodkind wrapped everything up because he knew that Robert Jordan was dying (and is now dead) and he didn't want his legacy to go unfinished. While not being a deeply religious man, I do take offense to the opinion that somehow religious people are not 'creative', don't believe in 'freedom', etc. Ron Hubbard of 'Invasion Earth' and actually name the world Richard created 'Earth', even though IMO he seemed to do a hell of a job implying it. I was praying at the end of the book that he wasn't going to pull an L. Then to have Richard understand everything about Orden and have it turn out to be nothing like Goodkind spent the previous ten books writing about bothered me.Дў. To have Shota be the 'mother' character who was guiding all of the minor characters and then defeat 'Six' was disappointing to me. A large part of 'Confessor' kept me on the edge of my couch, but then the ending was a letdown.

TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH FUL SERIES SERIES

I just finished the final book of the series and felt the need to post about it.ДЎ.

Terry goodkind sword of truth ful series