It is impossible to put into few words just how amazing of a man, a husband, a writer, a friend, and a human, Terry Goodkind truly was. "This morning, Thursday, September 17th, we lost Terry Goodkind," the statement reads. While a cause of death has not yet been revealed, a post on Goodkind's official Facebook page revealed that the author died on Thursday. Best known for penning The Sword of Truth fantasy novel series, which have collectively sold over 25 million books worldwide, Goodkind was one of today's most beloved writers. But if I could be a one for a day, I'd probably be Richard the ridiculous magic level would be fun to play with.It's been a very rough week in the literary world and the bad news continues with word that veteran author Terry Goodkind has passed away. I think my favorite character was either Nathan or Shota. You had to slog through a lot of muck to get there, and for most people I know it just wasn't worth the effort - after all, why waste your time for the payoff when books like "Lies of Locke Lamora," Berg's "Transformation," "The Atrocity Archives," Powers's "Last Call," "Name of the Wind," "The Blade Itself," Niven & Pournelle's "Inferno" and Sanderson's "Mistborn" and "Elantris" are out there waiting to give you more awesome-stuff-per-page? The books were still fun, because they built up to huge awesome climactic scenes at the end. (Or that Jagang, the archnemisis, somehow magically manages to feed and clothe and house and deal with a huge army, the logistics of which still make me shake my head.) Setting aside the observation that Richard is less a neat character and more a bundle of I-can-do-anything. It's unbelieveable and it hurts the story. It would be like Frodo discovering halfway through that the Ring doesn't just turn him invisible, it also lets him shapeshift and conjure snow around him and speak to butterflies - and he finds out right when he needs to shapeshift and hide himself in snow and learn of the evil plan by talking to an insect. That's not only a deus ex machina (contrived coincidence or situation), it's an asspull (where you cannot actually believe it at all). In one book, he is poisoned, and uses magic to identify the antidote at the last minute. The magic system was arbitrary and designed for Coolness as its main factor - so never mind how rare this kind of magic is, Richard gets it anyway. There wasn't a map and travel time was inconsistent.
TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH ENGINE MOVIE
By the second, the edges were fraying, like a historical fiction movie where you suddenly realize the main character is wearing tennis shoes and the sidekick has a wristwatch and a battery-powered calculator. I mean, it worked okay for the first book. The world could never convince me that it was real. Of course, by that time I had also started to focus on character power balance in my own writing, and the fact that Richard was a raging Mary Sue bothered me. It doesn't impress everyone by any means, and readers are apparently pretty divided on the topic.īy the eighth or ninth book I realized there was about a hundred pages of plot and five hundred pages of filler, which lowered my opinion of it a great deal.
TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH ENGINE SERIES
I've read the entire series and thought it was okay.
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