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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5072722" data-attributes="member: 41321">If you're talking about the Sword of Truth books being similar to Wheel of Time, it wasn't the grand plots that were similar, it was all the little details (or a whole bunch of little details).  I've read plenty of fantasy novels to understand how similar they all are, but one of the things I love are the little details that make the world different.  This world is a disk on the back of a turtle.  In that world there's a huge wall made of ice on one edge.  In another world the power of a male magic-user is forbidden and apt to drive him mad.  One thing in common between SoT and WoT wouldn't be bad.  But there were just too many, at least in the early books.  SoT had its own unique things (women who know when people are lying and can make anyone fall insanely in love with them, lizard-like people who wear invisible cloaks and wield three-pronged daggers) but it really felt like Terry Goodkind was reading the WoT books when he was writing and taking notes about things he thought were cool.</blockquote>