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<blockquote data-quote="Pale" data-source="post: 11379" data-attributes="member: 120">Wheel of Time started years before The Sword of Truth series, maybe you just discovered them at the same time.Anyway, I'd say at least go and get the &quot;Wizard's First Rule&quot; softcover and read through it, give the series a chance be reading the first book. I did, and I couldn't get enough of Goodkind. I find the 'parralel' to Jordan laughable! I couldn't get through the first 5 chapters of the first Wheel of time book. Jordan's pacing is pedantic and full of unneccessary details. I read Wizard's First Rule straight through only stopping to eat and sleep. It hooked me completely by the second chapter.I also found that none of the sex was gratuitous, it all seemed integral to the plot-line. Or maybe you consider any sex gratuitous? Read a Harlequin romance novel if you want to know what gratuitous sex really is.As for the S&amp;M....heh. I wouldn't call it that, you see, S&amp;M IIRC stands for Sadism and Masochism. The only thing found in the first book was TORTURE. The amount of torture that it would take to break a man's will. In fact, everything that happened to Richard while he was with the Mord Sith was to break his spirit.And characters figuring stuff out without having enough information? Are you sure? Because I don't recall any of that. Perhaps you just weren't picking up on the clues as a reader. Please site specific passages and page numbers to me, because I simple cannot recall any such incidence in any of the novels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pale, post: 11379, member: 120"] Wheel of Time started years before The Sword of Truth series, maybe you just discovered them at the same time. Anyway, I'd say at least go and get the "Wizard's First Rule" softcover and read through it, give the series a chance be reading the first book. I did, and I couldn't get enough of Goodkind. I find the 'parralel' to Jordan laughable! I couldn't get through the first 5 chapters of the first Wheel of time book. Jordan's pacing is pedantic and full of unneccessary details. I read Wizard's First Rule straight through only stopping to eat and sleep. It hooked me completely by the second chapter. I also found that none of the sex was gratuitous, it all seemed integral to the plot-line. Or maybe you consider any sex gratuitous? Read a Harlequin romance novel if you want to know what gratuitous sex [i]really[/i] is. As for the S&M....heh. I wouldn't call it that, you see, S&M IIRC stands for Sadism and Masochism. The only thing found in the first book was TORTURE. The amount of torture that it would take to break a man's will. In fact, everything that happened to Richard while he was with the Mord Sith was to break his spirit. And characters figuring stuff out without having enough information? Are you sure? Because I don't recall any of that. Perhaps you just weren't picking up on the clues as a reader. Please site specific passages and page numbers to me, because I simple cannot recall any such incidence in any of the novels. [/QUOTE]

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