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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 2647028" data-attributes="member: 8849">I was never one to really complain about Goodkind's use of sex, but whatever. Usually, I complained about his amateurish writing, his obvious Jordan ripoffs, his lame plots, and his overly poor worldbuilding.Wizard's First Rule wasn't bad, in fact, it had some good parts, but Goodkind is too much of a fan of deus ex-machina endings, where things happen just because he says they should with no prior. It wasn't so bad in WFR since the book had some cool ideas, but the later books just got worse and worse.Stone of Tears copied Jordan so much I'm surprised he got it published. Collars for male magic users? Dark Sisters? A group of female spellcasters? Magic using men who become uncontrollable? The Keeper of the Underworld? Please. One of these things wouldn't be bad, wo wouldn't get picked up on my radar, but all of them? Might as well put Robert Jordan's name on the cover too. Even the name of the book is stolen from Jordan. Despite all this, the book was passable.Blood of the Fold. Better than SoT, I thought. I liked the demonic mwriswrith (sp?). They were kinda cool.Temple of the Winds. Ugh. Bad. The book could be cut in half if you cut out 90% of the text about Richard being perfect or Kahlan being in love with Richard. The rest of it was boring.Stone of Fire (??). The last book I read. This is the one that featured the evil chicken and it's when Goodkind began to get preachy. Surprisingly, my favorite part of the book had nothing to do with Richard or Kahlan.</blockquote>

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