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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2649423" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well then, I obviously wrote my initial posts badly. I do in fact have friends that like the books. I don't dislike them. I dislike rabid fanboys of the books, but I dislike rabid fanboys of just about anything, including things that I actually like myself.So I apologize for my initial posts, which gave you the wrong impression. Did I say "this is my critical opinion, which is undeniable fact"?Easily. Either a) I was wrong, or b) the professor was wrong, or c) it was somewhere in the murky gray area, but the professor was the one teaching the class. Most of the time, it was (a).I'm not saying there's no murky gray area. I am a strong believer of the murky gray area. However, a murky gray area does not preclude areas of clear black and clear white. And having 1 dumb guy say "Wait, that's not black, that's white!" isn't enough to convince me that something I'd thought was black was instead in the murky gray area. (Note: You are not the dumb guy. The dumb guy is the hypothetical. Nobody on this thread is the dumb guy. That is me extending the hypothetical to say that there is a difference, in my mind, between a legitimate difference of critical opinion and someone stating that there's no such thing as a fact, and so therefore it's automatically murky gray instead of black and white.)I could be convinced that some of the things I believed about Goodkind's first book were murkier than I had believed them to be. I could even be convinced that I was wrong, given that I only read the book once, and that it was several years ago. But I'm not going to be convinced unless somebody digs in and actually provides literary criticism to support their argument.And as you pointed out, you're not in school anymore, and neither am I, and at the end of the day, I'm still not gonna like the book. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, I did intend the "People who liked it may also like..." line in a non-negative way, and I apologize if that didn't come through. I can understand how it might not, given that I had expressed a negative opinion of the book earlier.</blockquote>

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