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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1494647" data-attributes="member: 2205">OK, I'm about 1/3? 1/2? way through Wizard's First Rule and I'm really asking myself if I'm wasting my time.  The characters aren't particularly interesting, the dialogue is flat and boring, the motivations and set-up are poorly contrived and poorly demonstrated, the plot is weak, thin and cliche, the villains are ridiculously over-the-top and Goodkind isn't particularly talented.  He telegraphs badly what's going to happen, even to me, and I'm a more "disengage your mind and read almost subconsciously" kind of guy rather than one who's trying to unravel the mystery as the book unfolds.I've had a few folks tell me the book improves in the later half, though.  I also had a similar experience with Perdido Street Station recently; about the first 200 pages of it were dreadfully tedious and the rest of the book was reasonably well-done.  So I'm a bit leery of cutting loose too soon and missing out on a book (or even a series, I suppose, if I really get into it) that may improve.  After all, the masses must know something, and there's no denying that Goodkind sells really well.  However, the only thing I'm finding that motivates me to read is the fact that this confirms my wild hope that any Joe Blow amateur author who has the determination to actually write a full book can get it published and be successful, regardless of talent.  I'm finding that reading this is giving me more inspiration to write than anything else.</blockquote>

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