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Heroic Knight
 
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| That's right folks, your eyes do not deceive you, one of the best Fantasy book series is going to make it's way to the small screen!! This has been on the cards for a couple of years but now has a confirmed release date of Autumn 2008. No casting has been released, but Sam Raimi is on board as Director and Executive Producer!
__________________________________________ Fame and Fortune - DT/Ref Faded Glory - Sgt Tellos, Warriors of Light Skullduggery - Mortimer, Master At Arms of House Fortuna Pass me another Elf, Sergeant. This one's split!! I Am More Than A Fish
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Overlord
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| IMHO that is very disappointing. Wizard's First Rule is a clone of the original work in Terry Brooks' Shannara series, which in turn is a poor man's Tolkien. Terry Goodkind manages to make you feel like your in a new version of Shannara. The story goes fairly well, then degenerates into a strange fifty or so pages of sado masochism. You emerge from this feel a little dirty and thinking that perhaps the author needed to get that out of his system and maybe it was just an unusual way of twisting the traditional fantasy narrative, but no, in the next book - Stone of Tears the same archetypal characters appear taking on strange sexually dominant female roles. By the end of that you know the author is being a self indulgent and slightly seedy about the whole thing. There are so much better books to adapt, although it will be interesting to see what they do with the S&M and Torture stuff. I bet it gets sanitised and cut out - which actually would be no bad thing at all. Goodkind comes across as very pretentious, a shame really, I hope he isn't in love with himself.
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Prodigal
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| Oh God, is that the one where the hero discovers he's a special wizard who's the only hope of his people and then ends up as a slave in this weird female dominated castle- his partner is one of the women from the S&M castle as well isn't she. I read the some and couldn't be bothered to carry on- did it get better? Oh well if they do an "Earthsea" on it, it'll probably be good (i.e use the name and some of the general details then ignore the rest)
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Andy Rimmer (2/27/2008)
Oh God, is that the one where the hero discovers he's a special wizard who's the only hope of his people and then ends up as a slave in this weird female dominated castle- his partner is one of the women from the S&M castle as well isn't she. I read the some and couldn't be bothered to carry on- did it get better?No the second book told pretty much the same story repeated. I think I finished the third one, but it was so fortgettable I can't remember...lol It made me think of blending the worst of Terry Brooks with David Eddings (who is the absolute LCD of fantasy writing).
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Wag
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Andy Rimmer (2/27/2008)
Oh God, is that the one where the hero discovers he's a special wizard who's the only hope of his people and then ends up as a slave in this weird female dominated castle- his partner is one of the women from the S&M castle as well isn't she. I read the some and couldn't be bothered to carry on- did it get better?
Define better. After about book three he mostly realizes that his target audience is probably not S&M devotees who presumably just buy their porn honestly from Amazon these days. So he searches out a new target audience which appear to be anyone with an overwhelming desire to be brainwashed about how evil communism is. And you have to really want to be brainwashed to keep reading.
From about book 5 onwards each 700 page novel goes roughly like this.
"Richard sat down and thought about how evil his monstrous enemy the godless Emperor Stalin-Jagang-Lenin was and how his evil empire of evilness was filling the word with evil. Oh if only he could make people see that the Land of the Free was America and that Anglo-Saxon based western lifestyle consumerist capitalism was the honest answer to all their problems. But to tell them this would simply be to impose his own views on that in some sort of crypto-Lenninst conspiracy. So he was doomed to wander the earth simply demonstrating how superior his Free American ways were so that people would be inspired to choose American lifestyle capitalism over their evil Communist New World Order simply by seeing how happy he was."
Rinse and repeat for 350 pages. Then:
"Richard noticed there was some plot. Waving his hand, he solved the plot with his infinite powers of infiniteness (which could only be wielded by someone sworn to the truth of the American capitalist system)"
Then with the plot dealt with it's on for another 350 pages of rant about how evil communism is and how they must all band together to stop Stalingang from taking over the world.
So to answer your original question, no they don't get better. They get worse. A lot worse. It's like Obi-wan Kenobi says in Star Wars "You can't win Dearth. If you let me keep writing, my books will become more worse than you can possibly imagine." No really. I've tried to make the above passages a parody but it doesn't work very well because it's just not as extreme as Terry Goodkind's terribly balanced endless polemic.
Why do I read 'em? Hey I saw Street Fighter at the cinema. Oscar the Grouch is my hero, I like trash!
History is an important source for LRP. Along with other works of fiction.
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Prodigal
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| Oscar the Grouch is the best Sesame Street character- the original crusty.(though the Count is pretty cool too).
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