I’ve also noticed you don’t seem to like Terry Goodkind all that much from some of your twitter posts, as he’s another favorite author of mine, I’m curious where that stems from?
Don’t take it too seriously. Mostly, my aversion to Goodkind stems from two places. First, WoT fandom and SoT fandom on-line have had kind of a ‘rival teams’ type of thing going on. Much of it comes from this. It’s like picking the Yankees or the Mets. (And there’s nothing wrong with liking both. My editor goes to both teams, and Tor publishes both WoT and SoT.)
So, it’s kind of a root for the home team (for me, the WoT) and not the rival. On the other side, Terry has been notoriously bad to work with in the publishing industry and has said some very divisive things to both other writers, and to fans. He kind of comes off as a jerk. (Then again, Orson Scott Card has had the same complaints leveled against him, and I enjoy his work.)
So, again, don’t read too much into it. Wizard’s First Rule was actually a very solid book, and though I didn’t get into the second, I can see why people enjoy reading him.
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