From jsn@concentric.net Mon Apr 30 12:06:29 2001 Date: 21 Apr 2001 05:36:34 GMT From: "John S. Novak, III" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN David Eddings & Robert Jordan On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:43:42 -0700, Joel Watson wrote: >> >I've heard that Terry Goodkind is a good writer >> BWAAHAHAAHAHAAHA! >That bad, eh? Well, let's try to keep the insulting to a minimum (just >in case there are any Goodkind fans reading) and keep it to constructive >criticism. Liking Goodkind is a lifestyle choice that I am completely happy with mocking, deriding, and if at all possible, horsewhipping through the public square. >Why do you think Goodkind's books aren't that good? He is as unsubtle as a two-by-four enema; his constructed world is hokey and ad hoc, with no other depth or purpose to it than to put the right things in the path of the bumbling heros; calling his characters two dimensional is an insult to all the isosceles triangles of Flatland; and his characters are stupid enough to take seriously someone who proposes banning fire. -- John S. Novak, III jsn@concentric.net The Humblest Man on the Net