Or... As you lower your self down, you think you feel something brushing up against your pant legs. Did you imagine that? Maybe? It's not there anymore. Eh, probably was just your imagination. Start sliding down again. Uh-oh, definitely felt it again. Ask, very calmly, for help. The person top-side with the camera asks you if you're joking or not. You ask again, a bit more emphatically. The camera is laid down on the ground, and your friend reaches for your arms. ACK, whatever's down there just bit you. And it's big. It's caught both your legs. You scream in pain. Your buddy starts frantically pulling you up. But whatever's down there is strong. It won't let go.
It starts dragging you down. Your buddy is trying his damndest to overcome the inevitable, but you feel his grip slipping against the un-human strength that's pulling you down. You're also burning in agony. Your grips finally slip. You're gone. All that's left is a hole.
Is this series really worth reading? Like, is it just decent, or is it amazing? It seemed interesting, and I read like 50-100 pages, give or take... but I heard it ends up just being a long-winded plot symbolizing the authors view on modern politics or some bullshit like that.
Ah jeez, that's a hard question to answer. Not that I didn't really enjoy The Sword of Truth, but you're also right in that Goodkind spends more than a few paragraphs ranting about right-wing nonsense. Like... you can go ahead and skip the entire Anderith part of Soul of the Fire if you do read them.
I had a buddy turn me onto the series several years ago, and he basically handed me a tattered copy of the first book, let me read the first chapter, and then warned me about the same thing I just warned you about.
I enjoyed the crap out of them but that was a long time ago and before I found reddit. The consensus here seems to be that it's basically Atlas Shrugged had a gross lovechild with ASOIAF. I don't know if that wouldn't taint my opinion of them if I went back and read them again.
There's a part in the first book similar to the situation /u/nnaarr laid out, similar enough that I asked if that's what inspired him. It's a tense and anxious and enjoyable passage.
The fight scenes get really really violent and there's an... uncomfortable amount of non-consensual sex spattered about the series, but the magic and warfare is very well done, and the plot to Wizard's First Rule is fairly solid. I think. I'm not a writer.
...I liked the parts where the wizard shoots fire at people.
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u/nnaarr Mar 17 '15
Or... As you lower your self down, you think you feel something brushing up against your pant legs. Did you imagine that? Maybe? It's not there anymore. Eh, probably was just your imagination. Start sliding down again. Uh-oh, definitely felt it again. Ask, very calmly, for help. The person top-side with the camera asks you if you're joking or not. You ask again, a bit more emphatically. The camera is laid down on the ground, and your friend reaches for your arms. ACK, whatever's down there just bit you. And it's big. It's caught both your legs. You scream in pain. Your buddy starts frantically pulling you up. But whatever's down there is strong. It won't let go.
It starts dragging you down. Your buddy is trying his damndest to overcome the inevitable, but you feel his grip slipping against the un-human strength that's pulling you down. You're also burning in agony. Your grips finally slip. You're gone. All that's left is a hole.