The Wolf Maid Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 From today's LemmingWatch - an LJ post on how the SoT series should have ended... that wasn't one of you guys, was it? Min, I think this comes from one of the posters here, or at least the poster has browsed through the threads. Some of the bits seem...familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 That was an excellent rant in lj. Excellent. Top notch! Well thought out and hard to argue with. Unless you're M* or his brethern... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 From today's LemmingWatch - an LJ post on how the SoT series should have ended... that wasn't one of you guys, was it? There's actually a bona fide objectivist among the comments, who ends with this endearing footnote: (*) BTW, "Goodkind" seems like the wrong name for an Objectivist. It should be "Goodstrong" or "Goodlogic" or maybe "Goodbenevolent". "Kindness" is taken as a code word for *altruism* -- one of the primary evils of the world (per Objectivists). That's a pretty good thread title. "GOODKIND XXXII: wrong name for an Objectivist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I've just had some great fan-mail on my Stone of Tears review: Dude...The @$%@ Is the matter with you? Aside from what you deem as bad plot, and poor writeing. Terry Goodkind can write superbly. His choice of words, and the story he wrote. Deals with real life situations, A fantasy novel, one can relate to. Not done a whole lot. I vote you be drug into the street, shot, and castrated. For your rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I've just had some great fan-mail on my Stone of Tears review: Wow. Someone's going to be disappointed. On so many levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Now for the anti-Goodkind (Gene Wolfe), in a letter he wrote to an aspiring writer in the 1980s: There is a certain type of writer who sees his stories primarily as means for advancing his opinions, to which humanity is too sensible to listen when they are presented plain. When we read his works, we find the characters making speeches, and it is of those speeches (which the reader soon learns to skip) that he is most proud. You are not one of those writers. Who would have thought that Wolfe would have pegged Goodkind so well over 10 years before WFR's release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Maid Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I've just had some great fan-mail on my Stone of Tears review: Oh, Min, I could feel the love, on so many levels. That's a pretty good thread title. "GOODKIND XXXII: wrong name for an Objectivist". I second this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talyn Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I second this. Hang on we're not even half the way through the thread yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreverlad Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I don't know, based on this thread I was thinking Goodkind XXXII: It's Inside You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I don't know, based on this thread I was thinking Goodkind XXXII: It's Inside You From that thread: Our reason governs our choices, our choices govern our lives Of course, that ignores the Rule that states Passion Rules Reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I'll be damned (more?)...searching through that site, I see someone deleted that thread about me over a year after it was posted. I wonder who it was and if it was due to all the richness it provided us? Of course, I did have excerpts from it in a retort I made soon after reading it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 You know, DF, thinking back on it and looking through that old blog of yours, you gotta admit, M* and the anti-lemmings can occasionaly get a nice, if brief, little conversation going about the state of "literature" across some of the blogosphere. Now, that being said, it's usually just a couple of one sided arguments since one side will seemingly not actually listen or read anything that is contrary to their world view, but hey, we got 30+ threads out of it here, eh? Something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Yeah, I know, but I'm jealous that they deleted their diatribe against me and left theirs against Pat up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Now for the anti-Goodkind (Gene Wolfe), in a letter he wrote to an aspiring writer in the 1980s: Who would have thought that Wolfe would have pegged Goodkind so well over 10 years before WFR's release? Now THAT'S eerie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Yeah, I know, but I'm jealous that they deleted their diatribe against me and left theirs against Pat up You'll have to work on that then. Always good to have goals. I sense another blog coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max the Mostly Mediocre Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Just read your thread on .net where you were trying to discuss the black & white & shades of grey. Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shevchyk Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Does getting one's own palace count as a kind of self-improvement? Or does Objectivism not really have much to say concerning non-materialist attitudes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreverlad Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Does getting one's own palace count as a kind of self-improvement? Or does Objectivism not really have much to say concerning non-materialist attitudes? Absolutely not. It's communism wrapped in a brick thrown through the window of freedom. It is called the People's Palace, afterall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobelpoke Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 What made me lol when i realized that everyone in the Sword of Truth series are Objectivists. The whole fucking series is nothing but various takes on Objectivism. When i realized this i lol'd heartily. Everyone in these books want what they want, when they want it, how they want it, and do whatever it takes to get it. Richard is more polite than most, but still he would slash'n'hack his way through people defended only with thier hatred for oral celery to get what he wanted if he wanted it bad enough. Then again, the series started to go downhill at Soul of Fire. The books started to become too much about Objectivism after that book until the very end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneeye Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I thought Rachel and Gratch were pretty cool and occasionally Nicci and Zed have their moments. If Terry had a good editor, cut back on the philosophy by 99%, didn't copy so much from Jordan in the early books, had more realistic characters, he could occasionally create a page turner. flame on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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