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In reply to the discussion: Darken Rahl and his Trip to the Underworld (or, eat it, antigamers) [View all]Occulus
(20,599 posts)6. They got really, really preachy after Temple of the Winds
and you can outright skip "Faith of the Fallen" and "The Pillars of Creation".
That said, the first book, from which this sequence is taken, is very, very good and doesn't contain much (if any) of the Randian Objectivism (ick, uck) found in the later novels.
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I was going to pick something from the Bible, but this was a whole lot more mild
Occulus
Dec 2012
#9
LOL -- am I getting this right? Videos games aren't bad because some SciFi/Fantasy book is worse?
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#10
Violence is a part of the human experience. An awful part, but a part none the less.
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#13
"To tell a good story you sometimes have to talk about the darker side of humanity." -- may be so! -
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#18
There are lots and lots of "first person shooters" out there that really aren't.
Occulus
Dec 2012
#31
Yep, he doesn't flinch from the horrors his characters visit on each other. I'm up to
Cleita
Dec 2012
#33
My point was to illustrate that many books are far, FAR more violent than any game
Occulus
Dec 2012
#16
"SCI-FI/Fantasy is telling. It is properly termed "adult fantasy", and your improper classification"
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#30
So NOW you say that it's "honestly debatable" terminology of classification,
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#37
Ha...I was wondering where you were going to go with this after reading the title.
Evoman
Dec 2012
#11
forgive me for saying this, but your synopsis would make a decent video game story
0rganism
Dec 2012
#14
Yes, you can. It's not exactly EASY in a post-apocalypic nuclear wasteland, but you CAN.
Occulus
Dec 2012
#29
It was tried as the television show "Legend of the Seeker", produced by Disney/ABC
Occulus
Dec 2012
#19