Reply #40: The later books in the Sword of Truth series are disgusting.

[Evoman]

I can't believe I wasted all that time on them. I don't think Goodkind is a very good writer...he just tells a good story. But the later books were atrocious. At the beginning, the characters were at least semi-lifelike...the woodsman Richard was kind of goofy but clever,Zedd was wise, and Kahlan understandably was cold as the Mother Confessor. But then his characters started becoming mouth pieces for his idiotic Randian philosophy. Richard cuts the head off a peaceful protester, Zedd becomes a moron whose presence is only meant to show how Richards so much smarter with "magic", and Kahlan becomes just another captured princess.

I hate Terry Goodkind.