So it’s been announced that noted author Terry Goodkind has died. For those who haven’t read his books, they were a fantasy series which included a heavy dose of objectivism and libertarianism as well. He was very unabashedly pushing an agenda of “government bad, rise up and live your life in freedom and do what you want to do, you can succeed without government”, and with the news that he has died, a shitton of leftists on Reddit have come crawling out of the woodwork to shit on the man.
It’s actually kinda sickening to watch so many people come out and attack him barely 24 hours after his death and mischaracterise his work as well. There’ll be outright lies of “oh, his books say fuck the poor, only the rich are worthwhile” and similar stuff, and yet reading them, it’s pretty obvious that he very much goes for the complete opposite of general leftist policy and believes that everyone has a chance to succeed if they just apply themselves. Yes, he did some hackneyed writing and relied on one too many dei ex machinis at times, which is fair game for critique, but it’s saddening watching the circlejerk of “I hate his books because they preach that we shouldn’t be reliant on government” begin in real time.
Anyway, rant over.
I've heard good things about The Sword of Truth, but never got around with it. I'm currently going through the latest few books of Ben Bova's Grand Tour universe, but maybe I'll try The Sword of Truth next.
Edit: I'm reading the Wizards Rules on the Wikipedia page for the series. No wonder the SJWs hate him.
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true.
People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
Just... don't watch the TV series ?
Shanarra? It was amusingly terrible, at least the first season.
That's Terry Brooks, not Terry Goodkind.
Similar sword-and-sorcery setting, much less political (at least the books).
The series was obscenely heavy-handed with a twist that Brooks set up for twenty years from day one, which was even more of a turn-off than Crixus as a druid.
Dammit. Oh well, at least I didn't confuse him with Terry Pratchett.