What with all the talk of heroes and superheroes on this forum lately, I cannot resist posing one of my own.
Who is the better character & why: Rand Al'thor or Richard Rahl?
Who is the better character & why: Rand Al'thor or Richard Rahl?
brokenfingers said:Rand seemed a vanilla flavored sterotypical goody-two shoes hero to me.
trebuchet said:What with all the talk of heroes and superheroes on this forum lately, I cannot resist posing one of my own.
Who is the better character & why: Rand Al'thor or Richard Rahl?
Hmmmm... I think this is a case where story trumps characterization. Kind of like DaVinci Code. Not much going as far as characterization goes but judging from sales, the story was good enough for people to buy it in droves.trebuchet said:Precisely my reason for picking these two characters. I mean, they're both white bread goody-two shoes. Are they conflicted? Are they interesting? In and of themselves, I mean. How can such characters rate being the stars of interminable series?
arodriguez said:they are both the same. personally, im a little sick of richard's self rightousness and kahlan is a sick perverted slut (temple of winds-she went down on strange guy who just had sex with her while she was on the rag)Rand has been acting a little erratic lately, where did he come up with the way to cleanse the taint? oh well, im still reading both so theres still time to swing both ways (no pun intended, Kahlan!)
Proof to me that Terry Goodkind is a man. No woman I know would ever write a scene like this. Sex while menstruating? No flippin' way. Servicing a man while reciprocation is not possible (unless your lover is Lestat)? No flippin' way. Hmmm. Goodkind also was the one to introduce the dominatrix-magic-eaters, right? I'm thinking there's a woman/power issue at work here...((my two-cent psychology hard at work...))arodriguez said:kahlan is a sick perverted slut (temple of winds-she went down on strange guy who just had sex with her while she was on the rag)
LOL. I haven't read Wizard's First Rule, but I have read Jordan. The first few books were great, but then the series deteriorated into a boring mess. However, I am very impressed with Jordan's ability to write 700 pages and hardly advance the plot. Can we say milking a cash cow, anyone? Once you hit book five or six, you'll almost be in tears again. I know I was.whitehound said:I've never read any Robert Jordan, but somebody recommended Wizard's First Rule to me and I promised to try it. I found it so screamingly boring that I couldn't get even a quarter of the way through it, and the mere thought of having to read any more had me almost in tears - "No, no, anything but that!"