Julio Genao's Reviews > Wizard's First Rule

I couldn't get past 5 pages.

Ha! I read all 11 books. Do I get a medal? :P
I did like them (at the time). I think I'll like them less if I read them now. But I just pictured Richard from the series and I was drooling in my mind...

Khanh (the Grinch) wrote: "I couldn't get past 5 pages."

you are so lucky

total rapefest BDSM dafuquery of no particular sense

ayn rand supporters are so tedious

Susan wrote: "Ha! I read all 11 books. Do I get a medal? :P
I did like them (at the time). I think I'll like them less if I read them now. But I just pictured Richard from the series and I was drooling in my min..."

*drools with you*

lordy, who even is that

I loved the first few books. Having read WoT now, too - I think the last book, well, the last few books suffered on account of Jordan being deceased. Take from that what you will. >:D

The BDSM and Ayn Rand philosophies didn't bother me; I'm not averse to either, however, recycled content is recycled content.

Individualism is an interesting study to me, but if you use the same mouthpiece to reverberate the same message over and over...... yeah - even your supporters think pushing your philosophies into your work till it suffocates a storyline is not cool, bro.

i found his development, as a character, almost as oppressive as his actions

His perfect person BS- with no real backstory or experience, really irks me as I look back through the entire series.

And I agree 100%, Julio. Even as someone who enjoyed the books, from a full view of the entire series, his character development was already in place as it started. He's the genius. He's the strongest. He's the most resilient. Brave. THE ONE. He's the exception to the rules of mankind. XD

Also, everyone around him had faults, but he didn't. Those that were flawed are the ones that enriched the story for me. :D

The last book itself was riddled with so much "GOD MODE" nonsense and worldbreaking mechanics, that I seriously think the man lost his freakin' mind. There's a fine line between figuring out codes/methods/means of complex riddles and puzzles, but none of the last book's ideas were grounded in ingenuity; it reminded me of Dragonball Z. "The answer to X puzzle is somewhere, far far away, that we can never ever reach...... oh look, five minutes later, we're there!"

And all of the Big Mysteries that were framed from book 1 till the last? We already knew the answers to, but guess what? We get TOLD what we already knew/know...over and over. Also, the best characters were left dead, but the most profanely slackster ones came back to life. -.- Lmao

Overall, I'd give the entire series a 3 rating. Half of the books I loathed, half I thought were pretty good. It's really a mixed bag.

That's probably a prejudice rating too, because I started when I was 14. >:P

was this this series that had the quote "That was no chicken, it was evil incarnate?" I seem to remember something about that...

omg i think it is! don't know if this is from the book you read but, uh, check this out. eeeeviiiil chicken http://winteriscomingbitch.tumblr.com...

...holy shit

I was gonna say... isn't this the series with the evil chicken? Pluto beat me to it.

julio wrote: "...holy shit"

It's like Ocarina of Time meets The Birds. o_o

hahaha

Everything about this was the worst. Well, maybe not exactly, but a lot of it is the worst and then it gets more and more terrible until you wish you had never.

For me this is marked as read because I read it, then successfully erased it from my memory, and then accidentally read it again. So now all I know is that reading it is bad.

julio wrote: "Susan wrote: "Ha! I read all 11 books. Do I get a medal? :P
I did like them (at the time). I think I'll like them less if I read them now. But I just pictured Richard from the series and I was droo..."

The books have been made into an even more awful tv show (Legend of the Seeker). The first season was pretty good, but after that it got absolutely ridiculous. The show was canceled...
But..... EYE CANDY!!




And yes, this is the series with an evil chicken. :P

i am willing to forgive all kinds of tv sins in return for eye-candy

Pluto Planet of Love wrote: "i am willing to forgive all kinds of tv sins in return for eye-candy"

*fist bump*

Naomi wrote: "Everything about this was the worst. Well, maybe not exactly, but a lot of it is the worst and then it gets more and more terrible until you wish you had never.

For me this is marked as read beca..."

a harrowing experience. *slides a tankard of ale down the bar*

Susan wrote: "julio wrote: "Susan wrote: "Ha! I read all 11 books. Do I get a medal? :P
I did like them (at the time). I think I'll like them less if I read them now. But I just pictured Richard from the series ..."

there's just not much I can say against glistening lads in leather

i'll take the subway chicken over this series.

I SAW A NEW TERRY GOODKIND BOOK IN THE LIBRARY YESTERDAY.

Carol. wrote: "i'll take the subway chicken over this series."

it's appalling

Miriam wrote: "I SAW A NEW TERRY GOODKIND BOOK IN THE LIBRARY YESTERDAY."

*narrows eyes*

is that so.

I was sharing my surprise that this is still ongoing, not suggesting you read it.

very well. I will allow it.

I appreciate your magnanimity. Goodkind is a touchy subject, I ought to have phrased that more carefully.

hahahaha MIRIAM.

You laugh now, but Goodkind is coming for you. With his sword of truth.

he's too busy writing gorean fiction while masturbating to Ladies N Leather dominatrix porn

OK YOU WIN STOP

*stops*

Pretty sure it was a Pyrrhic victory, though.

oh, yes. indubitably.

Violence Goodkindporn is not the answer.

if only it were! there's an awful lot of it...

Nice double-meaning usage of "awful".

*smirk*

Awfully clever, old chap.

I cannot argue the similarities between the sword of truth and wheel of time. I think the sword of truth was a more enjoyable read though. I really liked wheel of time but found Robert Jordan far too wordy at times and found myself skimming those parts.