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Funniest part of that was that Terry Goodkind clearly did not know anything about socialist realism

I did read it up until about halfway through the last book, thinking that it would eventually get better while it instead just got worse. Decided that the whole thing had been a complete waste of time besides maybe giving me a greater appreciation for the fact that the real world was less of a slog

Read the first book as a kid, thought it was pretty good, but was put off by all the sex stuff. Started reading the second book when I saw it in a library when I was about 15, and couldn’t get through the first chapter because of how sexist it was.

Glad I’ve blocked that out

What I remember most vividly from that series is how absolutely bone-chilling everything about the Confessors were. You could absolutely have a really cool and interesting fantasy series in which they’re the main villains, but Terry Goodkind’s political views just wouldn’t allow it.

I have to ask what possessed you to not give up after the first couple

I don’t think it would’ve made a very good essay either

Canonical answer is The Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card, since it turns out that if the good guys have a mind controlling god computer that’s always right on their side it gets really hard to have meaningful conflict.

Film Reroll

In the later books they accidentally open a portal to the part of the world where there are communists and for a while afterwards Richard finds himself unable to eat cheese as penance for all the communists he’s killing but then he realizes that communists are so evil it’s ok to kill them so he can eat cheese again

The only acceptable answer is The Vatican

How would we possibly know?

Society

As someone who spent much of her teenage years arguing with various ghouls online, it’s not worth it.

No, since it would require draconian control over people’s lives.

Not unless tech companies are incentivized to do so, which they won’t be for the foreseeable future.

I keep noticing more and more of Chumbawamba’s discography being greyed out on Spotify but no one else seems to and I can’t find an announcement or anything

Guy getting with a mermaid is straight.