And he’s got all these paintings, and his head is SO BALD. He’s just so EARNEST in his weirdness and wrongness and unknowing perversity. I just can’t bring myself to feel negatively about the guy. I had opinions about the guy before (mostly that he was sincere and kind of deluded about the view of his own work and writing), but reading such bad writing for hundreds of pages tends to give one a negative opinion of an author. I also watched the special features and there was this cheesy talk with Terry Goodkind on it, where he gives a tour of his home, his office, and his nature paths that he walks every day for inspiration. Anything I get spoiled for by watching season two is not a loss.ģ. I knew the show only lasted through two seasons, and that most of the stuff it would spoil the books for me would be in those two books. Anyway, I’d had the DVDs of the series for years now after I bought them from a bargain bin at Barnes & Noble, but I’d held off watching until I’d reached book three because I didn’t want to spoil myself.

The biggest advantage of the show versus the book though is that you don’t have to suffer through Goodkind’s simple and repetitive style.

They also made the characters talk like people instead of puppets with Goodkind’s hand up their asses. I did miss a couple of details here and there, but they cast the show very well, and they toned the weird waaaaay the hell down. The show is actually much better than the book. I spent all of last weekend finally watching season one of Legend of the Seeker, the TV show made by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi ( Xena: Warrior Princess), which is based very loosely on the Sword of Truth book series. I think I skipped last year because I ran out of time and also I didn’t care.Ģ. I can’t handle more than one in a 365 day period. With the exception of 2013, I’ve read one of these books a year. So before we get to the explication of weirdness, a couple of things of note that might lend context to this review:ġ. Welcome to the next installment of WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ.

Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind