Wizard's First Rule

DNF at page 208. Whereas [b:The Lies of Locke Lamora 29588376 The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) Scott Lynch https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1458646334l/29588376.SY75.jpg 2116675] got 2 stars because it's not bad, I just don't like it, this will get only one, because... I don't think anyone should read it. There's tons of other books to read that are better. I really tried. I should have read this when I was a teenager. Though... it was published after I was a teenager. It reads like 80s' Fantasy, though it was published 1993. It has all the tropes and everything, and nothing new and original, or interesting.The only reason why I'm reading this is that I saw a video “I read 27 books from a Buzzfeed list... here's what happened”, and I wanted to do the same, but with Fantasy books, and I found this list: The 51 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written, and I thought it can't be that bad, I'll take that.And... well... It can.Let's say that Sword of Truth is a pretty controversial subject. The author's attitude about himself, his books and Fantasy genre in general, stink. Yes, he tries to backtrack, but, honey, you already shot yourself in the foot, and so badly that you don't have any foot left to save. Just whittle yourself a pegleg and get it over with. You have fans, let that be enough. I am not one of them.The main character is an a-hole. Nothing bad with that, except that his creator, he himself and everyone he meets in the book seems to disagree. That just lets me know I can't trust anything these people say about anything. And when I know the author is trying to feed me BS, I won't be eating anything he serves.It tastes too much of [b:Elric of Melniboné 30036 Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1) Michael Moorcock https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388345555l/30036.SY75.jpg 388812] and [a:Ayn Rand 432 Ayn Rand https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1168729178p2/432.jpg], and even though I think both are better authors than Terry Goodkind, I dislike all of these books. Ayn Rand's values and opinions pretty much stink, as well, Elric was an a-hole as well. When you have those kind of people as ideals, it's no wonder Wizard's First Rule stinks. You can't write better than what you aspire to write. And Kahlan. She managed fine before she met Richard and then became a damsel in distress who needs constant saving, and is pretty useless. But we are told all the time what an amazing person she is, and so powerful and all that. If I can't witness it, I won't believe you. If you haven't been able to convince me otherwise in the first 200 pages of a book, I don't care what you do the rest of the 600 pages of this book, or the rest of the hundreds and thousands of pages of the 15 books in this series so far.(And this is what people mean when they say “show, don't tell”. You can say thousand times Kahlan is amazing, but when she behaves like a damsel in distress for 150 pages, I don't believe you. SHOW me she's amazing, don't just TELL me and expect me to believe you.)Well, I have to say she was presented fine. At the first meeting she seemed to be all Terry said she was, fully capable of taking care of herself, but then she started spending time with Richard, and page by page all that disappeared and she turned into a Frank Frazetta girl. I mean, Edgar Rice Burroughs' heroines have more spunk than this girl.It's not all bad, though. There are some funny bits in there, I like Zed and his cat, etc. Had I not read as much as I have, I would have been totally happy with this. And, I suppose, if I liked Ayn Rand and Michael Moorcock, I wouldn't mind this either. Now, I don't.