David de Beer
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14 years ago @ David de Beer - 10 Things you didn't k... · 0 replies · +1 points
Glad you enjoyed it,
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
Am much more interested in the HBO production of George Martin's A Game of Thrones
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
I'll second your endorsement of Gemmell's Rigante novels, thoroughly enjoyed them. The Troy trilogy is sitting on top of my stack of to be read books, as soon as I ever get time to do so.
Goodkind...somewhere along the line it just fizzled. As you said, after a while you just begin to lose faith in the characters. I blame it on the increasingly superman theme that Richard was getting into -- there was nothing he could not do. He just became ever more superhuman and lost the human aspects that made him so appealing to begin with.
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
yeah, I do think sometimes people focus too much on what's wrong with stuff that's popular (get me started on The Matrix and I'll never stop, for example..), but the fact is these books and movies must do something right or they wouldn't mean so much pleasure to so many people. And the usual saying people are so fond of, "well, it just proves that shit sells and people can't appreciate quality," is, I'm sorry, an answer I don't think is accurate at all.
besides, finding fault is easy; discerning what's working and why is more interesting and more insightful into people's psyches.
imo:)
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 1 reply · +1 points
Now, true, the hobbits themselves were powerless to act againt Saruman, and initially Treebeard refused. What the hobbits could and did do, though, was to persuade the ones with the power -- the Ents -- to move and take action.
So, that's another form of competence as well -- not necessarily to act directly, if you are powerless to do so, but to act according to your ability and have an indirect impact.
What it seems to me is that far too often we like to celebrate the obvious heroic and miss the little heroics, and they can be just as important.
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
I think this is just the umpteenth book which proves the Law of Highlander which people ignore time after time after time:
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
eh, I'd heard he had a new book but I just don't care. I take it you've seen the trailer?
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ David de Beer - The Goodkind appeal · 0 replies · +1 points
The Mord-Sith were fantastic, I'll agree to that. Again, though, only in the beginning. Later on it just...fizzled and became weird.
14 years ago @ David de Beer - Middle Grade Fiction · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ David de Beer - Middle Grade Fiction · 0 replies · +1 points