re: #350 JasonA

I… I kinda enjoyed those chapters, but damn did that go on for a long time. I realized I was reading a masterpiece when the heroine, who has mind-control power to explain it in a nutshell, made a man eat his own… stuff. Yeah, the man was a child molester and murderer (and in a way over-the-top sort of way) but that was the final straw that led me to label it as so-good-it’s-bad.

Goodkind managed to make it to the 100 page rule for his first book. If I do not quit within the first 100 pages I will finish it.

However, it really sucked. I have not looked into the others in the series.

As to GOOD fantasy, two stand alones that I can not recommend highly enough are:

Fairytale by Raymond E. Feist (and his Magician series is my third fav fantasy series)

And Ysabel by Guy Gabriel Kay.