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I was super into Terry Goodkind's novels when I was 12. thankfully I kept reading and developed some taste. embarrassing
There was a guy here like yesterday that swore up and down that Ayn-Rand-with-swords-and-more-sexual-violence had no political messaging whatsoever and was actually super insightful with lessons for life like "everyone else is stupid but you, the reader who is reading this who agrees with the author."
No politics? That's bonkers. Even as a tween reader my "sus" meter was going off in the first book and by book five it was through the roof.
That fan's posts were deleted by mods, but the defense was a lot of "um..." statements and saying that they didn't see the politics therefore they simply aren't there, with an emphasis on how wise and life changing "Wizard's First Rule" was to them. You know, the one about how everyone else is stupid and the wizard is smart, and people that agree with the wizard are smart.
Fan probably has fond memories of self-Inserting as the perfect righteous super-man Richard and everything else in the text is a blur.
I'm rolling before I've even read the post. in a way they're right - the politics are so incoherent that the only thing you can consistently get out of it is anticommunism and a general hatred for actual human beings.
Similar. I grew up as I read them and at a certain point just hate-read them to reach the ending. It says a lot when the best book is when Richard doesn't appear for more than 5 pages.