Good, Deep, Fantasy/Sci-Fi Series (for Older Readers)

[Bostaevski]

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re: Terry Goodkind...

I read his first five books, only because I hadn't heard of Robert Jordan first. I then switched to Jordan's books, which were written years prior, and found way too many striking similarities (read: Goodkind ripped off Jordan huge, just huge). It's pretty gross when you sit down and start examining the parallels in both series.

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Seemed to me it was a good rip from the arthurian stuff where you have this simple well-intentioned hero guy named Richard/Arthur/Luke Skywalker who finds out his father is a powerful yet evil ruler named Darken Rahl/Uther Pendragon/Darth Vader. He has a mentor though, a powerful wizard named Zed/Merlin/Obiwan. He also has the most kick-ass sword known to man called The Sword of Truth/Excalibur/Light Saber.