>TFP was his first and roughest, and it shows. Still, there's a >lot of value there, it's just mixed with the less impressive >stuff. I made it about halfway through the first book before giving up. Of course, I'm not like a lot of the die-hard masochists on this list, since I tend to put books down as soon as I realize that they're not going to get better further in. ;) I put down Terry Goodkind's novels after _Stone of Tears_ even though I was curious about how he was going to resolve all of those loose ends. Not worth it. I really liked some of his ideas (like the the Confessors, the Mord Sith), but the rest of the books ... ugh. No. -[Snap!] goes the dragon. ---------------------------------------------- "I'm lots smarter than you are. I challenge you to understand even one of my paragraphs!" ---------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Hela veckans väder http://www.msn.se/vader