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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF terrible book: Freud molesting a thesaurus.
 
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Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005
 This many posts and no mention of the goddamn Twilight series?

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Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

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Terry Goodkind though, terrible. The main character of the Sword of Truth series, Richard Rahl, at one point ends up bringing down the evil (socialist) empire's capital city. It goes something like:

+Start sculpting a statue (Richard Rahl is good at swordfighting, magics, BDSM, everything, so he just goes for it)
+Use the power of the free market to get sculpting supplies and make friends
+Make a sculpture so beautiful it makes everyone realize socialism is evil
+City revolts

Also the sculpture is of him and his wife.

The books can actually be entertaining, though. There's a sick part where Richard plays murderball against the evil empire, and does rad flips and poo poo to score goals.

I tried to read this series and could not bring myself to read the second book after slogging through the first. The entire last quarter of it is torture porn. It was loving unbearable.

Also "Darken Rahl". I want to know the thought process that created that name.

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Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

The Vosgian Beast posted:

The best part of it is that Richard takes to wearing an instrument of torture around his neck as a symbol of resilience or something.

The very same, instrument, incidentally, that a dominatrix shoved up his rear end.

Plus he gets massive Stockholm syndrome at one point, and they slowly try to make his abuser seem sympathetic.

Which really just makes it sicker and weirder.

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