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Date Posted: 15:32:21 11/01/02 Fri
Author: Yurian
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Re: Terry Goodkind's new book.
In reply to: Aiden Morax 's message, "Re: Terry Goodkind's new book." on 16:37:38 10/31/02 Thu

>If you are not a writer yourself Tipereth, I suggest you try creating a character that is well rounded, exciting, with personal qualms and issues<

Well, I'm not Tipereth, but this board is practically dead, so in the interest of keeping it alive I'll reply.

Basically what you seem to be saying is not to criticise someone when you couldn't do better yourself. I disagree. Just because I'm not a writer doesn't mean I can't recognise and make judgements on what is and what is not good writing. Many professional critics spend their lives doing this without every writing themselves.

Personally I haven't read Terry Goodkind, but in general I wouldn't feel constrained from giving an opinion of a book on the basis that its probably better than whatever I could hash out.

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