Wizard's First Rule
by Terry Goodkind · first published 1994
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Richard Cypher's father was brutally murdered a month ago, in his home with his guts ripped out of his stomach. While coping with this sudden loss, Richard saves Kahlan Amnell from four mercenaries, and with the help of Richard's friend Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander the three flee to the midlands to stop Darken Rahl's ever expanding empire. Secrets will be revealed, many will perish, and the legends begins.
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…recommendations fiction or non. Those looking for inspiration I'd recommend (not in order) * Ray Bradbury * Pearl S. Buck * John Wyndham * Fyodor Dostoevsky * Frank Herbert - Dune * Terry GoodKind - Wizard's first rule
on “See how many classic books you can read in 2023 with just 20 minutes a day” ↗The Hobbit - Tolkien Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth Book 1) - Goodkind Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth Book 6) - Goodkind Ender's Game - Card 1984 - Orwell I'm looking to read Asimov's Foundation series again. Maybe spend more time…
on “Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?” ↗This is needed if only so I don't have to get sucked into a great first book like Wizard's First Rule to then have to deal with 100 page lectures on Objectivism if I want to find out what happens to the characters later in the series.
on “Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel” ↗"people will find all sorts of ways to believe what they want to believe, to avoid hearing things that they don’t want to hear, and to avoid thinking about things that are too worrisome to contemplate" Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
on “Always the Same Warning Signs” ↗"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie…
on “81-year-old man driven to death by phone scammers” ↗Reading _Wizard's First Rule_ right now. "Charisma bypasses the rational mind and shoots straight into the limbic system (as do fear, outrage, etc)." That's pretty much the premise of the book.
on “Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security” ↗Something, something, Wizard’s First Rule. People will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
on “Facebook chooses profits over people” ↗…same way that LLMs just kinda rearrange pieces from ingested text (which is an oversimplification, bear with me). Like, there’s something special about The Lord of the Rings that is not there in, say, Wizard’s First Rule. I don’t want to pick on or make fun of things too much, but Wizard’s First Rule seems to more rearrange existing ideas in the genre rather than drawing from something else. What I’m saying is that there’s…
on “Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams” ↗> Like, there’s something special about The Lord of the Rings that is not there in, say, Wizard’s First Rule. I don’t want to pick on or make fun of things too much, but Wizard’s First Rule seems to more rearrange existing ideas in the genre rather than drawing from something else. I don't think you're necessarily…
on “Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams” ↗