I mean, neither “you” nor “all” is a gendered term in any way

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The latter

Annoying atheist who tried to argue with religious people with Facts and Logic.

1939

There has to be a simpler way for you to phrase this question

One of those things on the bottom path is not like the others.

Ok xoomer

Funniest part of that was that Terry Goodkind clearly did not know anything about socialist realism

I did read it up until about halfway through the last book, thinking that it would eventually get better while it instead just got worse. Decided that the whole thing had been a complete waste of time besides maybe giving me a greater appreciation for the fact that the real world was less of a slog

Read the first book as a kid, thought it was pretty good, but was put off by all the sex stuff. Started reading the second book when I saw it in a library when I was about 15, and couldn’t get through the first chapter because of how sexist it was.

Glad I’ve blocked that out

What I remember most vividly from that series is how absolutely bone-chilling everything about the Confessors were. You could absolutely have a really cool and interesting fantasy series in which they’re the main villains, but Terry Goodkind’s political views just wouldn’t allow it.

I have to ask what possessed you to not give up after the first couple

I don’t think it would’ve made a very good essay either

Canonical answer is The Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card, since it turns out that if the good guys have a mind controlling god computer that’s always right on their side it gets really hard to have meaningful conflict.

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In the later books they accidentally open a portal to the part of the world where there are communists and for a while afterwards Richard finds himself unable to eat cheese as penance for all the communists he’s killing but then he realizes that communists are so evil it’s ok to kill them so he can eat cheese again

The only acceptable answer is The Vatican

How would we possibly know?