Fantasy archetype...

[fajrdrako]

I'm not sure how predictable it was, but this result for this quiz seems to list many of my favourite heroes:

What Fantasy Archetype Are you?
The Seasoned Veteran Friend You are the Seasoned Veteran Friend! You resemble Aragorn (Lord of The Rings), Merlin (Arthurian Legend), Han Solo (Star Wars), The Marquis (Neverwhere), Sirius Black (Harry Potter) and Chase (Wizard's First Rule). You are exceedingly loyal, tricky and hardy. You regularly pull the Unlikely Hero, Mentor and Pillor-of-Strength Love Interest out of trouble and into safety. Beware The Traitor, who will make your job intensely difficult. And don't coddle the Unlikely Hero too much, he has to learn how to fend for himself. Anyway, everyone admires you and your resourcefullness / reliability - good going!
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Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Richard Cypher ... is a character of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.

Ah! There, I've heard of Terry Goodkind.

one of the things I really enjoy about the characters is that they LOVE life

Oh, wonderful! I love characters like that. This may seem contradictory, because I often like jaded/alienated characters too, but the one thing is the flip side of the other - cynics being romantics and vice versa, at least conceptually.

You make these books sounds very attractive. I am putting them on my 'to be read' list. Which one should I start with?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Wizard's First Rule. That's where the story starts... and I haven't tried to read them out of order, so I cannot say what the effect of that would be.

As I said, the turn-off is the level of entanglement Goodkind gradually sinks them into.

Oh, another thing about Goodkind - very much of an Ayn Rand influence.

My favourite of the books is Faith of the Fallen... although the one before that almost lost me.

Much as I love the books, and much as they have kept me up till all hours of the night (and at a time when I was getting early for school, and rehearsing two plays), they are not the kind that one can immediately re-read (as LMB books can be, until the twentieth re-read or so).

Oh well. Even though the stories get a bit tiresome, I find I'm missing Richard and Kahlan. And Zed. And Chade. Oh, the whole bunch of them... That's why I think Goodkind did a decent job of character creation and development.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

another thing about Goodkind - very much of an Ayn Rand influence

Interesting! I have mixed feelings about Ayn Rand. Never liked her philosophy in the least, but found her books fascinating - until I came to an 'enough is enough' point and stopped reading them.

Good characters is more than enough reason to enjoy books.