I love Goodkind for being an Objectivist but his writing does tend to be a little bland. I've only read the first book, though. I hear his writing doesn't really improve. I also thought the Mord-Sith bit was more like Goodkind describing his wildest sex fantasy.
As for Terry Brooks, I loved the Knight of the Word series in junior high. Haven't really looked at it since then, though. I wrote to him and he wrote back eventually. I thought it was pretty cool that he personally responds in hand written letters to all of his fan mail no matter how long it takes him.
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