Terry Goodkind Wizard's First Rule
I have always enjoyed loosing myself in good science fiction or fantasy book. It has, historically, been one of my favorite time wasting activities. This book, which I picked up in Kuwait on my way back to Afghanistan, is the first installment of a multi-book saga about rags-to-wizardly-and/or magical-riches. In this way, it seems to start out like so many many far too many other Sci Fi books. I know that this one of those best selling well loved series, but I just can get my self into it. Just as well, it would take me forever to get through the series, and I just don't have that kind of time anymore. In fact it's beginning is eerily similar to the way Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series starts out; and I have no intentions of getting stuck in anything like that again (every new book in the series doubles the characters, and triples the plot-confusion...and it has dragged on so long that I dont even remotely remember what happened in the first two or three books...).