By the time I finished reading it, I knew that Wizard’s First Rule was anything but generic fantasy-but I couldn’t yet put my finger on what was different about it.
It was in the fantasy section, and I hadn’t yet read it that was good enough for me. When I went to the base library and picked up Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind, I had never heard of the author, and I had no particular reason for selecting that particular book. The other slot usually was occupied by a generic fantasy novel-something to pass the time on Sunday mornings after church.
One of my books, of course, was the Bible. During the first portion of my medic program (“Black” phase), soldiers were allowed only two books and no electronic devices. 1Įvery aspect of an Army trainee’s life is heavily controlled. I genuinely believed that God was the only path to happiness-yet I felt miserable almost every day, and my misery could be explained only partly by my extremely negative experience in the U.S. I was six weeks into a long and grueling Army medic training program, intermittently single and engaged (it was complicated), and a devout Christian. In January 2006, I was (barely) nineteen years old.
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