“Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all.”
I remember he doesn’t feel like working so someone else has to do his work for him or something.
There’s a vaguely Asian bad guy whose army is defeated by a naked chick dumping ground-up glass from her galloping horse.
There’s some kind of gross monster called a gar that has flies or something in the first book.
I think someone has sex with a sword in a bathtub in the first book.
The naked chick gets badly hurt in battle and is nursed back to health by her bf leaving a glass of water too far away for her to reach.
I stopped reading as a teenager on the pillars of creation because even the author was getting bored and he introduced a bunch of new characters.
“Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all.”
there’s the Randroid brainworms