Well, Richard did make the Mord-Sith show him their nipples. Then later they brag to Kahlan like, "He made us show him our breasts! *smug smug* xD

I started reading the series at random because I joined a science fiction book club and chose the first two as choices for free books. It was an overall enjoyable series despite the annoyance of getting preached to but something else that drove me crazy was how pointlessly often Goodkind would bring up and describe "wayward pines" about midway through the series. I got the impression he was over-proud of them and wanted to bring them up in the story as often as possible to show off what he created. It was the same with how he always had to bring up Richard's "hawk-like stare". I got pretty sick with having to read about them.

I couldn't get into the show. I tried watching the first few episodes and it was just let down after let down. Zedd and Nathan were some of my favorite characters in the series. I didn't watch long enough to see what they could do with Nathan because the guy acting as Zedd just did a horrible job compared to what I see him as. I much prefer imagination land.