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I'm the oppsite... I prefer Martin to Goodkind (though he's quite good also). Martin has impressive character development to go along with complex and artfully twisted plot. He'll make you hate him in one chapter but he'll keep you coming back. It seems he more loosely follows the "Epic Fantasy" form than most Fantasy authors out there... it's more of a framework within which he builds a very "gritty" (for lack of a better word) story. You'll see when you get into the story... he kills sacred cow after sacred cow. Whatever rules you think Epic Fantasy has... he breaks em. His world may not have Tolkein scope, but his recreation of court intrigue certainly makes "the Game of Houses" in "the Wheel of Time" look like childs play.
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