Most people put those down when he rapes the girl at the beginning of the first novel.
Perhaps true. But in context he was afflicted with a disease and believed he was delusional. He was a miserabke SOB who had the key to saving the world but refused to use it because he thought it was all In his head, that he was dying and his mind was gone. So he never believed his actions were real. Still, if he rapes girls even in his fever dreams he's not a nice, well adjusted guy, which was the point. Personally ir read the books but I never liked the main character and had a hard time getting through them all. But that's just me, I don't care for anti-hero protagonists in general.