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A friend who was also into fantasy insisted I read this series, and I got as far as the first three books before I stopped believing him when he told me they were magical and wonderful and would get better and better. As far as I can tell, they all have the exact same plot. Mysterious Wizard shows up at home of person. Tells person he is Chosen for an Important Quest. What follows is chapter after chapter of "I don't WANNA go on a Quest!" "You MUST go on a Quest!" Seriously, I know the reluctant
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When I was but an impressionable teen, my crush gave me this book for my birthday. He had teeth like little baby pearls and could quote from The Princess Bride, so I was pretty far gone on him. This book was so bad that it effectively cured me of that crush. Despite being a plot-point-for-plot-point, character-for-character rip-off of the Lord of the Rings, it's pretty boring. In fact, the only surprise in this novel is that despite such blatant plagiarism, none of the beauty of Tolkein's descri
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My first "high fantasy". Loads of adventure, a cool new world, it was like giving me candy!
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There are no female characters in this book. There is an abundance of adverbs, which is a sign of a weak writer.
Did not finish.
Did not finish.
This was my first non-YA epic fantasy. I read it when I was 14. And I *loved* it.
My father came to me and said "If you're going to read fantasy, you should read this", and handed me a copy of Lord of the Rings.
I read it, and discovered that all of my favorite parts of The Sword of Shannara were the parts that were blatantly taken from LotR.
(Of course, that didn't stop me from reading more Shannara books.) ...more
My father came to me and said "If you're going to read fantasy, you should read this", and handed me a copy of Lord of the Rings.
I read it, and discovered that all of my favorite parts of The Sword of Shannara were the parts that were blatantly taken from LotR.
(Of course, that didn't stop me from reading more Shannara books.) ...more
I originally read this in the late '80's after "Elfstones" and "Wishsong", and though I liked the other two books, I remembered nothing about this one.
I've been trying to re-read this for the last month and only got halfway through because first I skimmed and then skipped entire pages. Even the trudging and being scared parts of Tolkien's "The Two Towers" only takes about a hundred and fifty pages before the action picks up again. This....has been hundreds of pages of trees, walking, more walkin ...more
I've been trying to re-read this for the last month and only got halfway through because first I skimmed and then skipped entire pages. Even the trudging and being scared parts of Tolkien's "The Two Towers" only takes about a hundred and fifty pages before the action picks up again. This....has been hundreds of pages of trees, walking, more walkin ...more
Oct 16, 2009
Zack
marked it as to-read
Aug 21, 2012
Erin
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Mar 19, 2014
Mark
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Sep 09, 2014
Jennifer
marked it as dnf
Aug 10, 2015
Kati
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Jan 12, 2016
Morgan
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Apr 29, 2016
steen
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