There is a Reading Order list on Terry's website. He has also written a couple of novelizations for major motion pictures - Hook and Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace. Terry Brooks expressed his desire in the beginning of Dark Wraith to further explore the relationship between Jair and Garet Jax. I've gotten several recommendations to read the Shannara books by Terry Brooks in the past, but now that I look on Wikipedia, I've found that the books make up several different trilogies and standalone books. Then I would read First King of Shannara, the standalone book. Shannara is an epic fantasy series of novels by American author. Readers and writers of fantasy owe Terry Brooks much thanks.Link: => /d?s=YToyOntzOjc6InJlZmVyZXIiO3M6MzY6Imh0dHA6Ly9iYW5kY2FtcC5jb21fZG93bmxvYWRfcG9zdGVyLyI7czozOiJrZXkiO3M6Mjg6IlNoYW5uYXJhIGJvb2tzIHJlYWRpbmcgb3JkZXIiO30= If other authors have surpassed him in some respects, then they have done so almost certainly thanks to his influence. But I doubt whether anyone outside Tolkien himself has done more than Brooks to make and keep Fantasy relevant, readable, and sellable (the Del Reys are certainly in his debt!). Similar is the journey that Fantasy at large has taken since Rings.Īrguments can be made about other authors or books being superior to Brooks or Shannara. The story is darker, more personal, and more philosophically weighted than its predecessors. Finally, in Wishsong, Brooks is on his own. By the end of the book, the story is very much its own, though, and when we get to Elfstones, we see the author really stretching his wings, taking his story in new and very interesting directions. In Sword, we get a story that starts as a mirror image of The Lord of the Rings. The Shannara series, especially the original trilogy, is a microcosm of the world of published Fantasy. (Let’s be honest, it still dwarfs almost anything anyone ever reads!) I was captivated, and I still am, two decades and a half-dozen or more readings later. At the age of 9 or so, my mother handed me a copy of The Sword of Shannara: a massive tome that dwarfed anything I’d read up to that point. Shannara was for me, and surely for many others about my age, the entrance to the world(s) of High Fantasy.
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