I've heard this book compared to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings--it's comparable all right, and it's not in Sword of Shannara's favor. I've read the book was the first fantasy to make it on the New York Times bestseller list. I can only speculate it was a matter of timing--that in the late seventies th...
The five star rating came from my 11-year-old self. That girl LOVED this book like no other book before or since. She read it over and over all summer long. She bought the series with her own money and cherished them like they were her babies.I still have those books and I will keep them until I die...
Now, I could say how close to the Lord of the Rings this book is and outline the similarities, but I suspect I will simply be saying the same thing that pretty much every other intelligent Booklikes user has been saying. I will try to talk about some other things with regards to this book, such as t...
This book will always have a fond place in my heart, since it was one of the first older fantasy books that I read. Terry Brooks is fond of repetitiveness and there are a lot of tropes in his writing, but at the time I loved this book and its sequels with a passion. I'd still recommend them to young...
So I found all the one-star reviews and loathing for this book...which reminded me that I read & enjoyed it back in middle school.The library edition was based on the paperback with the purple-shaded cover, though it'd be rebound in white hardcover. Like the Victoria Holt books I also loved in middl...
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-po...
The Sword of Shannara is one of those books that undeniably is technically bad - both in how it rips from Tolkien and also for how it tells its story. Yet for better or worse it set its hooks on me from a young age (much like [b:Eragon|113436|Eragon (Inheritance, #1)|Christopher Paolini|http://d202m...
«Qui giace il cuore e l'anima delle nazioni,Il loro diritto di vivere nella libertà,Il loro desiderio di vivere nella pace,Il loro coraggio di cercare la verità.Qui giace la Spada di Shannara.»Avevo sentito parlare davvero bene di questo libro, ed invece non merita più di tre stelline tirate. La sto...
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