Writing The shanara series.

[Guest visser 3]

Ok these books were the best ever. What do you guys think of them? Also which is your favorite of them all?

[Sara]

[size=1]I've read the first one, and to be honest...I didn't much care for it.

Two of my friends made a list of all the parallels between [i]Sword of Shannara[/i] and [i]The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings,[/i] though...that was pretty funny.[/size]

[Sandy]

I've read the legacy of Shannara -series (don't know what the exact name is in English). It was decent, but do you really think that a fantasy book with such clichés as the Four Apocalyptic Riders is the best ever? :therock:

Visser, you should consider reading more books... :smirk:

Side note: If you want to see Four Riders at their best, I suggest you read Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens" - THAT's one of the best fantasy books ever! ;) (though one could debate if it's really fantasy or not - but let's not get into that.)

[Guest visser 3]

Ok I'll look it up, but lets keep to topic. Also Sara the first book is kinda slow so i can see why you didnt care for it but the Elfstones is a really good one.

[Phantom]

Terry Brooks is VERY AMAZING except i didnt read teh shanara i only read the magical kingdom where the dude bought a kingdom for like 1 mil or somthing! lol its crazy fun

[Guest visser 3]

yeah i have heard about those books those are good ones. You should read the shannara books

[Meteora]

[color=darkblue][size=1][i]I have read them all. I am currently rereading the Elfstones of Shannara. This book is awsome. It has a great storyline, and there is a lot of action. My favorite is the Elfstones. Since that is the first one I read plus I know that book front and Back.

The other books are great as well. Like the Sword of Shannara. This one starts off slow in the begining as Visser said, and then turns into an awsome book. I think Allanon is cool. This is the book where he really gets explained in the others he is just a mystery.

The wishsong Im kinda blurry on cuz I only read it once, and that was a long time ago. But it was really good. Sorry I dont have that much info on this one, as I do the others.


The First King, is like the prequel of all the books. It introduces the entire world of the Four Lands. It starts off with Bremen, Allanon's father, He needs to defeat the worlock lord with the sword of shannara. Its really good if you want to learn of the past of shannara.

The others like Scions, Druid, Elfqueen, Talismans, of Shannara are all the same thing except the Scions is what starts the three other books. This book tells about three humans who are descendents or something like that of Jerle Shannara. They have to restore the peace of the four lands. Allanon is back, and he tells one person to find the elfs and bring them back to the four lands, when supposably they are gone forever. Then the Elfqueen of Shannara is just about her journey to restore the elves. He tells another person that he has to restore the druids keep in Paranor. And restore the druids. Plus he has to find the black elfstones to help him restore the druids keep. The hard part is the fact that the elfstones were supposably lost from the four lands.The Druids of Shannara is about his journey going around trying to restore the druids keep and trying to find the Black Elfstones, so that they can aid him on his task. Then he tells the last person to find the Sword of Shannara and thats all I can remember about that. The Talismans of Shannara is about him doing the task that Allanon has befallen him.


Now throughout these books all the journeys are all going on. Like every chapter it shifts to a different journey. They are all really good books and if you havent read them yous hould definetly check them out.



Now thats all I got to say about that.[/color][/size][/i]