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    <body><![CDATA[Brooks is a great fantasy storyteller. Notice I said storyteller, not writer. Some things about his style drive me nuts - like his incurable compulsion to explain EVERYTHING over and over and over, from every possible angle until you just want to scream, &quot;Get on with it!&quot; His writing style...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78240249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jared and I listened to half of this audio book during our Thanksgiving travels.  It was entertaining enough but when we got back in the car to go home I realized that I didn't really care if we finished it or not.  So we didn't.  I might like it a little better if I were to read it, at least I woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39034368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy a good Shannara trilogy and this book was a good start to another amazing adventure.  Penderrin Ohmsford finds himself unprepared to take on the biggest challenge of his life - rescuing his aunt.  She is the High Druid of Shannara and some of her collegues have conspired against her. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60470312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting series.  Terry Brooks seems to be getting more and more cryptic and crude as he gets older.  There are some very disgusting parts of this series (immodesty, descriptive gore, etc...).  <br/><br/>And the whole meshing of sci-fi, with the Shannara world seemed to weird...<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39458564">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a fan of Terry Brooks for a long time.  Most people would probably be familiar with his work when he wrote the Novel &quot;Hook&quot; which was a sequel of Peter Pan.  The underlying concepts of this book are great.  The idea that a mystical land was once a rigid materialistic society, lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7860105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading a Shannara series is like coming home. I’ve been overdosing on mysteries lately and forgotten how fun it was to read about places with magic and fantastical creatures. There are even flying ships! Terry Brooks always includes great maps with his books, and I spent some time poring over the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55264935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard for me to give this one more than a moderate rating, since I've rated the prequel books in this series so highly. Additionally I think I skipped the last book in the ilse witch series. In any case, this is an acceptable coming of age adventure. Nothing really stands out so far, beyond the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50141223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the beginning of a great series the book start off with the disappearance of the High Druid. The tale is the story of younge Penderrin Ohmsford as he begins a search for the High Druid. The tale takes him all over the known and unknown portions of the world of Shannara. As the tory progresse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21899508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's alot of history I don't feel apart of. I'm used to starting these types of books from the beginning. Still Interesting, but I feel a little detached. Everything is pretty dark. There is very little humor in it and I guess I just miss the light-heartedness of other authors. I like it and will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51986517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent. I found myself being overly-critical of it at first, but I did get interested in the story. It struck me that there is more sex in this book and Tanequil (I haven't made it to Straken yet) than in the 11 or so books that came before it. I'm not sure if it's his choice or his editor's choice ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33334898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt pretty lukewarm about this one.  It took a while to get into the story, but the end picked up a little.  As part of my quest to read all of Brooks' Shannara series, I really felt that I was just checking this one off the list.  Hopefully the next one will be better.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to make of this book.  I enjoyed the plot but not particularly Terry Brooks' writing style.  He's very up-front about what his characters' motivations/feelings are, in a tedious way.  It's not that I demand subterfuge, but his characters all come across as simplistic because he nev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22271555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that this series was much improved from the Jerle Shannara series. I really liked the idea of a female druid and it was good to get to see the internal politics and infighting involved with trying to re-form the druid counsel.<br/><br/>I have to mention though that if you haven't read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15553.The_Voyage_of_the_Jerle_Shannara_Trilogy" title="The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks">the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17694679">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shannara books are fun, but I find that I pretty much forget everything about them not too long after reading them.  I think my brain just gets tired of trying to remember all the goofy names and characters.  I think Mr. Brooks should pare down the cast a little to help us out.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE the High Druid series...very complex and with a lot of surprises!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Brooks is amazing!  Makes me want to start at the very beginning of the Shannara books again, but I want to go forward too!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For fans of Brooks and the Shannara series, this book is more of the same and is certainly not disappointing.  But I also felt like it didn't really add all that much new in terms of the types of characters or problems.  It does unveil more about the back story of the series and some of the powers a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18867669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was pretty good. it followed Terry Brooks' formula for most of his other stories: big problem + grand adventure + (light) love story. his books tie together well, and you don't have to read all of his other books to understand this one. it summarizes the history of the world, but doesn't d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2758114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only short series that Terry Brooks wrote that I did not like.  The story had a lot of potential, but for me this one wasn't very imaginative and in the last 2 books it flopped on its face.  I don't know if he ran out of ideas, or was just concentrating more on the Genesis series, but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33102644">more...</a>]]></body>
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