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    <body><![CDATA[     The <em>The Scions of Shannara</em> was my first Terry Brooks book.  Though I wish I had started with the first series written, the book was well worth my time.  Predictable at times but the most significant plot twists caught me entirely off guard.  It will be difficult for a Tolkien fan not to compare...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61466318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, here we go again - another incredible epic from Terry Brooks. This may look to be just another Sword of Shannara Trilogy but the Heritage of Shannara takes you down a much darker road with many more twists.<br/><br/>What makes this book so incredible is that the stage is already set - was se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34213249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my first terry brooks novel, and purely by chance. since then, i was hooked. don't care if people say that brooks was a hack compared to tolkien. i like both authors--they have their own writing styles, and both are very good in their art. <br/><br/>what is great about brooks and his shannara seri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11830811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh.  The reason to read this book is Walker Boh, whose character is being pissed off at the druid-ex-machina in earlier Brooks plots.  This is fair enough, and pretty neat, and makes Allanon's meddling far more interesting.  On the downside, Par and Coll are rather eh (though the true depths of Par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6223695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, written sometime after the original trilogy (with his Magic Kingdom books intervening), picks up a new tale for a new, somewhat distant generation of Shannara characters. It suffers from being rather disjointed, introducing too many different characters and following their separate storie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54369585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like the first Shannara series what a setup for this Heritage of Shannara.  I really like this first book.  It really set the tone for the Heritage series. <br/><br/>This book felt much more dark than the last ones.  I really wanted to know what happened next.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very much like the other Shannara books, but this one does not finish the story!! That dives me crazy! One reads 400 pages and then has to go to the next book to see how things turn out. BAD, bad, bad!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I'm not even done this book at the moment, but I read it years ago and I always love them.  What can I say, I'm a sucker for the whole series, and it's nice to escape for a while into a world of druids and elven magic.  I don't read them because I know they're going to change my life, I read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13321307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The set up for the other 3 heritage series books, this one isn't quite as stellar, but still a really good read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was purely by chance that I tumbled upon this book at an airport and what a book this turned out to be. This was my first book from Terry Brooks, and in its wake lays my hunger for more books of the series. It is spellbinding. I didn’t realize when the 500 pages slipped away. He is one of the g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59512776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Building on the world of Shannara from the author's earlier works, this one is better than before. By &quot;better&quot;, I mean just relative to previous works. It's a nice read, particularly for readers who are new to the fantasy genre, but it isn't a great read. The pacing can be slow at times, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73855979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this story well enough, it's just not pulling me in.  Par's Wishsong ability is interesting and I like the charge put before him, by Allanon, to recover the Sword of Shannara. It just seems a little plodding.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sci-fi stuff that filled my childhood. Big fan of the Shannara series as a kid.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always excellent A+ they do not get any better than Terry Brokks and his Shannara series (s)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Shannara books.]]></body>
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    <review id="63234319">
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    <body><![CDATA[So long ago I don't remember well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't start the Heritage of Shannara series unless you have <br/>1. read the first three books<br/>2. have a lot of time on your hands<br/>3. don't have anything better to read<br/>4. want to finish all of the Shannara books<br/>5. are willing to read four books for the most disappointing endin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2034181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is all I've read of Brooks' repertoire.  I read this back in seventh grade, when I was getting into fantastic fiction and trying authors out.  I'd already read the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends, and used these as a benchmark for all other fantasy; back then, they were my favorites.  Scions...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12809393">more...</a>]]></body>
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