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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>The world of Shannara (the Four Lands) is reminescient of Tolkien's LOTR, not in style but in the classic struggle of good vs. evil on an epic scale.  An easier read than Tolkien, Shannara has it's merits.  Loveable characters, mysterious character, characters to despise.  A quest and all it's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36307177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great trilogy. The Sword of Shanarra I actully read back in 1979/1980 time frame and I have to say it drew me into the story just like it did 30 years ago.<br/> <br/>This time I noticed that Terry Brooks seemed to like the word awesome alot. I didn't notice this so much the first time I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48338251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>The Sword of Shannara</u> practically screams for a copyright infringement suit from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/656983.J_R_R_Tolkien" title="J.R.R. Tolkien">J.R.R Tolkien</a>'s <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">Lord of the Rings</a></u> trilogy.  So familiar was the story and the characters I find it tempting to interchange the character names, but in the event you have read the mentioned books I will trust that you ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79586758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this collection to finish the series after having read Sword.  I read Elfstones and, while I thoroughly enjoyed it, decided that I needed to take a break before reading Wishsong.  While Elfstones was a good read and much better written than Sword, it had many of the same plot devices and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77781588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Difficult one this - I read these books as a teenager and really liked them. It's actually 3 books, and the first - the sword of Shannara is really just a thinly veiled knock off of Lord of the Rings. Re-reading it as an adult was a bit of a disappointment to be honest, but the next book (Elf stones...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43701152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow - it is finished!  Finally!  I have been reading this book for so long that it has become a constant friend to me and I would have to say I'm a bit, yes, a bit, sad that it is finished.  This is the first book of Brooks' that I have read.  The awesome characters and great descriptions of them ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51757622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is like a weird acid-tripped reader's digest version of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a>. Replace &quot;The Ring&quot; with a sword, the wizard with a druid, and hobbits with humans and apparently that is enough to not get sued for copyright infringement. <br/><br/>On the other hand, even though the plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28576730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book 3 stars as the book itself covers the entire Sword of Shannara trilogy. Overall it rates a 3, even though some of the books were better than others within the series. It borrows way too much from Tolkien and I have had quite a few people tell me that they stopped reading after but a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26475455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going to have to be completely honest here... I have only read one book in this series in its entirety, and that one, the second, I think is the best.  It's fortunate, then, that the books are only loosely connected and it's not necessary to have knowlege of earlier ones to start on any book you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9691068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These were among the first fantasy novels I read (that were targeted to an adult audience). I really liked them, and they are full of interesting ideas. However, some of the characters are a bit shallow, and sometimes the story is a little weighed down by unnecessary detail. Overall, I enjoyed them.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38670155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first started this book I was somewhat annoyed at how similar it was to Lord of the Rings. It also seemed to bridge the gap between LOTR and The Inheritance Cycle (Chris Paolini's Eragon, etc). It did get better as the trilogy moved on, but it seemed the plots were all quite similar. Once I s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45989014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read a few years ago.  I remember it being a suspenseful story.  Easier to read than Tolkien- with just as good a story.  It continued to read other Terry Brooks books because of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[two brothers are suddenly thrust into a quest when the forbidding allanon appears with a gift and a warning.  the gift is for shea, a half-elf who never knew the significance of his parentage.   he and his brother flick flee with allanon's gift--a bag of elfstones--from the evil presence that is sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5658562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is great for guys, especially.  It includes lots of action in a well constructed world.  NOT funny like some of Brooks.  My boys read all of the books for awhile, and there are LOTS.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chris Casler got me into this series. It's awesome, and I've enjoyed all of them so far. Keep in mind if you're going to start it that it's a very long series. This is only the beginning.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 08 19:52:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&lt;Just picked this up as a Kindle book (8 bucks!) and mean to re-read them asap. It's been ages since I read volumes two and three.&gt;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in junior high, I think.  A respectable fantasy series, though not Tolkein or Donaldson.  I've forgotten much of it, I'm afraid.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J.R.R Tolkien Terry Brooks is not, but as far as fantasies go this trilogy is top notch.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sounds familiar, can't remember]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm trying to get through it. Right now, it's like eating your vegetables. But it's one of the big ones in the field so I should at least know it. I'm on page 188 as of 3/6 and there's been ONE woman mentioned - a beautiful elf girl far away from the action who is patiently waiting for her man to co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48502401">more...</a>]]></body>
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