I just started reading The Genesis of Shannara series. (I'm only on Chapter 9 so no spoilers please ;)) I know this community isn't very active, but has anyone else read this book yet? I find it fascinating. I stopped reading for a long time (a few years at least, shocking, even to myself) and trying to catch up on all branches of the Shannara books.
If you wish to discuss any other books, please feel free, I might not have read them yet though :)
Well, it looks like no one's posted in here for a while, so I guess I'm here to change that? Anyway, I run the Shannara fansite The Shannara Files and I've been in the mood to make some wallpapers for it recently (you can find ones I've made already here, though only the last one is even remotely recent). But yeah, I was looking to make some quote-based wallpapers (since there's a lack of high-res Shannara images out there so quotes are easier to do), and I was wondering if anyone had any quotes they liked that they could share? I posted this question on the Terry Brooks forums but no one replied, so I'm forced to think that no one there can apparently come up with a quote they like from one of their favorite authors. :/ I'm hoping the LJ community, however small, will be more useful...? Thanks a lot in advance!
Has anyone read, or started, this yet? Impressions? thoughts? The reviews I've gotten thus far have been less than positive, to put it mildly. I'd love to know what you all think!
Just wanted to drop this community a quick note and say "Hi!". After reading the "Shannara" and "Heritage" series' as a kid I took a bit of a hiatus from reading Terry Brooks. What a mistake! A few weeks a go, I happened to notice the new "Genesis" series at a local Barnes & Noble and knew I had to get back into his work. I just finished the "Word & Void" series (awesome!) and am looking forward to getting into "Genesis". I'm in my last quarter of grad school, which might not leave me a lot of free reading time, but I'll figure it out. I'll also need to read the other books that follow "Heritage" too. I can't wait!
Just FYI, The Elves of Cintra is available signed by Terry Brooks from The Signed Page. You do have to pay full price + $9.95 shipping for a total of $36.90, which is approximately $20 more than if you pre-order through Amazon.
Also, Brooks will be touring the East coast in September, so you might get to see him in person.
I have successfully converted my boyfriend to the wonder of Terry Brooks and he was searching for stuff about the books when he came across this on Wikipedia; The film rights to the book series were optioned in 2007 by Warner Brothers. Dan Farah of Farah Films & Management brought the project into the studio and will produce. The studio is out to directors and plans to be in production by end of 2008.
A search of Dan Farah revealed that he was working on the Elfstones of Shannara. Does anyone else have any more information on this because I'm really confused as to why he would be starting in the middle of the series.
Brooks has released the first chapter of The Elves of Cintra, book two of Genesis of Shannara.
From the newsletter:
Dear Readers,
As you know from reading ARMAGEDDON'S CHILDREN, the ending left you hanging in midair. Literally. Even though I publish on a regular yearly schedule, each book coming out right around the first of September, I realize that in this case I am asking a lot of you to wait an entire year.
So to compensate for the wait and the series of cliffhangers I left you with last September, I decided to offer a post of the first chapter in the next book, THE ELVES OF CINTRA, a little early. While this chapter doesn't resolve everything, it does offer insight into what happened to Hawk and Tessa and what lies ahead for Logan Tom. I appreciate your patience with me on letting this series unfold over three books, and I hope that in the course of your reading you will come to agree with me that segmenting the story as I did was the best approach.
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