Terry Brooks - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Birdland · 05-01-2002, 10:11 PM

What I don't understand is: I read The Sword of Shannara when it first came out in 1977. I thought it was crap then, and I frankly didn't even finish the book. (And it was a expensive, trade paperback edition, to boot!)

Now here it is 25 years later, and people still seem to think it is crap, and yet it is still selling! I'm sure many other fantasy novels have come and gone since then. Why has Terry Brooks been able to make a cottage industry out of this particular series, which is so derivative that it borders on plagerism?

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05-01-2002, 10:11 PM	#1
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	What I don't understand is: I read The Sword of Shannara when it first came out in 1977. I thought it was crap then, and I frankly didn't even finish the book. (And it was a expensive, trade paperback edition, to boot!) Now here it is 25 years later, and people still seem to think it is crap, and yet it is still selling! I'm sure many other fantasy novels have come and gone since then. Why has Terry Brooks been able to make a cottage industry out of this particular series, which is so derivative that it borders on plagerism?