The Druid of Shannara

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Summary: a disappointing, mediocre, recycled junk from Terry Brooks
Review: Terry Brooks should win the RECYCLING award, should such prize be invented. There isn't one ounce of originality in this book. All characters, creatures, locales, and plots are lukewarm rehash of his earlier (and FAR superior) efforts. Success breeds sloth, I suppose.

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Summary: The best of Heritage
Review: I found this book to be the best of the Heritage series, followed by Elfstones. The imagery invoked was imaginative and the characters were likable, except for Pe Ell, who is one of those love-to-hate type characters.

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Summary: The second book in "The heritage of Shannara"
Review: This is the best book in these books of Terry Brooks. They are well made and lets you enter a magical world that you don't want to get out from. Sounds dangerous perhaps, but it isn't.
Put Enya in the cd player and dream away in the magical, but lifeless, stoney world the party have to travel through.

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Summary: Another future classic from Terry Brooks.
Review: Northwest author Terry Brooks throws another strike with the second installment in his Heritage of Shannara series. Characters were deep and emotional, and I especially enjoyed Brooks' ability to constantly take the reader into the mind of each of them to give him/her a first-hand perspective of how each of the characters thinks and feels. I think that Brooks is the first truly great fantasy author of our time, and his books are a must read for anyone interested in the fantasy genre. I also liked how Brooks did not limit himself to what he saw on the map in the front of the book. The one problem I had with the book was the slight lack of plot turns. Having read all of Brooks' previous titles, I found the way the storyline moved to be a little too much like some of his previous work. I would reccomend this book to anyone interested in a fast-paced, fun adventure book

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Summary: So You Don't Have Enough Time to Read Eh?
Review: I love to read, and yet sometimes I find that I don't have enough time to or I can't because of certain circumstances. Well then, listen to the cassettes! They are done in a fair fashion and you can 'read' this fabolous book of adventure and quest while you are walking to work, school, or on the bus in your car, etc. It is the next best thing to reading it and if you love Terry Brooks then what are you waiting for? Tales of epic struggle, adventure, and quest awaits to be heard by you

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Summary: The half-mark of an amazing history
Review: This books gives depth to the lurky areas of the Four Land's past, down to the beginnning of time itself. I for one, enjoyed it thoroughly. It is defiantly a good continuation book and keeps you constantly thinking of when the dark Pe Ell is going to do, what will happen to Quickening, and how it is going to all end. You will find yourself feeling the heart break or sorrow of a character to the hope of another. But most of all, it leaves you thinking: "Now what?" at the end. You also will feel somewhat prideful of the heros but you have to read the Talismans of Shannara to find out how it all ends

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Summary: One of Brooks' best books yet!
Review: For those of you who are familiar with the quality of Terry Brooks' writing already, this review will come as little or no surprise to you. I've just finished it, and am already curious as to what's going to happen in the next book. It is the second book in a series of four entitled "The Scions of Shannara," based on the exploits of a group of well-developed characters in the land of Shannara. These adventures take place after those chronicled in the original "Shannara Trilogy", also listed at Amazon.com. In all, I've found that Brook's writing hasn't diminished in the least over time. In fact, it is my firm belief that it just keeps getting better. The Druid of Shannara is his best book yet, and I know that I can expect many more wonderful stories from the mind of Terry Brooks.

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Summary: one of the best
Review: this book is one of the best shannara books. it is probably second only to talismans of shannara. Druid of Shannara is an excellent adventure/fantasy novel with plenty of suspense near the ending. The book is finished in a very unpredictable fashion and it adds to the excitement of reading the book. You don't expect the ending to be the way it is. If you skip reading this book, you are really missing out.

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Summary: The Druid of Shannara
Review: this book is one of the best shannara books. it is probably second only to talismans of shannara. Druid of Shannara is an excellent adventure/fantasy novel with plenty of suspense near the ending. The book is finished in a very unpredictable fashion and it adds to the excitement of reading the book. You don't expect the ending to be the way it is. If you skip reading this book, you are really missing out.

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Summary: Another Brooks masterpiece
Review: I finished reading Druid about 3 days ago, and it was just plain awesome. Scions, which I read probably a week ago, was far less engaging and uninteresting for much of the book. I liked Druid because it has much more action, drama, and is just overall more complete feeling. Walker Boh starts to finally be interesting, Morgan Leah matures, and Pe Ell and Quickening make excellent additional characters to the world of Shannara. Difficulties, conflicts, triumph, love, victory and loss, all of these can be found in Druid of Shannara and make for an excellent book. I had to give it a 4 out of 5 however because I found Elfstones to be far better, so to give Druid a 5 would be an injustice to Elfstones. So, though this book is awesome, you need to read Scions first for it to make much sense. If you didn't like Scions much, try Druid anyway, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.