Well, to find the truth about magic and saving the world. They have to bring back magic to save the world, but they have to find the Sword of Shannara to bring back magic. When you get a good plot idea like 'recovering a magic sword' use it as often as possible.right?)Īnyway, did you get that? It's sort of a multilevel quest. (Hey just because that's how this whole series started don't knock it. magic is outlawed and practically gone (funny how often that seems to happen in 'fantasy worlds') Our hero(es) are tasked with saving the world, by bringing magic back, by finding the Sword of Shannara. The book is a return to the world of the original Shannara trilogy though much later. I have the audio I got from OverDrive and the gain is so low that with the recording turned up all the way, my speakers turned up all the way and going into my computers audio controls and jacking them up all the way I could barely hear it. I need a way to rate the book and then a way to separately rate the edition I got. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre.

He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy.

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