I’ve actually had a couple topics I wanted to talk about, but my desire to post anything online, here or elsewhere, waned dramatically this month. One of those topics had to do with Del Rey finally publishing mass market paperback editions of the last two books in Terry Brooks’ High Druid of Shannara trilogy. I [...]
High Druid trade paperbacks
Filed under Soapbox on October 30, 2007
Tagged: Del Rey, Shannara, Terry Brooks
15 Things about books and me
Filed under Trivia on December 15, 2005
Tagged: Bible, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, memes, Narnia, Robert Jordan, Shannara, Star Wars, Terry Brooks, Wheel of Time
I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical. 1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through [...]
Who hasn’t ripped off Tolkien
Filed under Soapbox on August 26, 2004
Tagged: Lord of the Rings, Shannara, Terry Brooks, Tolkien
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Terry Brooks from his critics is that he borrowed liberally from Tolkien’s work. It’s not hard to see the similarities between certain characters and plot devices as I’m reading through Sword of Shannara. Terry readily admits that Tolkien is his biggest influence. His sister gave him Lord [...]
Learning the process
Filed under Writing Journal on August 25, 2004
Tagged: Shannara, Terry Brooks
I read an interview with Terry Brooks last week, done by his publisher Del Rey to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of The Sword of Shannara (back in 2002). The last question, and more importantly Terry’s answer, struck me the most: DR: Okay, last question: the first two volumes in the Voyage of the Jerle [...]
My perspective
Filed under Writing Journal on August 24, 2004
Tagged: perspective, Terry Brooks, third person
I mentioned yesterday that I was re-reading The Sword of Shannara. There were a couple things that immediately jumped out at me about the storytelling, one of which I want to talk about today (I’ll save the other for later). Brooks uses a third person, omniscient perspective in writing this book. I don’t know if [...]
