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Originally Posted by taosaur
Brooks for me is the paragon of made-to-order commercial fiction. He spun a LotR redux with USA Today prose and nary an original idea into a 30+ year career, which he's continuing with yet another Shannara trilogy.
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You obviously never read the original or, if you did, you went into it buying the hype of it being Lord of the Rings clone. The only resemblances are the quest starter showing up to warn the common person Hero at the start, the bad guy's minions coming for the Hero at their hometown to get things moving, picking up various party members along the way, having a council of war, then setting up a battle to distract the enemy/buy time for the hero, and the Big Bad's works crumbling once their magic was taken away - elements which had already become generic fantasy tropes in the over 20 years between LotR and Shannara. Hell, go read David Eddings' Belgariad for the exact same situation (which bears more resemblance to Shannara than either do to LotR, really).
Of course, I'm still not excited for another Shannara book. He should've ended it and moved on after Wishsong of Shannara - The Heritage of Shannara quartet was mediocre, but wasn't a waste of time to read, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara was meh and not even worth a second read like Heritage was, and High Druid of Shannara a complete mess...