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Well Im a Brooks fan, met him, been at a store when he's done a reading and signing(Signed the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara for me) and I know there are others who are not but to say hes done nothing original is just wrong. From the very start he laid down the idea that this magic world he created had come after a very different world had collapsed in ruin.
Then just in the last few years he actually took a separate world he created- the world(set in our world) in the books of The Word and Void series- and destroyed it. That world became the seed for the Shannara world.
Who else has done that? Pulled two different series together like that? Stephen King has done it by having characters from other books appear in the Gunslinger series but i cant think of others.
I have always had a fondness for the Landover books as well, enjoyed reading them very much.
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