I finished the Shannara Series (by Terry Brooks) a few months ago and have been looking for books like it but have been unsuccesful. I loved the series and all its aspects. I tried the eye of the worlds first book and didn't enjoy how it got kind of dark for me and didn't really leave me satified. Any suggestions with some short discriptions would be great, thanks!
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Recommending a book like the Shannara Series
- Thread starter Breton88
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Well, I didn't really finish Shannara (vaguely remember them entering a building or something early on in the story), but if you liked that then you definitely want to check out The Lord of the Rings, which Shannara (at least the first book) took a LOT from. Myself, I am not really a LotR fan either. Also, The Eye of the World was dark??? >_> Anyway, from what I know of Shannara, you should like these books.
The Wheel of Time series. ^_^ The first book doesn't really give you an idea of the story to come. Look at it as one long prologue with too much of a LotR influence. The 3 books that follow are really excellent, each one better than the last. After Shadow Rising, a lot of people say that the books fall in quality. They are 100% correct. Personally, I love the developments that happen with book 5 and afterwards even more than the previous 4, but so many chapters (most of them in fact) are just filler with no importance to the main plot. In book 10 CoT, absolutely nothing of importance happens.
So why read them if RJ apparently forgot what the plot was (Tarmon Gaidon) after SR? Thats for you to decide. All I know is that I and many other fans are simply addicted. Oh, and Tarmon Gaidon is coming ^_^-
TGS prologue synopsis
http : //forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,42449.0.html
I got chills when I first read that, and it was just a synopsis with absolutely no spoilers.
Other books I love-
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. About myth and legend and a Wizard? in hiding?. I can't do it justice. Read and see if you like it. Can't wait for the second book coming out this year.
Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. Still reading the first book, and already addicted. Also check out Jim's Dresden series.
The Wheel of Time series. ^_^ The first book doesn't really give you an idea of the story to come. Look at it as one long prologue with too much of a LotR influence. The 3 books that follow are really excellent, each one better than the last. After Shadow Rising, a lot of people say that the books fall in quality. They are 100% correct. Personally, I love the developments that happen with book 5 and afterwards even more than the previous 4, but so many chapters (most of them in fact) are just filler with no importance to the main plot. In book 10 CoT, absolutely nothing of importance happens.
So why read them if RJ apparently forgot what the plot was (Tarmon Gaidon) after SR? Thats for you to decide. All I know is that I and many other fans are simply addicted. Oh, and Tarmon Gaidon is coming ^_^-
TGS prologue synopsis
http : //forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,42449.0.html
I got chills when I first read that, and it was just a synopsis with absolutely no spoilers.
Other books I love-
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. About myth and legend and a Wizard? in hiding?. I can't do it justice. Read and see if you like it. Can't wait for the second book coming out this year.
Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. Still reading the first book, and already addicted. Also check out Jim's Dresden series.
bethanyr32
New Member
Terry Brooks' "Magic Kingdom for Sale" series is quite good, I enjoyed it much more than Shannara. Basically, a widower is discontented with his life, sees an ad in a catalog to buy a Magic Kingdom, buys it, and finds out that it's not exactly what he expected. Things are falling apart, magical creatures are dangerous (go figure), etc.
You could try Weis and Hickman's Deathgate books, although they get a bit dark in places too. The premise is that the world was broken into 4 separate worlds by two superior races who can't stop fighting with each other. Everything will fall apart unless they can fix things somehow. Can't describe it too much more without giving stuff away.
What exactly did you love about Shannara? That would probably help others recommend similar things to you. Magic, other races, quests, fantasy worlds - what caught your interest?
You could try Weis and Hickman's Deathgate books, although they get a bit dark in places too. The premise is that the world was broken into 4 separate worlds by two superior races who can't stop fighting with each other. Everything will fall apart unless they can fix things somehow. Can't describe it too much more without giving stuff away.
What exactly did you love about Shannara? That would probably help others recommend similar things to you. Magic, other races, quests, fantasy worlds - what caught your interest?
what i really liked about it was
-diffrent races
-magic
-fantasy
-adventure
-major battles
-chcts. having and sometimes returning to happy humble lives
-medieval
i just liked all of it very much
and i read The Magical Kingdom for sale series, it was good but i liked the Shanarah series better.
-diffrent races
-magic
-fantasy
-adventure
-major battles
-chcts. having and sometimes returning to happy humble lives
-medieval
i just liked all of it very much
and i read The Magical Kingdom for sale series, it was good but i liked the Shanarah series better.
Phoenixdown
New Member
You would probably like the Corean Chronicles
Taidaishar
New Member
This.
Push through to the second book of the Wheel of Time and you'll be hooked.
Also, I COMPLETELY disagree with the people that said the books fell off in quality after 4 or 5.... or at least, not as substantially as they claim. It's just my opinion, but I think they're reacting to the fact that most of them read the books as they were being released, which means you read it and then have to wait another 2 years for the next part so it seems like not a lot happened. I didn't have that problem, and neither will you. Most of the books are already out! You can read straight through all the books and they all flow together nicely. Besides, by the time you get caught up, the last two books might even be finished.