You’re not supposed to do it, but judging a book by its cover is a skill we all employ from time to time; whether we’re standing in a busy Barnes & Noble or squinting at a screen full of thumbnails, a book’s cover is often all you have time to peruse. Sure, in a perfect […]
The news that MTV was adapting Terry Brooks’ The Elfstones of Shannara into a television series was par for the course for one of the most successful fantasy series in history, currently comprised of close to 30 novels.
J.R.R. Tolkien might have introduced me to fantasy, and Terry Brooks made me fall in love with the genre’s possibility for wonder and imagination. As an 11-year-old, I was awed by Frodo’s journey, frightened by the Orc armies laying waste to Minas Tirith, and delighted by the Ents—but it was The Sword of Shannara, Brooks’ love-letter to […]