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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 4459139" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI have to admit I don't see the allure of Terry Brook's either. I enjoyed his Sword of Shannara as a one time read, but it doesn't stand out as memorable. Fantasy doesn't seem to have alot of what I'm looking for in a book. Too many predictable characters in predictable situations reacting in a predictable way.I imagine part of the reason is that there are too many fantasy series carried on through endless iterations. I'm pretty sure Lord of the Rings would have become uninteresting if Tolkien kept on writing in the same world.I want to get in and get out of a world. I don't want to wander endlessly in it until it becomes as mundane as the real world. So many fantasy authors end doing just what I don't want to read. I read a ton of Conan stories and they were great, but after a while you can only take so much of the same thing over and over again. Some of these fantasy authors don't know when to stop, and we have only fantasy readers to blame for buying the most recent work of such and such author set in such and such world.I'm just glad there are discussions like this to fliter through the dirt and find the gems. I don't like sifting through dirt to find a gem.</blockquote>