(OT) Facile fantasy (was: Dumbledore the not-necessarily-good (Far too long))

[Ebony Elizabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 1291

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> 
> [<OT:>  I also think the most devastating comment I ever heard 
about a fantasy
> novel was that it was "too derivative of Terry Brooks' _Sword of 
Shannara_.
> 
> Having said that, I'll add that I've never read _Sword of Shannara_ 
myself, and
> I was surprised to discover that I liked his Magic Kingdom for Sale 
series,
> mostly because I was vastly amused by his depiction of an attorney 
from our
> world who becomes the king of a fantasy world--and yet he STILL 
KEEPS THINKING
> LIKE AN ATTORNEY.  As a woman who is married to an attorney and 
pays the
> mortgage by working as a legal secretary, I found it to be a lot of 
fun, despite
> all the cliches. </OT:>]

I think I'll check this one out, Peg.  I read the Shannara series as 
a young teen, but never picked up another Brooks novel once I moved 
on to other genres.

Right now I have a "to buy/to check out" list two feet long from this 
mailing list alone.  Stop recommending books, you guys.  :)

Ebony AKA AngieJ (waiting for her movers and getting her last e-mails 
in before she packs up the computer)