tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3146984.post1554615708190170372..comments2023-01-04T04:45:38.934-08:00Comments on Deep Sheep: The Sword of ShannaraJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01248905587983891548noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3146984.post-3551033115344772872020-05-10T11:37:18.598-07:002020-05-10T11:37:18.598-07:00I read the first trilogy and then two of the next ...I read the first trilogy and then two of the next series in the early 90s as a young boy. I was very fond of the first few books but grew weary of the books and the world quickly as I read into the next series. I don't know if it was my attention span, or if it was my taste changing over a year, or if it was simply the books getting less engrossing and the story being told being less compelling. I don't know. But I do know what I've always felt that the Tolkien influence was obvious but the accusations of direct copycatting were way over the line and unfair - with such a powerful work of fiction being so fundamental to the coalescence of a genre, how could you ever expect to avoid comparisons when you write a novel about a group on a quest to stop a bad guy? I think Brooks wrote a good first trilogy, at any rate, and I was enthralled by them as a boy. Incidentally, I did not comprehend the post-apocalypse in detail at first, for an embarrassing amount of time. Dungeons and Possumshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998526597448292698noreply@blogger.com