07-11-2014, 12:55 PM
The thing is, Brooks is not a bad writer per se, but had pretty bad contracts over the 90s and into the 2000s - his editors and publishers always had overproportional influence, and that killed the line. Still, when he's in full command, like with "The First King of Shannara", he does magic with relatively minimalist fantasy.
That not to say that SoS was not a bad book; personally, I am attached to it, because it's the first fantasy book I ever read, aged 9 - but, objectively, yeah, a wonder he got that one even published.
That not to say that SoS was not a bad book; personally, I am attached to it, because it's the first fantasy book I ever read, aged 9 - but, objectively, yeah, a wonder he got that one even published.