Bzzzzzzzzzt!
Read them. Brooks didn't even TRY to disguise having ripped his characters right out of LotR. They were ok, but I never got around to reading the Voyage of the Jerle Shannarra because they just weren't worth it. The Rhapsody series and Wayfarer's Redemption are by FAR superior to Brooks (Rhapsody being the second-best fantasy series I've read). Hell, even the endless and repetitive preaching of Goodkind is more enjoyable, (thank GOD he remembered he's writing a FANTASY series in the Final Three and that the Cold War has been over for 20 years) but even they don't come close to LotR.
Since we're on the classics:
Agreed on Monte Cristo. Also, I LOVED Ivanhoe. The language can be difficult, but well worth the effort.
well of course i read them i would not comment on them if i didnt,
and you are right after the wishsong the rest just didnt cut it for me, seemed like he was just pumpin them out for cash.
how about "The lion of Ireland"? anybody read that? about Brian Boru
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book of Job is very good reading also, and does not sound corny at all, at least not to me.
ya the movie "Count of Monti Cristo" was only "OK" but to be honest the only movie i have ever watched that was worthy of the books were LOTR,
wanna talk about a book they destroyed into a movie was "Battlefield Earth" i was so pissed after watching that movie. waste of two hours, friggen book was something like 1,300 pages took me three days to read it, that was a very good book IMO, HORRIBLE movie.