So I just got the
Del Rey Internet Newsletter in my mailbox, and the big promo is for THE ELVES OF CINTRA, the latest in the Shannara series and part of the trilogy that I gather ties the Void books together with the Shannara books. There's an interview in the newsletter, and in it, the King of the Silver River is mentioned
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(Although, heh. I also remember buying Wishsong right before a trip...to camp. In trade paperback. I still have that copy, in fact, very battered at this point.)
I was so excited when the tetrology of sequels came out when I was in college...and I hated them. A lot.
I can't recall if I still have one of the Jerle Shannara prequel books or not. I know I bought it off eBay at one point but I never read it.
If some people *glares* weren't being so prolific producing their own books, I might actually be able to re-read them. As it is: too many books, not enough time! ;)
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And yes, ELFSTONES is, I think, the best of the trilogy. It's heartwrenching, but it wasn't the one that made me cry. :)
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Amberle's decision made me cry. Especially since...okay, maybe I was slow, but it took me several *years* before I grokked all the nuances of it. I think I may have been too young/naive/inexperienced at 13 to really understand it.
(I can't remember if I cried at Allanon's death or not. He was such a bastard in the first two books, I think my opinion was colored by it. OTOH, I wanted to be Brin. But was also 14 at the time. ;)
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"And all the while, the eyes of the Changeling watched him go."
Chilling then, chilling now. And Terry's use of a family lineage to tie novels together, and the effect it had on my OWN writing, cannot be overstated.
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I'm sorry to hear that an author Kit likes seems to have caught the dread Tie-It-All-Together disease, though.
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And thanks for the pointer to the pbray piece about life after trilogies. I posted there. It was, of course, long, lol.
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