The Sword of Shannara
The words on the cover of the thick tome beckoned. I’m unsure how many times I’d walked past that bookshelf as a child. One day, I stopped and looked, and there it was, the largest paperback book I had seen. The cover revealed a shining sword and a party of adventurers looking in wonder. It was 1982 and I was ten. The Sword of Shannara was my first taste of fantasy fiction. I’d read it repeatedly through high school, and now, after a long respite, I’m reading it again. Wh