Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:25:20 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Terry Brooks at Rockiville B&N
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 8/28/2007 11:36 AM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>This from the B&N in Rockville:
>
>"We're excited to announce that sci-fi/fantasy author Terry Brooks is
>coming to Barnes & Noble in Rockville on September 4th at 7:30 p.m. to
>discuss and sign his newest book, "The Elves of Cintra."  This is the
>second book of the Genesis of Shannara trilogy and follows a reader
>favorite, "Armageddon's Children."
>
>Barnes & Noble is located at 12089 Rockville Pike at the Montrose
>Crossing Shopping Center."

Yawn.  I haven't read anything he's written since that Tolkien
rip-off, "The Sword of Shanara".  It's one thing to borrow a rough
plot outline, but something else to swipe the thing pretty much
entirely and only change the character names.

-- Mike B.
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