We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

in English literature in 1966. Brooks then wrote a four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara. Give me a five hundred page sprawl as an assignment any day.

He writes mainly epic fantasy and has also written two movie novelizations. Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.