To the scions of Shannara have fallen three tasks: Par Ohmsford has recovered the fabled Sword of Shannara. This he has accomplished but the Federation's Chief...
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Advantages: a really good story Disadvantages: hate the carisman
...The druid of shannara continues from Terry brook's book before this The scions of shannara which are both part of the heritage series There are two other books after this The Elf queen of shannara and finally first king of shannara.
For those who have not read the first the book in the series scions of shannara I will give you a quick recap.After using magic elfstones the magic has been passed down the bloodline.A couple of generation's later three family members of Olmsford Walker Boh,Par and Wren have been passed a quest a by a shade(dead person) named Allanon to do three quests.
Walker boh has been intrusted to bring back the druid castle named Paranor.
Par has the quest of finding The sword of shannara.
While Wren has been asked to bring back the elves.
Story begins
The King of the Silver river a guardian of nature...
Advantages: Unbelievably mellow Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste
...As I have said before in a review, Medwyn Goodall is one of my favourite composers of "new age" music. I find his music very relaxing and inspirational.
Druid is the first CD of a trilogy set. The second is Merlin (see my previous review) and the third is Excalibur. The set is released on the New World Company label and is available in most new age shops or on their website www.newworldmusic.com and is also available on Amazon, who incidentally have samples of each track to listen to. Unfortunately, you only get about the first 30 seconds of each track which whilst it gives a taster, is a bit inadequate, particularly on the first track.
There are five tracks in all on the album with a combined run time of approximately 42 minutes. It is a fairly short album but by the end of it you are so relaxed you are virtually horizontal, if...
Advantages: A reminder of the old days.... Disadvantages: A reminder of the old days....
...A game from a relatively new software house, CDV, The Mystery of the Druids is (I think) the first in their ?House of Tales? series. You take the role of Brent Halligan (smell that testosterone!!!!), maverick Scotland Yard detective, a loser but chosen to investigate a series of high profile ritual killings taking place in London. Working with a young (attractive, lithe, female) scientist he (eventually) travels back in time to bring these dastardly killings to an end ? hence the tag line, ..end the ritual before it begins.
Let?s start with the plus points ? you won?t need a state of the art PC to play:
The Technical Bit
This game will run on a minimum spec as detailed below:
Pentium 200Mhz
Windows 95/98/2000/ME
32MB RAM
2MB VGA Video card (with or without 3D support)
Approximately 200MB hard drive space
Direct X 8...
...Who were the Druids? This group, surrounded by legend and folklore for millenia, continues to fascinate moderns, perhaps because of the enigmatic character of their identity. Probably most of the popular images of Druids -- of being tree worshippers, of being itinerant poets and prophets, of being priests who practiced human sacrifice and built strange structures such as Stonehenge -- are generally misperceptions, perhaps even deliberate 'character assassination' attempts by the victorious political and religious authorities that moved into Druid areas. Indeed, the bulk of Classical information on the Druids comes from anti-Druid writings of the Romans.
'By the time the Celts themselves came to commit their knowledge to writing, they had become Christianised and, not surprisingly, the Druids continued to get "a bad press". Their...
Advantages: Very Academic. Some provocative theories. Knowledgeable author. Disadvantages: Dry. Historical knowledge required. Author secretly a timetravelling Roman. Some outdated ideas.
...Druids and Druidism, by T.D. Kendrick, is one archaeologist's impression and shrewd speculation about the Ancient Druids, based on his considerable experience in the field. I should primarily warn all potential readers that it was written in the 1920s, and it is pretty hard going, but I'm sure you know enough Latin so you don't need to worry about him never giving translations after his quips, quotes and jokes? right? Seriously though, I would only recommend this book to those who have some background in European prehistory (don't worry too much about languages, you'll be able to get through this with no Latin, you'll just get a bit annoyed?)
The 211 page book is written in five chapters, each of which focusing on a particular topic and in which the author states all that he feels he knows about the topic, and then goes on to suggest...
Advantages: Makes druids slightly interesting Disadvantages: Impossibly hard.
...When I first heard of this game, it didn't sound too appealing. Usually druids means to me, religious monk like people in white gowns. The thing is, people haven't actually studied druids in enough depth to realize they're quite deadly when given the right back story. So the title may be a bad one, but hang on, for the plot picks up as the story progresses into something very sinister indeed.
---The Plot---
Stonehenge. One thousand years ago. A group of druids are standing round a rock, which has five babies upon it. Slowly one by one, the druids begin to summon up their power, but slowly. The babies lay unaware of what is happening. As the power continues to rise and rise within the druids' ranks, it begins to block the view. A great ball of fire washes over the land. The babies are the only ones left, crying into the night...
Advantages: They make spotty kids with no life happy Disadvantages: They hurt everyone they touch
...sent to you. You're a good person and you think, 'I know. To hell with FlameDruid's ranting - I'll warn my mates.'
So you do. Now we have thirty emails where once there was only one. Then each of your contacts emails their mates, and each of the mates email their mates who email all their mates who email all their mates who email all their mates...
Can we say 'exponential'? The mail servers have to deal with all this extra traffic and can't so the whole Internet slows to a crawl because people were in such a hurry to believe the hoax virus email and warn their mates.
So even though there's no virus the result is the same and businesses are damaged and people are inconvenienced.
Spam
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Advantages: Nice hotel in a brilliant location Disadvantages: Quite expensive.
...The Marriott Druids Glen hotel is a wonderful place to stay when visiting Ireland and I would recommend it to anyone if they are seeking a quiet, peaceful holiday. The location is wonderful, with views of the sea and mountains, it was a dream location and one that I will never forget.
Check-in was simple and easy and all of the staff were friendly and happy to help in whatever way that they could. All of my details were right and I was quickly given my keycard.
The bedrooms were large, modern and clean. The bathroom had the usual toiletries, which were of a good quality, although a couple more would have been good considering it was a 2 Queen bed room sleeping three. The hotel was quiet, and although it appeared as though occupancy rates were high the hotel didn't feel overcrowded or cramped.
The hotel also has a golf course...
Advantages: none Disadvantages: no plot no script no direction no saviour
.... The 'Druids' are then left to run around in white clothes trying to kill him for the cycle. If you are confused think how i feel, but before he could die he had to conceive a child, hence a male rape scene, although he seemed to be enjoying it to me.
The reason for the killing of the alleged Messiah is never fully explained and the choice of the messiah was a big mistake on the casting directors part.
Craig Fairbrass is as wooden as a tree and was extremely out of his depth in this film. Stick to soaps.
To actually portray Druids as mass murderers is completely contradictory to the actually faith of the Druids and I am not surprised that this film was released into silience.
I would definately give this one a miss....
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Review of Darklands
Advantages: Really, really exciting Disadvantages: Another Trilogy - You have to read them all to understand this one
...If you like fantasy and have read 'Jarka Ruus' already - then this one is for you. However, if you haven't read any of Terry Brooks' books you cannot start with this one because it is the second book of a trilogy ('The High Druid of Shannara'), which, in turn, is part of the much longer Shannara series. You could read only this trilogy, which is a complete story in itself, but to completely understand the world of Shannara and the references to earlier persons and events I would advise you to read at least the 'Voyage of the Jerle Shannara' trilogy before you start reading this one.
(I don't want to list all the titles in the series here because sandemp has done that already in his/her excellent review on 'The Sword of Shannara'. If you consider starting out on this epic journey through Shannara, I urge you to read sandemp's review...
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