Fantasy Novels Finally Getting their Due

As a big dork, both literally and figuratively, (does this come as a surprise?), I have enjoyed sci-fi/fantasy novels just about forever. With the Potter books, the Narnia books, LOTR, and a few other fantasy series having been adopted with resounding success, we are beginning to see slew of other works being greenlit for production.

We now have Terry Brooks's Shannara series, and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire cycle, in pre-production. Martin's series is possibly the best fantasy ever written, and the fact that HBO is bringing it to the screen makes this even more fantastic, but the Shannara series is not one of my first choices for an adaptation. A lot of what you like as a kid doesn't really hold up well a few years down the road, and the Shannara series is a good example. Great stuff when I was in elementary school, not so great now. Elfstones of Shannara, Faerie Tale, and Druid of Shannara (wacko post-apocalyptic city...WTF?) are the only Brooks novels I would even consider revisiting.

Here are some other fantasy series that have aged poorly:

David Eddings' Belgariad/Mallorean
Anne McCaffrey's Pern series
Everything by Raymond Feist.