You've talked about Terry Brooks' Shannara series before, and I've been meaning to read it. But still never got around to it. I will one day, promise.
Did you start on A Song of Ice and Fire yet though? I remember you promising that!
On the note of making movies out of books, that Song of Ice and Fire is going to be turned into a TV series. And not a miniseries, but full seasons where one season will equal one book. And even
then they may have trouble including it all. This one could turn out to be pretty good, and the author promises that it will. The producers are fans of the books apparently, and want to make it very faithful. The author George R R Martin posted about it himself on his
newspage.