I reread Shannara recently, it is okay, but I'm pretty lenient, and well ontouch with my inner 14 year old, though.
I like the post apocalytptic elements, and I don't read much high fantasy, these days, so I probably wasn't as predisposed to find it tired as some, although I can see how that could easily be the case. I will say that Vs. Jordan or GRRM,,at least some shit happens on a fairly regular basis. I found the lack of child-rape and hundreds of pages devoted to Tar Valon kitchen politics, refreshing.
I hadn't heard there would be a TV show, because I intentionally keep my head under a rock.
I fisnished up both Jack Kirby's Omac and The Demon over the last couple of nights; I'm rereading Simonson's Thor; reading The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, and listening to Oliver Twist (also by Dickens) while I draw. The latter makes me cry.