I'm talking like proper ass pulp shit with some Frank Frazetta ass shit on the cover, like a big Barbarian dude throwing an axe at a sorcerer with a pet giant snake.
I've never actually read any of that stuff but I'm curious what that genres Citizen Kane is.
Shannara is interesting historically because it was one of the first really successful attempts to write a Tolkien style fantasy after LotR was released. Today it reads as LotR fanfic, which it basically is, but it played a very important role in opening up the fantasy genre. I believ the same author also wrote the slapstick "Magic Kingdom for sale: sold!" Series and some modern urban fantasy stories that I remember being good.