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Summary: a book of great wonderment
Review: i think the dragonbone chair is the best trilogy i have read. i am looking forward to reading more on the tales of osten ard and all its characters. ( :
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Summary: Damn Good
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this series from beginning to end. Each book kept getting better and better and To Green Angel Tower Part 2 topped the cake. All the storylines just come together so perfectly. My only complaint is the lame climax. Williams could've done better in the confrontation w/ Storm King. The other people who reviewed this seemed irked about Simon and Miriamele. I personally don't care that they screwed. Anyways, I definitely recommend this book. It ranks easily up with Jordan, and almost to Tolkien. And guess what!! Unlike Wheel of Time, this series is actually finished, so you can read it ALL at once
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Summary: The series is magnificent but the ending disappointing!
Review: I was in love with this series-it was my favorite and still is. All of the intricate plots and emotional struggles helped build a feeling of anticipation within you. It was wonderfully done though a bit tiring at times. The problem is, when I had this gigantic expectation for a huge well-deserved ending to finish off this great epic, I was shocked. All of this story and beauty to be ended and wrapped up by the story of one of the more minor characters. I could not believe that Seoman was rendered unconscious and all the reader got was a long monologue. I felt cheated. There were so many things Williams could have done that I can't even begin to list them. Perhaps I missed the point-which I'm still looking for-but there was an acute feeling that Williams was tired and just wanted to end the story quickly. There are times I find myself working out different plots for Seoman and the people of Osten Ard, imagining different endings that probably would have done the wond! ! erful story more justice. Oh well. The series was still great and is still my favorite-I'll just disregard the ending.
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Summary: Depressed because it is over.....epic fantasy
Review: I would have to say that I am writing this review at the last novel to encompass my feelings of all three. The intial book in this series "The Dragonbone Chair" was indeed a good book and a good place to start, but I thought it was a bit slow and dragged a bit a times too concerned with the development of characters too unimportant. Throughout this epic conglomeration, Williams, at times has so much going on inside his head that he rushes himself and deosn't really explain things. I realize that Green Angel Tower is > 1,000 pages, but I hate it when plots are divulged in the last 4 pages when they could have been slowly released at different times in the book. Overall I would rank this trilogy right up there with Jordan only Tad Williams knows when to quit and doesn't carry the series out for 10 novels like Jordan. This book is one of those that gets better every page you turn and that starts from page one of the first book. Williams has a knack for the dramatic yet his characters are very believable. I didn't care for his Otherland series, but I must say that if he ever goes back to this type of fantasy I will be the first in line.RECOMMENDATION: CLASSIC, MUST READ FOR ALL COLLECTORS
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Summary: Long (of course) but worthwhile
Review: Let me start out by saying that i am usually wary of over-enthusiastic 5-star reviews and angry 1-star reviews - I just don't get much information out of them. So, having read through all those many pages that Williams has put together for us, two things stick out to me: 1.) I highly identify with the characters he has created - which tells me that the way he did this was effective and appealing and, along with a good plot, makes books enjoyable for me. Simply based on character development and plot, I would easily give this book a 5-star rating. however, things are rarely decisively black-or-white and neither is my opinion of this book. Thus, my second comment has to be in regard to the somewhat weak ending. Although I found myself impatient and wanted to find out what would happen next, I also found myself dissappointed. i kept waiting for a climax and suddenly realized that I had just encountered it and read right through it! Perhaps I was trying to tie in the many loose ends that permeate the story toward the end (such as what Rachel's role in all this is). However that may be, it should not have prevented me from experiencing the release of the suspense that Williams worked so hard to built up. As I said, although this took away from my evaluation of the book, I am still left me with a very favorable overall impression. I think the strongest evidence i can provide is simply that I felt a sense of loss once I was done with the book - I wanted to read more about Simon, Miriamele, Jiriki, and the others.
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Summary: An excellent Series
Review: Memory Sorrow and Thorn is the first fantasy series I read. It is still one of my favorite. Tad Wiliams describes a world with patience and consistent improvement. With the final part of To Green Angel Tower he doesn't disappoint. Good fantasy needs a bad guy that is fun to read about. Pyrates is such. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys the style of Lord of the Rings. It is not entirely original like Tolkien's work, but it is creative and entertaining. One can see where Robert Jordan got many of his plot devices. Williams does it first and better.
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Summary: Strange feeling that it wasn¿t quite long enough (SPOILERS)
Review: Tad Williams did a great job with this book and with the series as a whole. The series is admirably written with great characterization & vividly described battle scenes. Also, age-old clichés are either given new and subtle twists or discarder altogether in place of fresh ideas. However there were long stretches that I felt could have been condensed. Did we really need to read about Simon stumbling through underground tunnels yet again with next to nothing happening to him except hunger and thirst (until he encounters Inch, of course)? I found this almost excruciating to read, not just of concern for the character but out of sheer impatience with the story. I don't know how else Williams could have charted Simon's journey to the Hayholt but I wish he could have found another way. The climax was tautly paced and this also was excruciating (in a good way), but the ending, i.e. the defeat of the Storm King wasn't explored enough. The reader is left to provide the details on how the Storm King gets vanquished. However, it's not too much of a stretch and it ultimately comes off as believable. There's a lot to be said for leaving things to the reader's imagination and Williams does that. Lastly - Aedon be praised! - there's an ending. After being hopelessly frustrated with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and despairing of ever seeing a resolution (which is why I'm hesitant to start Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series), it's heartening to see a series that has an ending.
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Summary: Strange feeling that it wasn¿t quite long enough (SPOILERS)
Review: Tad Williams did a great job with this book and with the series as a whole. The series is admirably written with great characterization & vividly described battle scenes. Also, age-old clichés are either given new and subtle twists or discarder altogether in place of fresh ideas. However there were long stretches that I felt could have been condensed. Did we really need to read about Simon stumbling through underground tunnels yet again with next to nothing happening to him except hunger and thirst (until he encounters Inch, of course)? I found this almost excruciating to read, not just of concern for the character but out of sheer impatience with the story. I don't know how else Williams could have charted Simon's journey to the Hayholt but I wish he could have found another way. The climax was tautly paced and this also was excruciating (in a good way), but the ending, i.e. the defeat of the Storm King wasn't explored enough. The reader is left to provide the details on how the Storm King gets vanquished. However, it's not too much of a stretch and it ultimately comes off as believable. There's a lot to be said for leaving things to the reader's imagination and Williams does that. Lastly - Aedon be praised! - there's an ending. After being hopelessly frustrated with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and despairing of ever seeing a resolution (which is why I'm hesitant to start Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series), it's heartening to see a series that has an ending.
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Summary: The end is as good as the beginning
Review: Tad Williams ends his series with a bang. Coming to the end with the final battle with final battle with his undead enemy Simon has a last chance to organize what forces he can find to help combat the oncoming tide of evil. Tad's Books might be a little long but they do finish quite well.
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Summary: The best series in the world
Review: Tad Williams is the best writer in the world! When he talks about castles or Green Angel tower. He describes it so well.
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