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Summary: An epic of staggering proportions...
Review: This epic is indeed one of staggering proportions. Staggering to carry, at a hefty 1083 pages in its hardcover edition. Staggering proportions: so many characters, so little characterization. So much "plot", so little origionality. So many pages, so little worth reading!!The trouble with this series is that Williams has overreached himself. This tries to take on too grand a scale, leaving us frustrated as we skip from subplot to subplot. The characters are like cardboard, with institutionalized reactions and unispired speech. The author is a good one, proved by his well-written TAILCHASER'S SONG, but he has bitten off more than he can chew here. Well I hope for more product from this worthwhile author, perhaps he can take to heart his words "The Bloated Epic" and "The Story That Ate My Life". Guess what? It ate ours, too!!
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Summary: The depth is incredible.
Review: When I started this series, I had no idea what I was getting in to. The sheer amount of content was amazing, but at no time did the series lag. Every scene was needed and I never felt like it was dragging on. I would recommend this book to anyone who has the time to read it...they will enjoy it!
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Summary: Glad I found it.
Review: I have to admit that the reason I even began to read this series was the cover art for this book. It absolutely jumped out and grabbed me at the bookstore. I didn't start with this one, though. I started at the beginning and worked my way up to this marvelous ending to a marvelous story. Having loved the first two books in the series, I couldn't wait to read this one. I was not dissapointed. Rarely have I become so engrossed in a story. I felt every emotion with them. And the rewards at the ending were worth waiting for. This is a wonderful love story; both between a young man and a young woman, and between that girl and her father. I found that part of the story especially sad and moving. It is also a wonderfully told magical tale of good and evil, darkness and light, common valour triumphing over power and oppression. I recommend the entire series to anyone who enjoys seeing the good guys win.
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Summary: Creative in spots, but rather tedious. Cardboard characters.
Review: I picked up the books in this series not expecting a profound experience but simply an enjoyable adventure. The story is good and parts are quite creative, although it borrows heavily from Tolkien (Elves are called Sithi, Hobbits are Trolls, the Sithi are immortals who are dying out and came from a faraway land, lots of Tolkien here.) I think the series would have benefitted from a lot of editing - Williams drags on far too long with many scenes. There characters are rather shallow and sometimes hard to believe. One moment they're intelligent, the next they miss the obvious. I became rather tired of them bursting into tears every ten pages. Nearly every character would freeze in terror when some danger faced them. These would all be fine, but when Williams uses the same reaction for every character and repeats it ad naseum, one grows a little tired of it. One of the other reviews here thought that the best thing about the book was that the depictions of the characters on the covers matched their descriptions in the book. Heh. If it's covers that are important to you, enjoy! Otherwise, spend your time and money on other books. There are many better ones than this.
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Summary: Incredible and just ... indescribably wonderfull
Review: This is THE series ... I just can not describe the beauty of this series ... It is just so well written and put together from the characters to the plot to the emotions of the character. I can not describe how good and well written this series is. Just remember this is NOT lite reading, this is a series with some serious thoughts and imagination that will leave you spell bound and wanting for more... unfortunately, this is a trilogy. I'm hoping for him to go beyond that.
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Summary: This book send you back to time.
Review: A story that tickles your memory.
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Summary: gasp...
Review: That was me letting my breath out after holding it through this entire series. MST brought out a world as real as our own in three short books. I've read that Williams was actually using Europe as his basis for Osten Ard, but I can't see how this world can rival any other. You will come to know and love innocent Simon, beautiful Miriamele, tortured Camaris, and all the other characters that Tad Williams literally brings to life in this cliched (but well wrought) story of good vs. evil
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Summary: Tad Williams: A decidedly brilliant writer
Review: The first thing I would like to say about this series, something which I almost couldn't believe I had found on the science fiction/fantasy bookshelves (especially after the shock I took with the Robert Jordan books) is that . . . and this is really quite amazing . . . the characters on the COVER of the book looked *exactly* like their DESCRIPTIONS *IN* the book! Besides this amazing feat, what struck me most about the whole series was the development of the main character. Williams succeeds wonderfully in absorbing the reader in his realistic depiction of Simon's growth from a clumsy, dream-filled boy to a clumsy, love-struck adolescent to a slightly more mature (but still clumsy) young man. Also, he masterfully transforms the tired old formula of disguising the standard fantasy races by giving them a different name. He imbues these characters with such incredible detail that you barely notice the gimick. Altogether a great read, worth the hours it takes to get through the dictionary-sized tomes
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Summary: The conclusion of one of the best series ever. . .
Review: TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER marks the conclusion to one of the best fantasy series ever. Though a little on the long side, it is well worth the effort to read. If you read the first two books and enjoyed them, then you can't afford to miss this one. If you have not read the first two books, you need to. The characters in the series will grow on you, and you will become fully emersed in Tad William's magical land of Osten-Ard
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Summary: A gigantic (literally) end to a smashing series.
Review: This, the third and final book of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, left breathless. Mr. Williams spins a world to rival the master, and it also competes with Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. If you read the first two, you will love this book. If you haven't, read the first two, THEN you will love this book
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