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I was rarely held so captive by a novel...Williams is our Tolkien (Fear )
Epic fantasy you can get lost in for days, not just hours (Locus )
Tad Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is at writing fantasy. Best of all, however, are Williams's well-drawn sympathetic characters . . . (Publishers Weekly )
Epic fantasy you can get lost in for days, not just hours (Locus )
Tad Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is at writing fantasy. Best of all, however, are Williams's well-drawn sympathetic characters . . . (Publishers Weekly )
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Book four of the epic Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, reissued with a stunning new cover.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the fourth and final volume in Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series (started with The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell and To Green Agel Tower: Siege).
Drawn by the will to finally reunite the three magical swords, the various heroes all slowly converge back to the Hayholt for the final and terrible battle against the Storm King, and his allies the High King Elias and his councellor, the red alchemist and priest Pryrates.
Using the legendary knight Sir Camaris as a rallying emblem, Josua conquers Nabban. Enrolling new troups on the way, his army grows steadily bigger and stronger.
Miriamele, accompanied by Simon, has fled from Josua's camp, convinced she can talk her father, the High King, out of his evil deeds. Even though complicity and trust settles, Miriamele is torn between her attraction to Simon and the shame she feels at having let Aspitis touch her.
Compared to the first three books, this final volume is much faster paced. With many reverses in the seemingly helpless situations, unexpected turns as well as treasons and, finally, romance, it is truly "unputdownable"!
And if, like me, you can't get enough of Osten Ard, do not miss Tad Williams's novella, The Burning Man, that you'll find in Robert Silverberg Legends anthology.
And just remember this: Beware of the false messenger...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well here I am some 3000 plus pages from where I started at the conclusion of Memory Sorrow and Thorn. It's been a very enjoyable journey and an important way station in my ongoing mission to catch all the old fantasy classics.
I found this final installment perhaps stuttered a little. A friend of mine told me the story was originally planned as a trilogy, but over shot somewhat. I felt this did show a little as there was not quite enough remaining plot to fill the customary 800 pages, leading to a hint of padding and filler. The first 100 pages were largely devoted to Miriamele and Simons 'love' story then there is a period of the book where a charactor is lost in a maze of underground tunnels, which, for the poor charactor must have seemed never ending, sadly as a reader I felt the same way. This is a bit of a shame as the momentum and urgency brilliantly built in volume 3 is lost.
However this is a small gripe and the authors storytelling skill recovers the dramatic tension very well. He also answers all the questions that are posed throughout the series leaving a very neat and tidy ending, after a fitting climax, that just leaves the door open enough to revisit this world again at a future date.
The joys of the book are its charactors and stories within stories. Camaris is a particulary engaging side plot. The central charactors are all truly individual and believable, the support cast is suitably colourful and memorable and the plot itself is complex and for the main unpredictable. Add to this the ongoing humour and, at times, surprisingly graphic shocks, its a great 'old time' styled fantasy for the purist. No gunpowder, flying machines or steam engines but lots of magic, swords, dragons, elves and underground cities.
If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings, Magician, Thomas Covenant, The Bakers Boy Trilogy and early Wheel of time books chances are you will really enjoy this.
I found this final installment perhaps stuttered a little. A friend of mine told me the story was originally planned as a trilogy, but over shot somewhat. I felt this did show a little as there was not quite enough remaining plot to fill the customary 800 pages, leading to a hint of padding and filler. The first 100 pages were largely devoted to Miriamele and Simons 'love' story then there is a period of the book where a charactor is lost in a maze of underground tunnels, which, for the poor charactor must have seemed never ending, sadly as a reader I felt the same way. This is a bit of a shame as the momentum and urgency brilliantly built in volume 3 is lost.
However this is a small gripe and the authors storytelling skill recovers the dramatic tension very well. He also answers all the questions that are posed throughout the series leaving a very neat and tidy ending, after a fitting climax, that just leaves the door open enough to revisit this world again at a future date.
The joys of the book are its charactors and stories within stories. Camaris is a particulary engaging side plot. The central charactors are all truly individual and believable, the support cast is suitably colourful and memorable and the plot itself is complex and for the main unpredictable. Add to this the ongoing humour and, at times, surprisingly graphic shocks, its a great 'old time' styled fantasy for the purist. No gunpowder, flying machines or steam engines but lots of magic, swords, dragons, elves and underground cities.
If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings, Magician, Thomas Covenant, The Bakers Boy Trilogy and early Wheel of time books chances are you will really enjoy this.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The fourth in this set of books is by far the best. A realistic description is of a Tolkien style epic but including the vital ingredients of religion, sex and humour! Set in a believably complex society, it is basically the story of a kitchen lad who makes good, becomes a knight, fights a dragon, finds a magic sword or two, grows into a tall sexy young man and eventually gets the girl.
Let's face it, the story wouldn't be nearly so satisfying if he didn't.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Storm by Tad Williams
Part of the memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. If you love fantasy such as Lord of the Rings then you won't be disappointed with this. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Peter Farr
A Page Turner
This book is a gripping good read! Hard to put down, then sorry when it is finished!
Published 19 months ago by goddess
My favourite saga - that is saying something
wow. tad williams' brilliant ability to drag a reader into an utterly believable world is amazing, and i could read this saga again and again for days on end without getting bored. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2007 by Eloise Reyne
A magnificent conclucion to a magnificent story
Alas! So the story does have to end! But oh, does it end beautifully! To Green Angel Tower (divided in 2 parts, Siege and Storm) is quite simply magnificent. Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2007 by Thomas C.
Simply Tad WIlliams
I would love to write a separate review for each of his books that I have read but I would ramble on far too long. Read more
Published on 19 May 2006 by L. Parry
Simply Tad WIlliams
I would love to write a separate review for each of his books that I have read but I would ramble on far too long. Read more
Published on 19 May 2006 by L. Parry
Ending as endings should be!
It all ends as well as can be, after the different characters'
circumstances. Although you though you could see the end coming, it was still different from your expectations... Read more
circumstances. Although you though you could see the end coming, it was still different from your expectations... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2005 by B. Jonsson
my god but what an ending!
I first picked up Momory, Sorrow and thorn from my Mum's bookshelf when i was looking for something interesting to read, at first, being ony 15 and not terribly well read i was... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2003 by Alice Smith
ok. but a bit of a disappointment.
I really liked Stone of Farewell (2nd book) but the last two were disappointing. Nothing really happens and the final showdown is a huge anticlimax. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2001
Mundi tells you don't miss it.
This is a great book. The story maby long but you get to know the caracters, what they think and what they feel and more important you can beleve in them if not relate to them. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2000 by gamlingi@li.is
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