The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Jul 29, 2007 Duchess rated it liked it

Out of all of Williams books that I have read this one has not been the best. It got off slow - which I was expecting, I remember the 1st of the Otherland series was excrutiatingly slow, in part due to the introductions to the stories of the vast amount of characters involved in the story.

The first of MS&T is also quite slow but not in the same way, unfortunately. Its just slow plain & simple. I don't find the characters (particularly Simon) nearly as interesting as the characters Williams has c ...more

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Dec 02, 2007 J.M. Brister rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A Review of The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

Rating: Four Stars

Edition: Hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams is the first in the four book Memory, Sorrow, Thorn fantasy series (okay, this series is SORT of a four book series). I've been through this series twice now, and I like it better the second time around. This is an overall solid fantasy series and is a good choice for readers who don't want to read a ten plus book fantasy series.

This is the slowest book in the ...more

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Jun 18, 2007 William rated it really liked it

As far as fantasy goes, this is a pretty stellar book (and trilogy). There's nothing mind-blowing here, it's just a well crafted, lovingly written epic. William's prose is fluid and graceful, and Simon is one of my favorite fantasy characters ever. I first read this in middle school, and I just re-read the trilogy recently. I curled up with it on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Felt like a kid again. ...more

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