OT...great books

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by dumbluck:
/me worships before the alter of Tad Williams.

"All hail Tad! All hail Tad!"


Seriously, check out his Otherland series. And I liked his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series even better!

edit: he is, however, NOT a light read...... We still joke with him about how he wrote a book that was so big, the publishers physically couldn't fit it into a paperback. They had to split it up into 2 parts...

I finished the Otherland series not too long ago, and although I loved his Memory, Sorry and Thorn trilogy (quadrology if you bought it in paperback), I just couldn't like this series. Maybe it was too long, maybe it was because the explanations were too long in coming, I don't know. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did his other previous books. I just can't recommend it.

Another series of books I wouldn't recommend is the Skylark books by E.E. "Doc" Smith. I think mostly it's because of the language and grammer being used. The books were written mostly in the 40's and 50's, and it's very hard to read compared to today's fiction. I'm into the fourth and Last book, and I'm contemplating about whether I should finish it or not. I got a whole bunch of other books I could read, and in faster time too.