The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

Deep dark forests and elves and castles and butter tea. Fantasy, deep, dark, unapologetic fantasy!!!

This book is dense, but well worth the read for any fantasy fans. Tad Williams creates a world so in depth that it is surpassed in scope only by Tolkien.

This begins an outstanding fantasy series. While it is in some ways tolkeinesque, it does not feel like the minor rehashing of tolkein's plot that comprises some other fantasy series. It also incorporates some of the feel of the Arthurian legends, perhaps a bit more obviously.

If you can get over a slowish start you will be sucked into a spellbinding series of Fantasy books that are well worth the read. Among my favourite series.

Abolutely awesome!!!

keeps you busy for a while (4 books, thousands of pages), but a wonderfully created other world; I nearly believed it winter when it was high summer in real...

This is my absolute favorite trilogy of all time. Tad did a WONDERFUL job. The characters are so full and vibrant and the story actually has a great ending and he didn't let the series drag on and on and on like some of the others I've began at the same time and lost interest in after 20 million books. This is worth every minute. I've read and re-read this book dozens of times. Actually have...more

This is my absolute favorite trilogy of all time. Tad did a WONDERFUL job. The characters are so full and vibrant and the story actually has a great ending and he didn't let the series drag on and on and on like some of the others I've began at the same time and lost interest in after 20 million books. This is worth every minute. I've read and re-read this book dozens of times. Actually have just recently started reading the trilogy again.   hide

I thoroughly enjoyed Tad Williams' vivid descriptions of otherworldly places and characters. Yes, it is lengthy, but beautifully written!

This is the first book in one of my all time favorite trilogies. I loved this more than Lord of the Rings!