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MST does subvert a few tropes and has some strong points. Legolas Send a noteboard - 04/06/2010 10:25:40 PM
His standalone Fantasy novel is fun to an extent, but I found MST terribly formulaic, derivative and boring and never got past the first book (even though I bought all the trilogy at once). Same for his more recent Fantasy series, I abandonned it after the first book.


Probably not enough to get you to force your way through it, but it does get more interesting later on imho. The protagonist isn't all that, true, and there certainly are some massive clichés, but there's a number of more interesting secondary characters, and things don't play out as predictably as you might expect from the first book.

I agree that Otherland is better, though.
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Otherworld by Tad Williams -no spoilers dacole - 04/06/2010 01:53:04 PM 550 Views
Loved the Otherland series from beginning to end ironclad - 04/06/2010 02:08:02 PM 408 Views
Re: Loved the Otherland series from beginning to end ajah - 06/06/2010 08:28:05 AM 339 Views
Re: Loved the Otherland series from beginning to end dacole - 06/06/2010 10:05:43 AM 376 Views
Oh I definitely wanna check out the Shadow-series sometime soon ironclad - 06/06/2010 04:00:45 PM 340 Views
Re: Oh I definitely wanna check out the Shadow-series sometime soon ajah - 07/06/2010 06:23:55 AM 348 Views
At least the man always delivers in time ironclad - 07/06/2010 08:38:09 AM 361 Views
That's a bit debatable. Legolas - 04/06/2010 02:24:57 PM 395 Views
I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny random thoughts - 04/06/2010 06:00:50 PM 361 Views
Re: I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny dacole - 06/06/2010 10:08:21 AM 342 Views
Re: I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny ajah - 07/06/2010 06:26:45 AM 389 Views
Pretty much.... DomA - 04/06/2010 09:45:13 PM 397 Views
MST does subvert a few tropes and has some strong points. Legolas - 04/06/2010 10:25:40 PM 402 Views
Yeah. I recently finished MST for the first time Chas - 05/06/2010 01:34:47 AM 391 Views
Re: MST does subvert a few tropes and has some strong points. DomA - 06/06/2010 01:10:49 AM 367 Views
Re: MST does subvert a few tropes and has some strong points. dacole - 06/06/2010 10:11:55 AM 423 Views
Re: Otherworld by Tad Williams -no spoilers ajah - 06/06/2010 08:25:02 AM 386 Views
Re: Otherworld by Tad Williams -no spoilers dacole - 06/06/2010 10:14:16 AM 321 Views
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