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.
and To Green Angel Tower was definitely enjoyable, but the first two are unbelievably tedious.
Otherworld by Tad Williams -no spoilers
- 04/06/2010 01:53:04 PM
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Loved the Otherland series from beginning to end
- 04/06/2010 02:08:02 PM
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Re: Loved the Otherland series from beginning to end
- 06/06/2010 08:28:05 AM
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Oh I definitely wanna check out the Shadow-series sometime soon
- 06/06/2010 04:00:45 PM
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Re: Oh I definitely wanna check out the Shadow-series sometime soon
- 07/06/2010 06:23:55 AM
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I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny
- 04/06/2010 06:00:50 PM
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Re: I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny
- 06/06/2010 10:08:21 AM
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Re: I liked all of them but I don't remember them being that funny
- 07/06/2010 06:26:45 AM
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Pretty much....
- 04/06/2010 09:45:13 PM
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MST does subvert a few tropes and has some strong points.
- 04/06/2010 10:25:40 PM
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Yeah. I recently finished MST for the first time
- 05/06/2010 01:34:47 AM
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