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Thelomen Toblerone, on 07 February 2010 - 11:56 PM, said:

I recommend Philip Jose Farmer if you want some mad shit that's very entertaining. One thing I do NOT recommend is Tad Williams, though. God help me I've tried, I've tried several times, to read the Otherland series. Awful, awful stuff. Don't do it.

And yet, and yet, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy was one of the first fantasy series ever to engender a real 'sensawunda' in me. Haven't read it for a long time, so it may have been a happy coming together of my age at the time and the freshness of the writing. But I still remember it with great fondness.

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jitsukerr, on 08 February 2010 - 03:29 PM, said:

Thelomen Toblerone, on 07 February 2010 - 11:56 PM, said:

I recommend Philip Jose Farmer if you want some mad shit that's very entertaining. One thing I do NOT recommend is Tad Williams, though. God help me I've tried, I've tried several times, to read the Otherland series. Awful, awful stuff. Don't do it.

And yet, and yet, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy was one of the first fantasy series ever to engender a real 'sensawunda' in me. Haven't read it for a long time, so it may have been a happy coming together of my age at the time and the freshness of the writing. But I still remember it with great fondness.

I read an except from one of the MS&T books in a fantasy compendium and couldn't really get into it, the pace was really slow.

I read the first Otherland book - was intruiged by the fact that it's set in South Africa in the not so distant future. Lost interest a bit after a while, but pushed through to the finish, didnt pick up the second after

Spoiler

all that happens in a doorstopper worth of a book is to introduce the characters and explain why fantasy stuff is going to happen from then onwards