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A review by outcolder
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
3.0
Satisfying: lots of full characters, magic has a terrible price, unusual monsters. The faeries are more Irish than Tolkein. It starts off like a lighter [b:Titus Groan|39063|Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)|Mervyn Peake|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327871204s/39063.jpg|3250394] but after a hundred pages or so begins to go more high-fantasy epic. I like fantasy novels that make me want to work out more, and this isn't exactly Conan but there is more than enough physically demanding adventure. Female characters seldom appear and when they finally do, they tend to depart just as we were getting to know them. Another minus for me are the Rimmersmen, who are so damn Norse... he's got a lot of cultures and nations on his continent and it's all typical fantasy middle ages, and yeah, those guys are supposed to be like Italy or something, and others are harder to pin down exactly what inspired them, but the Rimmersmen are just so damn Viking... he could have made them a little more different.
The edition I read has a quote on the back from Xignals... the Waldenbooks advertorial for SF fans... wow. Remember hanging out in Waldenbooks and reading SF and fantasy for hours?
The main character is probably not going to prove to secretly be the rightful heir, I hope, and no one is calling him the chosen one or anything goofy like that, he doesn't appear in ancient prophecies... but we are constantly reminded that he has "been marked" and I fell like I have been marked... this freaking brick ate up weeks of my life. And now I have to read at least two more to find out how all it ends? Argh! Damn book marked me! Doomed to follow it to the end!
The edition I read has a quote on the back from Xignals... the Waldenbooks advertorial for SF fans... wow. Remember hanging out in Waldenbooks and reading SF and fantasy for hours?
The main character is probably not going to prove to secretly be the rightful heir, I hope, and no one is calling him the chosen one or anything goofy like that, he doesn't appear in ancient prophecies... but we are constantly reminded that he has "been marked" and I fell like I have been marked... this freaking brick ate up weeks of my life. And now I have to read at least two more to find out how all it ends? Argh! Damn book marked me! Doomed to follow it to the end!