This book has been called “Ken Follett’s masterpiece”. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.The first time was in 1998, and his more recent visit to my home town Bonn was in October 2000. I had the pleasure to meet Tad Williams twice when he was touring Germany, introducing his books. Does he ever read books or watch TV? Everything must seem boring to him compared to his own stories… I think it is amazing how full of creativity Tad Williams is. It shows where the Internet might take us all. With Otherland, Tad Williams has created another world as rich in characters, events and fantasies as he did in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, but it is set in the modern world, the 21st century. Sometimes, it is easier to read because there is less background you have to know in order to understand what’s going on.Ĭity of Golden Shadow | River of Blue Fire | Mountain of Black Glass | Sea of Silver Light Although Williams has not done as much “background research” for his books as Tolkien has, the story itself can compete with The Lord of the Rings. This trilogy has often been compared to The Lord of the Rings, and justly so. The Dragonbone Chair | The Stone of Farewell | To Green Angel Tower (Part 1) | To Green Angel Tower (Part 2) Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams.Of all the books I’ve read, only Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams comes close to it. I don’t know if anyone has ever taken so much effort to create languages, letters and a whole history for a book. Tolkienĭo I have to say anything about these books? They’re simply among the best tales ever told. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about these four unlikely characters who come together soon after the government declares a ‘State of Internal Emergency’.Īlmost as good as this book is another novel by the same author: Such a Long Journey. In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, Ishvar and Omprakash Darji, tailors who have been forced from their village into the city, and Maneck Kolah, a young student from a hill-station near the Himalayas, are painfully constructing new lives which become entwined in circumstances no one could have foreseen. Quote from the cover of the British edition:
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