You can really tell his epic fantasy tendencies here, as the book is a mix of sci-fi and fantasy throughout, which I enjoyed. I do think he could have probably sped City of Golden Shadow on a bit, but life’s about the journey and so is this series.
My mom has never been able to make it past the first 100 pages of The Dragonbone Chair because she finds the level of description boring, but it fully engages me, so your mileage will vary depending on your desire to be immersed. If you don’t like long books that take their time, he’s not the writer for you.
The Dragonbone Chair is my favorite fantasy series for the same reason - I love his ability to really build a world and make it seem effortless. Williams is clearly setting up a quest narrative and spends 1000 pages maneuvering everyone together, but he’s such a good writer that I enjoyed the whole thing immensely. This is a long and complex book with a lot of characters, and it’s the setup for the next three books in the series. !Xabbu helps Renie try to rescue her little brother from a misadventure in a VR club, but her brother ends up in a coma and Renie becomes determined to try to figure out why he’s not waking up and what the mysterious golden city she saw has to do with it. He is basically the last remaining Bushman and serves as a way for Williams to explain the history and theory of VR to the reader without just narrating straight at us. Renie is a teacher at a university in South Africa when she meets !Xabbu, a Bushman who has come to the city to learn. With a long train commute and a sudden urge to read Tad Williams, the stars aligned.Ĭity of Golden Shadow is set in a near-future world dominated by virtual reality. At this pace, I should be done in about 39 more years, so there’s hope! I think this really is a case of a book needing to be read at the right time. Urn:oclc:849880561 Scandate 20110602040713 Scanner carrying this book around from apartment to apartment for thirteen years, I finally made it beyond the first hundred pages and have finished the first book in the quartet. OL15863681W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.10 Pages 794 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1857236041 Urn:lcp:cityofgoldenshad00will:epub:1716e38f-e723-4036-b726-b0b2f68c8463 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cityofgoldenshad00will Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6xw59h61 Isbn 0886777100ģ5801278 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:40:50 Boxid IA138612 Boxid_2 CH111901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor
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