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    <body><![CDATA[Let me just start by saying this: the first time I finished this series, I immediately went back and started reading it again. I can't think of any other series that I've done that with.<br/><br/>This is one of Tad Williams' &quot;economy-sized manuscripts,&quot; similar to his fantasy classic <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" title="Memory, Sorrow and Thorn">Memory, Sorrow and Thorn</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14147217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I've read lots of Williams before and thought he was excellent, though I remember specifically avoiding this one because it's sci-fi, not fantasy. I was quite disappointed when it came out, actually, that he switched genres like that when I'd eagerly awaited new installments of Memory, Sorrow,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1206135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tad Williams is really known as a fantasy writer, but this sci-fi series was quite interesting. There are four books in this series and they're pretty mammoth in size, but definitely an interesting read. Lots of virtual reality/parallel world kind of stuff, with some Egyptian mythology thrown in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49196348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what to think of this book. I liked it, but I was confused, so I looked up some reviews on Amazon, and then decided that I didn't like it based on what people said, but then I kept reading, and then I liked it a lot and made my peace with it being just the first part of a four-book seri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44255588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.&quot; -- Tad Williams<br/><br/>One of my favorite modern speculative fiction writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62396631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel, to me, is 780 pages of nothing. With five main characters, there is a lot of running around, random descriptions that seem to me are pretty uneccessary, and a LOT of confusion. When a new chapter starts, there is a tendency of character switching, so you are left with a few pages just tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76629572">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best Sci-Fi Series ever. Basically there's LOTR, then The Baroque Cycle, then Otherland. The concept enables you to have everything, magic and hard science and multiple worlds that make a logical sense.<br/><br/>It delivers on everything The Matrix could not live up to. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read this series every couple of years. I don't like any of Tad William's other books too much (well. they're probably just fine but I only tried reading them after my high-fantasy phase had mostly passed, so it's not really fair for me to judge) but I think that this series is really fantastic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63178348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting series that an acquaintance had recommended to me.  The series starts very slow and is really hard to get into while jumping from character to character who all seem to be unrelated, but once it gets rolling, it gets very interesting.<br/><br/>It has the concept of the Matr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58428875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first of a fantastic science-fiction series.  I love this book, I love this series.  It's a must read for any fan of science fiction.  Most of Tad Williams' works are epic, so you're committing yourself to four very long books-or four parts of one extremely long book (however you want to look at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40727017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Williams' first novel struggles under the weight of the multiple, eventually intersecting, story lines that he has constructed for the series.  The first couple hundred pages are slow going but well worth it.    The series as a whole is an amazing work of fiction and an incredible anticipation of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48665206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review is for the whole Otherland series, because you have to read them all. Now these are LONG books Like 800 pages each, I personally love that, some people might not. Also as in all his books his perspective is dark, the world he portrays a bit twisted, and this is a long complicated story. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46128598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series I was really anxious to get into another series, but could not get past this first book.  I finished it, plugging through since in my previous experience the first book also dragged.<br/><br/>The scenes were too disjointed and nothing really made a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41249376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had such high hopes for this book. I adored Tad Williams' WAR OF THE FLOWERS, and I really wanted to like this. Unfortunately, while Tad has some interesting ideas and explores a world that has the potential to be highly interesting, the book itself is dull, dull, dull. Uneven pacing and entire ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66990200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another member of my all-time favourite is OTHERLAND. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this entire series. The first three books can't be put down. They have a richness and fullness to them to keep the reader totally hooked. The last was a big disappointment with a strung-along plot that became totally confusing. He could have cut the last plot by at least two thirds to make it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57170525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Epic opening to a sci-fi series with a lot of potential, set in a near future that's consumerist, narcissistic and shallow. A wide variety of characters and imagery; to his credit Williams draws characters from many countries, allowing him to deepen the details of the future. I especially enjoyed th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48302653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series. I read it years ago, picking it up only because of the cool cover. It's not the type of book I usually read. I'm not a fan of cyberpunk lit. But then again, Otherland is far from typical. Heck the main characters are black South Africans (unlike in District 9, Tad's rendering is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72835094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series and loved it. I read it twice and have autographed copies to save. I enjoy epics. I enjoy detail. I enjoy science fiction, computers, virtual reality, anthropology, history, sociology, political intrigue and all the other individual elements of this series...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27474429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this first installment of the Otherland series, but grew a little tired with the sequels.  I love seeing how old sci-fi ideas have have materialized in the present to some degree.  Therefore, the most interesting aspect to me was seeing how close some of Tad Williams futuristic imaginations ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12597449">more...</a>]]></body>
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