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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Favorite Quotes</strong><br/><br/>After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the phys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/470717">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/62396680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was a great conclusion to the series.  Usually I don't like it when things get &quot;all tidied up&quot; at the end, however the author did a great job of finishing what he started.  This series was a lot of fun to read.  There were a few slow points in the middle, but overall th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3934851">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This entire series is really good.  Its fun to read because of all the different environments and adventures they have but the last bit of this book is WAY OUT THERE!!!  Big-brain-in-the-sky type of stuff.  Its worth reading the entire series though because it doesn't get WAY OUT THERE until the las...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2546561">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, this will be a review of Otherland as a whole, being as each next book is a continuation of the last, literally you need to read the last page of one before you read the first page of the next. So, that being said. . .THIS WAS A HUGE FUCKING BOOK. It's one of those stories that requires you to d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46279884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Otherland series by Tad Williams consists of four books: City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, Mountain of Black Glass and Sea Of Silver Light. I'm not going to review each one separately, just talk about my general impressions of the whole. Sci-fi isn't really my genre, though I do love it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23683261">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With <em>Sea of Silver Light</em>, Tad Williams completes his  massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever. <p> Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that <em>Sea of Silver Light</em> ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. <em>--Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[At last we have come to the end of our journey, when all will be explained and all will be resolved.<br/><br/>As the book opens, the Other - the operating system for the Grail Brotherhood's mysterious plan for immortality - has been defeated, overcome and overpowered by the truly evil assassin Dre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14147231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This stunning finale to the gigantic Otherland tetralogy (City of Golden Shadow, etc.), a brilliant fusion of quest fantasy and technological SF, is sure to please Williams's many fans. Otherland, a complete universe co-existent with the real world, incorporates elements of the Arabian Nights, the Alice and Oz books, the Neanderthal Age, the Trojan War, rewritten Roman history (Hannibal returns three centuries after his death to crush Rome, without elephants), as well as numerous nursery rhymes and fables. An enormous cast of courageous humans confronts monstrous insects, unimaginable dangers and all the appurtenances of fantastic adventure. At nearly 700 pages this is a mighty mouthful to swallow, but a well-crafted if convoluted plot sustains interest through the lengthy climax, which explains the inexplicable.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, why did I read all four of these if I hated the first one so much?  Well, I got to the end of the first one and was infuriated by how little I knew about what was really going on.  I already owned the second book when I started reading the first, and it seemed insane not to read it if I already ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67582853">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This stunning finale to the gigantic Otherland tetralogy (City of Golden Shadow, etc.), a brilliant fusion of quest fantasy and technological SF, is sure to please Williams's many fans. Otherland, a complete universe co-existent with the real world, incorporates elements of the Arabian Nights, the Alice and Oz books, the Neanderthal Age, the Trojan War, rewritten Roman history (Hannibal returns three centuries after his death to crush Rome, without elephants), as well as numerous nursery rhymes and fables. An enormous cast of courageous humans confronts monstrous insects, unimaginable dangers and all the appurtenances of fantastic adventure. At nearly 700 pages this is a mighty mouthful to swallow, but a well-crafted if convoluted plot sustains interest through the lengthy climax, which explains the inexplicable.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last 15 pages of this book ruined Otherland for me as a series. It was set up so well, and Williams could've done so much, and then he ends it by having a Big Brain in the Sky crashing down on Daddy? For the love of... I still haven't been able to read another Tad Williams book for it, and I'm s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60001496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was sorry when I got to the end  of the book because the adventurous ride I was on was coming to a stop and I wanted to stay on it, so I started the series over again at book one, I dont normally reread my books so soon after I finish them but this serie was like a good movie that you watch again ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70245880">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointingly predictable ending to a series that could have been epic. Williams retcons the metaphysics he alluded to in the first book and turns the Other into a disappointing guilt-wrapped sci-fi device. While the characters are decently sketched, the potential moral ambiguities are downplayed.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48302661">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hated this series, even felt p@#$%d that the author had me coming back for more. By the time I got to this book I gave up, too much detail not enough momentum in the story.  I didn't actually care what happened at the end as I was so over it!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book - and the series - and I had a very difficult time putting it down. But the end did fall a bit flat. Without spoilers, I can say that there was a lot introduced  at the very end that made it feel very heavy and unfocused (Okay, some of it had been vaguely hinted at previously, then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50407066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the last of a four book series, each over 1000 pages in paperback, so around 5000 pages.  That's a bunch.  The first 400 to 500 hundred took some slogging to get through, then it got really interesting.  Then I got towards the end of this one, realized I had 200 or so pages left and wondered...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4241491">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of a fast wrap up of this long epic series, but enjoyable.<br/>*spoiler* He tosses in a new lifeform at the end as a plot-nugget<br/>for another series perhaps.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, its like He got sick of the story. I was so disappointed.]]></body>
    
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