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The Dark Tide (Iron Tower Trilogy #1)

by Dennis L. McKiernan (Goodreads Author)

3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 · rating details · 1,089 ratings · 54 reviews

Tuck Underbank is a Warrow -- think a hobbit with shoes and "large jewel-like eyes" -- living in the peaceful Boskydells. When an unnaturally cold winter strikes and the evil Modru threatens the world, he and a number of his fellow Thornwalkers go to the High King's aid. But a vast expanse of lightless blizzard called the Dimmendark (sounds bad, doesn't it?) is spreading o...more

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Published August 6th 1985 by Roc (first published 1984)

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Sep 11, 2009 Muzzlehatch rated it 1 of 5 stars

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NOTE: This is a review of the whole trilogy, as I'd left a brief comment on this book first when I started reading it - why not keep it here?

First off, I don't have much to add to all the other negatives - this is likely the worst book of any kind that I've ever read. Read on if you must...

Tolkien plagiarism - well, duh. This makes the "Sword of Shannara" look like a masterpiece of originality in comparison. The very beginning, with the "young buccan Warrows" (McKiernan's strength sure isn't in...more NOTE: This is a review of the whole trilogy, as I'd left a brief comment on this book first when I started reading it - why not keep it here?

First off, I don't have much to add to all the other negatives - this is likely the worst book of any kind that I've ever read. Read on if you must...

Tolkien plagiarism - well, duh. This makes the "Sword of Shannara" look like a masterpiece of originality in comparison. The very beginning, with the "young buccan Warrows" (McKiernan's strength sure isn't in his naming) practicing their archery, is just about the only scene that doesn't seem like a LOTR swipe. OK, the warrows are a little more warlike than the hobbits. So what? They also have a piece in the appendix called "On Warrows" - they're quite short - they tend to stoutness - they live in a peaceful country all their own and like to avoid the big folks - there's a town on the verge of their country called Stonehill (Bree) populated by men and Warrows, with an inkeeper named Bockleman (Barliman Butterbur) - four of them take part in most of the action of the book, with one Tuck (Frodo) being eventually responsible for the downfall of the bad guy Modru (Sauron) and his boss Gryphon (Morgoth). You get the idea.

But I guess one can plagiarise pretty baldly and get away with it. I don't think McKiernan got sued - if he did, he must have settled quietly - his books are still out there. So let's let go of that. If he's writing a copy, well, how does he write it? Not well at all I'm afraid. His heroes and villains are all paper-thin - Modru comes off as a James Bond villain at best, cackling about his plans to his helpless female prisoner and hissing a lot, and he's evil because....uh...he's evil. The heroes have no personalities either, and most of them cry a lot. There's no sense of landscape, of culture, of history, it all just feels tacked together, all makeshift and cheap, all no more detailed or interesting than the average AD&D game I was playing in college around the time this was first published. Others have mentioned how McKiernan flips back and forth between "quarrels" and "arrows" (it should be the latter in most cases) indiscriminately, but his writing is remarkably lazy and poor throughout. He uses the passive voice an awful lot and throws in archaisms and umlauts and accents recklessly, I guess to make it feel "old" and "epic", but he only succeeds in making himself look illiterate and pretentious. He also has one very curious trait that I've never seen anywhere before - he likes to abbreviate words that are not normally ever abbreviate, e.g. "landscape" becomes " 'scape". This choice and several other equally mysterious ones like using an apostrophe before non-abbreviated words ('Day) help contribute to the general sense that the guy never wrote so much as a letter between college and the writing of this book - and his editors didn't do him any favors.

And he's awfully, awfully obvious. When Tuck finds the Red Quarrel early on, we're never in the slightest doubt that he'll be using it to complete the Big Task and destroy the Big Nasty; when the heroes go underground in Dimmen-whatever (Moria) we know they'll have to face the Balrog-thing; when the eclipse is first mentioned there's never a shred of doubt that they'll have to reach the Big Bad Iron Tower before it. And so on. This is a book almost wholly without subtext, except maybe a very cynical one: how badly can a book be written, and how obvious can it's debt to LOTR be, and yet still be published - and even cherished by fantasy fans with little taste or experience. The answer saddens me.(less)

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Apr 14, 2010 Michael rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Oh, man, this is bad. I growl and/or yell at the book approximately once per page at least. It's a fascinating train wreck of a book, and gives me both terrors (that it has so many defenders and that someone capable of reading could actually like it) and solace (in that, no matter my many deficiencies as a writer, at least I don't do what McKiernan does here). I might recommend the book to a young child just getting into fantasy, but if you can read this slog, you can read The Hobbit and not onl...more

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Aug 25, 2011 Uk_id rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one

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Two things need to be established up front:

1) This is a LOTR facsimile out-and-out, and it was intentionally written to be so. Those who actually take the time to learn some of the history behind the book know that it was originally written to be a sequel to the LOTR trilogy, but the green light for publication was never given by Tolkien's family. The book was thus published after some edits to make it "its own story."

2) This is epic fantasy. In that vein, it is by nature slow in developing its...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Teakraken rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who likes high fantasy and doesn't have a stick up their bum

Recommended to Teakraken by: The Boyfriend

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Look, this book is like eating a rhubarb pie made by your friend, where you weren't expecting rhubarb pie (or maybe you did because you read the introduction), and you're surprised and kind of pissed because you thought only your grandmother could make rhubarb pie, and you always brag about how your grandmother invented rhubarb pie, before that people tried to eat the leaves and kept dying, but here's this jerk making a rhubarb pie, and the worst part is it's actually fairly tasty.

Sure, it's not...more Look, this book is like eating a rhubarb pie made by your friend, where you weren't expecting rhubarb pie (or maybe you did because you read the introduction), and you're surprised and kind of pissed because you thought only your grandmother could make rhubarb pie, and you always brag about how your grandmother invented rhubarb pie, before that people tried to eat the leaves and kept dying, but here's this jerk making a rhubarb pie, and the worst part is it's actually fairly tasty.

Sure, it's not as epic or long-winded as your grandmother's pie, and you suspect this pie crust might not be made from scratch, and it has a tendency to use completely ridiculous words and the phrasing is so silly it makes you laugh, but overall it's actually a pretty good pie.

If you'd never had your grandmother's real rhubarb pie, and ate this first, you would probably not be complaining so much. You might think the pie-author could have gone into a lot more detail, and made a richer and fuller story, with perhaps a bit less comically over-done heroic posing and characters talking as though they knew they were being recorded, but it was fun to eat and you might eat it again but definitely not tell your family.

OK, enough pie stuff. I don't give a rat's bum if McKiernan wrote his own story on Tolkien's framework, because he did it in a way I enjoyed. He managed to do away with things I didn't like in Tolkien (sweeping generalizations about races, characters never having to go to the bathroom, nobody ever asking useful questions) and introduced things I really liked (people listening to logic, characters being creative, people being people instead of mindless examples of their races, an interesting religious premise, silly writing).

The edition I read included an introduction which explained McKiernan's respect for Tolkien, and acknowledgment of the relationship between his story and the other. Maybe if I hadn't read that first, I would have been outraged, but come on. He's taking a fun twist, more directly mapped to Tolkien than most later high fantasy, but with a lot of merit.

I wished the books were longer so he could have gone into more detail (thus further defining the areas in which he expanded and moved away from Tolkien), but the depth with which he wrote the story left me interested in reading more. And you know what? I like the outline of characters grow up in sleepy town, larger events crash down, characters leave, characters bumble around, characters end up being really important, go through a nifty cave, fight a thing, get gifts from pretty elf ladies, wander around, have problems with horses, there are battles, characters sneak to final confrontation, epic thing, everyone smokes pipes by fire if they aren't dead afterward, reproduce.

Just because Tolkien made a delicious pie of great visibility and creativity doesn't mean there's no merit to improvising on his recipe and producing more tasty pies. I like tasty pies, and I don't care how closely related they are to the original pie, especially since Tolkien is dead and won't be contributing to the pie industry any further.(less)

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Jun 20, 2012 Tina rated it 3 of 5 stars

It gets four stars for nostalgic value. I read this book when I was 12 or so. Maybe 14. Anyway, I stumbled across the series at a used books store on the weekend and I had to buy them. I remember bits and pieces of the story so I wanted to re-read them to see if my memory was as good as I hope it is. I thought Merrilee comes back in this one, so I guess I'm a little off.

Anyway, actually reviewing this novel is more like a 3/5. It's reminiscent of LotR, especially with the little Hobbit-like cre...more

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Feb 06, 2012 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars

Somehow back in the 1980s, I missed these books. I was aware of them, I think, but somehow never read them, and that's unfortunate because The Dark Tide is a neat book. Some readers may complain that it's derivative of Tolkien, but McKiernan explains that his works were originally intended as sequels to LOTR. And really, show me fantasy from the 1980s (other than Ursula le Guin) that wasn't derivative of Tolkien.

If you can set aside your mental baggage, Dark Tide is a lot of fun. I realize moder...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Darshini rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this series. I really don't get what everyone is being such a whino for. He clearly says how he respects Tolkien and used his framework. Plus, it was written pretty well. Tuck was such a courageous character with a humble outlook, and Galen and Danner, poor 'ol Danner. He didn't go into the characters as much (Tolkien had an entire appendix dedicated to Ent History!) but they were all inspiring nevertheless.

Just because the story has similarities doesn't make it a BAD book. Everyone who...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Madigan McGillicuddy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Can I wholeheartedly recommend this book? Of course not. But, reading it back in the late eighties, I was fresh off of Dragonlance (probably waiting for the next book in the series to come out actually) and I hadn't read Lord of the Rings, yet, so I wasn't aware of how derivative this series was. For a fantasy -starved voracious reader who'd already racked up all the overdue library fines I could take, finding this book in a "give-away" pile of other mass market paperbacks was like a godsend. Th...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Christopher rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of my all time favorite Fantasy trilogies. I think of it as a better lord of the rings. I actually read this series before I read Lord of the rings which is probably why I can commit what others will consider lunacy and rate this Higher than Tolkiens work. Yes there are many similarities to Lord of the rings and Tolkiens middle earth world, but he makes the world different enough That you can overlook it. In a time when everybody is remaking everything and putting their own spin on i...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Deanna Brown rated it 3 of 5 stars

First of all, I will state out front that this trilogy was written to be the back-story accompanying a sequel to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. However, it was published as its own stand-alone series. I read this book (and the others in the series) when I was around 9, and did not have the patience to attempt LotR itself. I really enjoyed these books at the time, but would not recommend them to anyone older who is familiar at all with the LotR series. There are simply too many sim...more

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Nov 02, 2010 James Oden rated it 4 of 5 stars

McKiernan writes prose that flows very easily and frankly just draws you into the story. His characters have depth but not the point that they get in the way of the story. It is in the story that he may stray from excellence (and maybe not as I'll explain later) as he essentially is riding on the same formula as Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". Here is a small list of like elements:

- Great evil one long banished
- Central heroes are some diminutive fairy of small stature.
- great tower in the evil...more

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Apr 07, 2009 J rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I read McKirnan’s Iron Tower trilogy many years ago. I was looking for something like The Lord Of The Rings, as I recall. Boy, did I get it. Sort of. I remember having a difficult time getting through the trilogy, perhaps that I didn’t finish it.

Now I know why. Reading this again, the best word I can think of to describe McKiernan’s writing is “tedious.” This guy describes everything. What clothes the characters are wearing, what they eat, what they’re thinking, what they’re not thinking, what t...more I read McKirnan’s Iron Tower trilogy many years ago. I was looking for something like The Lord Of The Rings, as I recall. Boy, did I get it. Sort of. I remember having a difficult time getting through the trilogy, perhaps that I didn’t finish it.

Now I know why. Reading this again, the best word I can think of to describe McKiernan’s writing is “tedious.” This guy describes everything. What clothes the characters are wearing, what they eat, what they’re thinking, what they’re not thinking, what they think about what they’ve been thinking about. He describes not only a castle but what it’s sitting on, all the people in the city around it, who built it, their favorite books, color, food, what was on the radio at the time, who was big in sports, etc. Dennis! It’s a castle! Leave it!

And he does all this describing with a whole lot of screwy use of the language. He uses the word “whelm” and variants of it as often as spotty faced teens and submornonic frat boys say, “dude.” He misuses it slightly but I wouldn’t recommend checking that by looking up the definition then reading this book. Not worth the time. Another one is “blench,” which means to flinch. Everyone in this book does it and I did it, too, about 3,632 times while hacking my way through the dense underbrush that is McKiernan’s writing. Oh, and he misspells words on purpose, claiming that’s the “old way” or “old spelling” or something. I think he’s trying to be “quaint” or “authentic” but it just comes off highfalutin’ and it’s difficult to stomach, let alone read.

Then there’s the repetition. I likes me some repetition in music. Actually, I like a lot of repetition in music. Alright, Lemmy era Hawkwind! But in writing? No thanks. Tell me once! Any more than that and I have to assume you think I’m stupid, which I do not appreciate. Sometimes McKiernan's repetition comes off like a children’s author repeating a moral lesson. If this book were less than a third the length and didn’t have the occasional “adult theme,” I’d think it was written for unimaginative eight year olds.

Let’s see, what else…

Oh, yeah! I almost forgot! The whole Tolkien rip off angle! You might ask, “How bad could it be?” Bad. Real bad. It’s like he took Lord Of The Rings, wrote up an outline of the story then changed about six things to make sure he didn’t get sued. Maybe seven things. Certainly not as many as ten. Then he flipped the events around for good measure. I mean, there’s no great wizard leading this fellowship, for example, but there is a balrog (called something else) in a dwarven mine (again, name change from Tolkien’s) from whence the dwarves were all driven away by the evil forces of the dark lord Sauro… er, Modru. Or is it the other guy? I can’t remember. The siege of the big city happens at the beginning of the story instead of the end, but it’s in there, too. There’s even a battering ram with a name. Tolkien’s not the only victim. I detected “borrowing” from Lloyd Alexander and I’m willing to entertain the idea that there are far, far more stolen goods that I am too ignorant to recognize.

But I’ll tell you this; I do find that I care about the characters. Frodo, Aragorn, Gimli… wait, wait, wait, wrong book. Yes sir, McKiernan has gotten even me to be concerned with these characters (whatever their names are) and what will happen to them and it only increases my disappointment in him for delaying my finding out with all these WORDS. Goddammit, Dennis. Not cool.(less)

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Apr 09, 2010 Libby rated it 1 of 5 stars

As noted in other readers' comments, this is a truly awful Tolkien ripoff. Of course,it is part of a trilogy and its multiracial cast of los...I mean heroes, is in conflict with the ultimate evil. It is a triumph of ripoff and redundancy, but that is not the worst. The totally tedious writing style is intended to be medieval and chivalrous, but it only succeeds in boring the bile right out of my liver. If you have not yet squandered precious moments of your life on this banal tale, you can bring...more

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Sep 24, 2007 Carl rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one

Shelves: fantasysci-fi

Well, I can't remember exactly when I read this, but it was a long time ago-- I'm guessing '99, but maybe earlier. Maybe I had just gotten very critical at that point in my life, because I believe it was around that time (in a space of 5-6 years) that I was finding myself disgusted with Terry Brooks and Raymond Feist as well-- possibly because I had been to several writers conferences at that point and had taken two short story classes at Las Positas and UCSB respectively, and I may have been ov...more Well, I can't remember exactly when I read this, but it was a long time ago-- I'm guessing '99, but maybe earlier. Maybe I had just gotten very critical at that point in my life, because I believe it was around that time (in a space of 5-6 years) that I was finding myself disgusted with Terry Brooks and Raymond Feist as well-- possibly because I had been to several writers conferences at that point and had taken two short story classes at Las Positas and UCSB respectively, and I may have been overly critical, but... Brooks may have had some more redeemable qualities to him, or at least I've had friends whose opinions I respect say they liked his work, and in Jr Hi I'd been okay with his Elfstones of Shannara (3-4 years later I tried again and couldn't stand it), but Feist and McKiernan seemed like jokes to me. I know there are many out there who are fans, so I'll qualify all that I say by announcing here my willingness to be convinced otherwise, and even to try these books again-- but if you're going to build an epic fantasy so obviously inspired by Tolkien then you'd better do a damn good job, or else try to be a bit more original. Well, I suppose I should be cautious saying that, because I'm in the writing business myself (okay, only two poems and a short story published, and none of those strictly in the fantasy genre), and have wanted to write the sort of things Tolkien did since I was 9 or so. But I'm not criticizing the fact that they attempt to emulate the master, just the fact that it seems to be that they do it so poorly.
Okay, let me focus on this book for the moment. I may have actually been able to finish this, though I can't remember. Just in case, I decided to give it one star. I don't think I ever even started the others in the series. It felt to me like something written in Jr Hi or High School, or thought up during that time, and then written in equivalent prose. Again, it's been nearly a decade and I may feel differently now if I give it another go, but this combined with the way too blatant rip-off of the hobbits (well, okay, they didn't look exactly like hobbits) and what even then felt like the most immature, insipid, and just plain weird love scene I've ever read (for good examples of tasteful love scenes which are not pornographic try Michael Scott Rohan-- though I'm not saying McKiernan is pornographic here). Well, but now that I've ranted I should also point out that at the time I had put aside my own epic fantasy, started in High School, because I was realizing 1) how poorly written much of it was, and 2) how much of a Tolkien rip-off it was (though I had way more influences than McKiernan, I believe)-- so when I read books with similar problems (McKiernan, Brooks, Feist), my reaction was probably a bit stronger than need be due to insecurities concerning my own writing. Still, I will let the one-star rating stand for the moment, until I'm convinced otherwise. I did like the cover art, and really wanted to like the world he painted-- but it just didn't work. (less)

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Nov 02, 2009 Dan Morrill rated it 4 of 5 stars

OK, I'm not gonna lie. You can tell the dude was just ripping off C.S. Lewis. Though, to be fair, the purpose was not to rip of the master, as much as praise the master through imitation. These stories are different. As a matter of fact, some of the imagery is just wonderful. There were some parts that, as I read them, I actually become afraid of the unseen creature, reaching though the bars without moving to grasp its prey...

*shiver*

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Apr 14, 2009 Rob rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, greats, favorites

I learned you can re-do what another has done, and in style, and make it wholly your own without diminishing or insulting the original in the slightest. I don't enjoy McKiernan's Iron Tower trilogy in the same way as The Lord of the Rings, but it is, in its own way and on its own terms, every bit as satisfying. If you're a fan of the one, I strongly suggest you read the other.

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Jan 11, 2011 Special K rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, american-lit

This was lent to me by an acquaintance who found out I'm a Tolkien fan and said, "If you love Lord of the Rings, you'll definitely love this!" A most unfortunate assumption.
I picked up the book prepared to find a certain level of inspiration from the Lord of the Rings, but instead found a mind-numbingly huge number of blatant rip-offs. Accompanied by awful writing. I was prepared to give examples, but there are too many to choose from. I can only hope that this author has come to feel shame for...more

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May 29, 2013 Robert rated it 2 of 5 stars

The plot is ok, and it can be forgiven for borrowing lots of ideas from Lord of the Rings (the author explains in a note at the beginning that the reason he started writing in the first place was because he wanted to go on another Tolkien-like adventure, but Tolkien was dead), but the characters are over-simplified and boring and make the story not really worth reading.

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Jan 07, 2011 Jon rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

I remember loving this series as a child, but unfortunately I went back to read it when I was older and found the story was too simple for my tastes. I think it has a lot of value for people starting into the fantasy realm, but if you've done a lot of heavy reading into epic series like the Wheel of Time, you probably will not enjoy this story too much.

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Nov 17, 2011 Budo Von Stahl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Too often maligned as a knock-off of LotR, The Iron Tower is really a delightful tale of its own, well done with endearing characters, underlying themes, and great action. If one admits that the story does follow 'the formula' (which has stood the test of time, I might add) one can sit back and enjoy this take on it with relish. Get it.

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Aug 23, 2012 Randy Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book will be loved by many who love the Lord of the rings style fantasy sometimes called high fantasy. Of those who prefer the low fantasy or gritty fantasy will find this novel to wordy and long and rambling. I for myself love all types of fantasy and I think this is an excellent example of Tolkien's fantasy.

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May 08, 2013 Scott Taylor rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book has chomps, for sure, and McKiernan spins a tale worth reading although I felt like there was a bit too much crying from the lead protagonist as the series went on. Also, a very strong mirror to Tolkien's LotR, which might put some folks off, although I found it a pleasant enough take on the subject matter.

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Jul 14, 2009 Charles rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

This series is really a pastiche of the Lord of the Rings. The writing wasn't that bad, although way too detailed, but the story, setting, and characters were virtual ringers for the characters in Tolkien's magnificient work.

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Feb 24, 2009 Tekenduis rated it 2 of 5 stars

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The Lord of the Rings, retold without any of Tolkien's flair. I read it only because I wanted to have a good grounding in the McKiernan's world before I tackled any of the books that don't read like he was typing with The Lord of the Rings at his elbow for reference. (I wish I was kidding. It really IS Lord of the Rings, but the character, place and race names are different. Ugh!) His other books better be worth the slog through this.

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Jun 16, 2010 Norma-anne Chattin rated it 2 of 5 stars

I listen to audio books while working in my studio and I often enjoy a good fantasy series. This series was predicitable and even a bit confusing on the audio side, but it was fine for what I needed at the time.

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Sep 06, 2009 Aaron rated it 5 of 5 stars

Simply great. Some say McKiernan rips off the Lord of the Rings, but people also say the movie Krull rips off the Lord of the Rings. Some of the situations are similar, but this is still a great book and great series.

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Mar 25, 2013 Greg Manuel rated it 3 of 5 stars

I would have given it 3 1/2 stars if that was allowed... just don't think it ranked a 4. At first, I thought that I was reading an almost direct rip-off of the LotR. I was waiting for the One Necklace to pop up or something. But even though it is STRONGLY influenced by the Lord of the Rings, it has enough differences to keep the interest, especially since it is not that long. His attempt at flowery speech can sometimes be a bit much to bear but if you win through to the end then the story isn't...more

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Oct 14, 2010 Amberle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Originally written as a kind of sequal to the Lord of the Rings, so there are a lot of similarities. But it is much better written and the characters and story are more engaging and hold your attention.

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Jun 26, 2011 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a somewhat interesting fantasy but I was put off by how much he stole from Tolkien. The Dark Tide is almost just like the siege and battle for Minas Tirith in The Return Of the King.

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Aug 01, 2011 Gerald Black rated it 5 of 5 stars

Though very Tolkeinesque in its scope, it still stands alone as the beginning of a series where the "Little guy" does great things.

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McKiernan was born in Moberly, Missouri, where he lived until he served the U.S. Air Force for four years, stationed within US territory during the Korean War. After military service, he attended the University of Missouri and received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1958 and an M.S. in the same field from Duke University in 1964. He worked as an engineer at AT&T, initially at Western Elec...more

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