- scottyb
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2010-05-30
- Posts: 1
New reader has ???
OK...Yeah I know, where the heck have I been right!! Well I'm here now and am a bit confused about the number of books in this series. Dragonbone Chair & Stone of Farewell kick things off but then I see 2 parts to To Green Angel Tower(is this right) and one that isn't even listed here entitled Storm. So can a late bloomer get a hand?!?! THANX
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
- Posts: 14675
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Re: New reader has ???
It is a little confusing, isn't it? :)
There are, /technically/, three parts to the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series of books. It really is a trilogy. Promise! The confusing bit comes in when you have to realize that Tad didn't actually start off in the book business: he began by making doorstops and only shifted to novels when they became too heavy for people to actually move away from their doors. Thus:
Book One: The Dragonbone Chair - only mildly larger than most small infants, still portable.
Book Two: The Stone of Farewell - roughly the same size as a toddler; portable with effort
Book Three: To Green Angel Tower - requires a wheelbarrow at the very least to be transported; most people find a pickup truck gives the best results.
This last, magnificent opus posed a problem to Tad's publishers, when it came time to print the thing in paperback: viz, in order to keep it intact between two covers, as one volume, certain laws of physics would have to be broken (or at least, carefully skirted). As DAW are law-abiding creatures, they decided instead to split the monstrosity into two volumes: To Green Angel Tower I, and To Green Angel Tower II- two volumes, one massive, backbreaking work of genius in book form.
You're finding the name Storm because Tad's UK publishers thought it would be nifty to use words, rather than numerals, to identify the two parts of Book 3. Part I was given 'Siege' as its byline, and Part II received 'Storm'.
Did this help clarify at all?
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- ReynardFox
- Pilgrim
- From: Sacramento, CA
- Registered: 2006-01-03
- Posts: 35
Re: New reader has ???
Miiru wrote:Book Three: To Green Angel Tower - requires a wheelbarrow at the very least to be transported; most people find a pickup truck gives the best results.
Pfff, that's crazy talk. I need more than a wheelbarrow or a truck to transport mine. I have the magnificently massive hardcover edition, which requires a crane and a very large bulldozer to move around!
It is, as I call it, the Brick of Joy. :mrgreen:
Also, welcome to Osten Ard, Scotty! If you like high fantasy, I think you'll enjoy these books. They're very well-written, and also very addictive. I think you'll like this forum, too. We're all nice, and most of the time, we don't bite. Enjoy your stay! :D
- Sgtcampsalot
- Pilgrim
- From: North Carolina
- Registered: 2009-08-04
- Posts: 34
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Re: New reader has ???
A couple years ago I was lucky enough to get an Inter-Library Loan for Green Angel Tower (from Auburn University apparently), it was a hardcover edition from 1993. It had two synopsis pieces of paper on the inside of the front/back basically saying how "Tad Williams' epic is finally coming to an end".
I feel guilty, though, since in the several months it took me to finish it (including lots of late-fees, incurred by a VERY unforgiving University Level I.L.L. policy!) I managed to give even more stains to the not necessarily immaculate hardcover and pages.
Though, it wasn't RIDICULOUS. It was big, but far from unwieldy. Just, cumbersome, I'd say... :P
- ReynardFox
- Pilgrim
- From: Sacramento, CA
- Registered: 2006-01-03
- Posts: 35
Re: New reader has ???
Sgtcampsalot wrote:A couple years ago I was lucky enough to get an Inter-Library Loan for Green Angel Tower (from Auburn University apparently), it was a hardcover edition from 1993. It had two synopsis pieces of paper on the inside of the front/back basically saying how "Tad Williams' epic is finally coming to an end".
I feel guilty, though, since in the several months it took me to finish it (including lots of late-fees, incurred by a VERY unforgiving University Level I.L.L. policy!) I managed to give even more stains to the not necessarily immaculate hardcover and pages.
Though, it wasn't RIDICULOUS. It was big, but far from unwieldy. Just, cumbersome, I'd say... :P
Aww. Yeah, my hardbound copy is in pretty bad shape. I was lucky enough to find it in a library sale. I guess because of the state of the binding, the library withdrew it from their collection, and so I managed to snap it up for a dollar and seventy-five cents — and believe you me, it was the best almost-two dollars I've ever spent!
The binding is cracked in one place, though it hasn't lost any of its pages. The pages themselves are in good shape, none of them torn or the like, but the covers have seen better days. The dust jacket is still intact, though it's foxed and dog-eared and slightly torn in places. I'm about ready to look for some clear tape to keep it together — yeah, tape adhesive will eat it eventually, but it's not like this is a pristine collector's edition. (I will be ridiculously happy if I'm ever lucky enough to find one of those.)
Never mind that I'm constantly flipping through it, re-reading it, and occasionally... um... using it as a mouse pad, when I'm using my laptop. What? It works great and it's close at hand to flip through it. ;-)
- Bee
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2013-06-10
- Posts: 1
Re: New reader has ???
MST enjoyed the first looking forward to completing the series except find a very minor character with contemporary name (mine) who has a totally unacceptable behaviour/role (from my viewpoint) unable to read any more of tad Williams books and think he is well able to invent names for any further revolting characters. I will try to take him off my hate list. Good luck and Blessings to your positive endeavours.
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