Stone of Farewell
1990 • 610 pages
Ratings53
Average rating3.8
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Ratings53
Average rating3.8
The second book in the trilogy that launched one of the most important fantasy writers of our time
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3 primary booksMemory, Sorrow, and Thorn is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1988 with contributions by Tad Williams.
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6 primary books8 released booksOsten Ard Saga is a 8-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1988 with contributions by Tad Williams. The next book is scheduled for release on 10/1/2024.
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A long book - the good bits were excellent but there were some passages that I thought were overly long and overwritten and these got a little tedious. A little rest before I start the final (even longer) part
This was a bit of a letdown after a really enjoyable opening novel. Folks knock the first book because the first 200 pages are interminably slow. No one ever mentioned that the second book takes about 500(!) pages to really get going.
While The Dragonbone Chair raised many questions and provided few answers, Stone of Farewell raises very few questions and answers even fewer. Here's hoping the final doorstopper in the trilogy is packed to the brim with with action and plot development!
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Still want to punch most of the characters, but I think this book was all about personal fragility, and some general buttheadedness...
I love the audible version of this, very well read. Now to book 3....
The most middle middle to ever middle. It's not even a middle. It's an iddl.
There's a season of The Walking Dead where, after the heroes have been holed up in a prison that is attacked by enemies, they are then scattered in many directions. And the show spends episodes upon episodes upon episodes dealing with them all separately wandering around until they get to the point in which they all meet again.
This 800 page book is an elongated version of those episodes, but if every character stopped and talked about the history of every town and zombie and raccoon they wandered by.
I was gonna try to finish this trilogy before the end of the year, but I need a break. I'll read To Green Angel Tower next year.
Can someone tell me an attribute of Simon? Any attribute. Not being picky here. I can't think of anything. Alive? Is being alive an attribute?
