Book Review: The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams
This review is a copy of the transcript of my video review on The Dragonbone Chair.
Cover art illustrated by Donato Giancola
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Series: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (Book #1 of 3), The Osten Ard Saga (Book #1 of 7)
Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Classic Fantasy
Pages: 703 pages (Hardcover edition)
Word Count: 288,700 words
Published: 25th October 1988 by DAW Books
Incredible. The Dragonbone Chair is an absolutely brilliant transition from classic to modern epic fantasy.
“When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.”