1/27/2024 0 Comments Tad williams otherland movie![]() But I am not reading this book in the eighties, I am reading it now and it is very dated in its style and plot. I suppose I should be more lenient because it was published in the eighties and fantasy hadn’t developed then as much as it has now, what with gritty and dark being the norm and authors trying to steer away from the pseudo-medieval European setting. This is a well-written book, just nothing I haven’t read a hundred times before. What’s more, there is quite a large chunk of story still to get through after the big “mystery” is resolved – and to any experienced fantasy reader this mystery is really clear from the beginning. While I enjoyed the darker middle passage (literally dark, they are underground a lot of the time), once the big evil is thwarted (come on, that’s not a spoiler) things go straight back to being your avarage Tolkien rip-off. Unfortunately, the ending was too deus ex machina for my taste and came rather abruptly. However, once you hit the middle portion of the book, Williams’ original ideas shine through and in a certain, very scary passage, he won me over again. It felt like reading the Hobbit with cats (and without Gandalf). The first half of this novel is very much traveling and world-building, a lot of setting up plot strings and introducing new characters. In finest Tolkien fashion, Tad Williams shows us a world that we can imagine as real from the point of view of the cats that inhabit it. We are introduced to the characters slowly and carefully. Accompanied by the kitten Pouncequick – who is adorable as all kittens are – and some unlikely friends he picks up on the way, Tailchaser shall take on his quest and find the truth about what’s haunting the cats’ realm. ![]() When Hushpad disappears mysteriously and rumors are spread about a strange danger taking cats from their homes, Tailchaser sets out to find his friend. As cats do, he likes to sleep, prowl and hunt, and play with his childhood friend Hushpad. Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains… And join him on a fantastic quest – all the way to cat hell and beyond.įritti Tailchaser, an orange cat with a white star-shaped patch on his forehead, is easy to love. The book was Tailchaser’s Song, the author was Tad Williams. While this is a “cat book” you can still (or already) see the heavy influences of that most famous of fellowships’ journey.įirst sentence: The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow.įifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel-the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M’an. When he wrote the latter, Tad Williams was clearly still in his Tolkien phase. Of the three (in paperback: four) volumes in his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, I’ve read the first two and left it at that. My favorite Tad Williams story is still the Otherland quartet.
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