[gregebowman]

Just a word of warning. If anyone is interested in reading Tad Williams' Otherland series, you might just have to have the right state of mind to read it. Usually I don't mind reading 700+ page novels, espeically a series of 4 of them, but this has been taking me forever to read. I think I started around Halloween, and if I'm lucky, I'll finish the fourth book this Saturday while I'm at my part-time job (one of the benefits of doing security work). I remember enjoying his fantasy trilogy, and I thought this Otherland would be written in a similar style. It's not, and sometimes it just drags. So, this is just a warning. But if anyone is interested, it's about a group of people who go into, for lack of a better word, a matrix that is so lifelike, it seems real. But they can't get out, and they're in there to fight a cabal of the world's wealthiest people who are using the minds of children to use their matrix for the electronic equivalent of immortality. It is a fascinating premise, and the overall story gets you gripped, but it's still slow reading for me.