Sleeping Late on Judgement Day - Tad Williams

DAW, 2014, 453 pages

ISBN: 978-0-7564-0987-6

Read: May 2025, age 47

 

Bobby Dollar, book 3 of 3 

 

Decent: interesting along the way, reasonably fun.  I didn't feel that it ended particularly well - it left plenty of hooks dangling to keep the story going, more like the end of an instalment than of a series, so not particularly satisfying.  

 

Rating: 3+ 

Happy Hour in Hell - Tad Williams

Daw, 2013, 446 pages

ISBN: 978-0-7564-0948-7

Read: April 2025, age 47 

Bobby Dollar, book 2

 

This book wasn't as much fun as book 1.  I think mostly it pulled our hero away from most of his supports, leaving him to carry a journey through Hell on his own, and it didn't quite work for me as well as it could have without the banter and teamwork.  It was still fine. 

 

Rating: 3

The Dirty Streets of Heaven - Tad Williams

Daw, 2012. 441 pages

ISBN: 978-0-7564-0790-2

Read: March 2025, age 46

 

Bobby Dollar, book 1

 

Interesting setting, fun characters, and the setup didn't drag nearly as much as I feared (I'm thinking of you, Otherland).  The humour was stretched a bit too far at times, but it was fun overall.

 

Rating: 4

Tailchaser’s Song – Tad Williams

DAW, copyright 1985, 364 pages

ISBN: 978-0-88677-374-8

Read August 2013, age 35

I think I might have liked it better in Jr. High.  Too many apostrophes and deus ex machinas for me now.

Rating 3