Dragonlance, General Impressions

[loreleyjacob]

Uri is making me read Dragonlance. Have so far finished Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning, Time of the Twins, and War of the Twins. Am now in the middle of Test of the Twins. Now, although my fabulous husband has almost all (!) the novels in this gigantic series, Test of the Twins will probably be the

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[ravenedgewalker]

Uhm yes. I agree with all your points. A friend encouraged me to read them many years ago, I also got as far as test of the twins and gave up. Actually, I think I got through half of it and then used the book to prop the fish tank pump up on.....

[elfwreck]

I adored the Dragonlance chronicles. I think I read the first three trilogies; not sure if I got farther than that. But I was an active D&D gamer at the time.

I wasn't reading them as "novels," really, but as "novelizations of the kind of games I'm involved in." They seemed to expect a certain level of familiarity with gamer-tropes; I have no idea how well they'd hold up outside of that. Makes me think of trying to read Star Trek novels without having seen the show, or any space opera movies.

(Also. I was sixteen. I gather I'd find problems in them now that weren't apparent to me at the time.)

I don't remember them glorifying war & death-in-battle; I remember them pointing out that a lot of people do glorify those, and they're still expensive and dirty and people wind up dead, and it kinda doesn't matter to their loved ones how "noble" the death was. It is possible I got this understanding from actual gaming more than the novels, because we played through all those concepts.

[queenofhalves]

those books were the best thing ever when i was 11.

[anonymous]

Wondering if these are books that your husband read as a kid/teen and still enjoys because of the sentimental connections? I have a few like that. :)

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