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10-10-2004, 01:26 PM
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I didn't really see where this should be posted so i figured i'd post it here and a mod could move it as they wish :P
Is anyone reading the dragonlance books? I stopped reading them when i finished the war of thte souls. I went to the books store yesterday and was completely lost with the amount of new books that were out  where do i start up again? thx -Brian 
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10-10-2004, 03:03 PM
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| | The last ones i read we about Kitara's and Strums offspring. Basically the second generation. I was looking for the books as i wanted to order some this is an excellent link that details all the books. http://www.dl3e.com/products/novels.aspx
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10-10-2004, 03:39 PM
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| | lol...No one likes Dragonlance anymore! (as made readily apparent by my incredibly hokey username...ahh, the unseen pains of forcing one's little brother to register you...oops)
try this: www.dragonlance.com
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10-10-2004, 06:01 PM
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| | THanks for the links. Looks to me like these alot of the new books are histories and side stories(almost said side quests ). not that theres anything wrong with that 
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10-10-2004, 11:37 PM
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| | | If you were just starting out I would tell you to FIRST read the Chronicles trilogy and then the Legends trilogy since it is the sequel to the first trilogy. If you start with other books you may get lost because most if not all of them assume you have a clue about what happened in these first two trilogies. After them though, you can go pretty much anywhere in the series, heh |
10-11-2004, 12:18 AM
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| | | I stopped reading Dragonlance after 'Dragons of Summer Flames' was released. The idea of the new generation never got me excited, so I stopped reading.
A shame, too. Raistlin was always one of my favorite characters, in any novel/series. |
10-11-2004, 06:29 AM
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| | Actually I have read the Chronicles trilogy and I am about halfway through the 3rd book of the Legends trilogy. After that I may have to figure out how to raise money so I can buy..
The Second Generation
Dragons of Summer Flame
The War of Souls Trilogy
..then it will have to be somewhat random after that. The Dragonlance books have taught me reading is actually exciting.
I tried reading LotR like a year before the movies started being released, but I couldn't get past the 4th page of the first book. I COULD however read "The Hobbit" which was actually pretty nice.
In my 22 years on this earth before I read the Dragonlance books I have completely read..get this..3 novels..and two of them were for school projects! Then in the last year or so I have read (soon, after this book) 6 books. That is 150% more than in the last 22 years! lol |
10-11-2004, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Aegis I stopped reading Dragonlance after 'Dragons of Summer Flames' was released. The idea of the new generation never got me excited, so I stopped reading.
A shame, too. Raistlin was always one of my favorite characters, in any novel/series. |
I defently do not like the new generation as much as the classic dragonlance characters but the story must go on you should read the other stories, like The Raistlin Chronicles..I'm reading the 2nd part to it now
parantis, i was 21 when i started reading them.
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10-11-2004, 07:46 AM
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| | Actually I turned 22 like less than 2 months ago..so I did start reading Dragonlance when I was also 21. |
10-12-2004, 06:24 PM
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| | I was actually pretty disappointed with the concept of the new generation. I like to know my characters and see them developed. Like Aegis, the last book i read was "Dragons of a summer flame". Its been close to two years since i read those books and now there are over 100 books on the subject. Side quests or side stories are fun to read, but I would like to see the characters i like move on and do otehr stuff. I personally like Brightblade and Tanis a close second.
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10-12-2004, 06:42 PM
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| | | Im not sure who may favorite characters are...prolly tasslehoff, dalamar, flint, and raist
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10-12-2004, 06:49 PM
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| | | The novels of the new age are interesting to read if you've gone through the older ones, to see whos changed, and whos children have turned out how, and things like that. Unfortunately I think the whole basis on the setting that I liked most was destroyed in the new age, I liked the idea of the Towers of High Sorcery and everything like that. Tearing that apart and destroying the powers of mages and clerics into something feeble in comparison seemed to take away from the whole atmosphere of the setting. Good, good books to read though. I've only found a few that were only mildly entertaining out of the two dozen or so I've picked up from the Dragonlance line, which is more than I can say about any other line of books out there. |
10-12-2004, 07:43 PM
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| | I tried to read the "War of the Souls" series, but I just couldn't. The whole strength of Dragonalance, in my eyes, was the original "cast". The "newer" ones seem...well, flatter. The best character, peronsally? Raistlin, no question , but Fizban was always a close second (arrest that tree!)!
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10-13-2004, 04:53 AM
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| | | Anybody read any of the stories except for the first 6 books? They any good? Well it seems the war of souls aint that great. Is this genre or world worth getting into after the first 6 books?
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10-13-2004, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by CM Anybody read any of the stories except for the first 6 books? They any good? Well it seems the war of souls aint that great. Is this genre or world worth getting into after the first 6 books? |
Ive read the raistlin chronicles, part 1&2 of the "heroes" series, and book 2 of "meeting of the sextet" serries. I have book 2 in Betrem's guide (remember the great library's aide?) but im still looking for the 1st book
EDIT: Ive liked all of them so far  heroes was really neat cuz it tells about huma, kaz, and some dawrven legends that you hear about in the main series.
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