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Summary: Autumn Winds Blowing leaves the color of fire from the Vale
Review: This book made fantasy for me. The only other book that comes close is the Lord of the Rings. I can picture Solace and the swamps and Darken Wood and Solace Vale so well that I see it in dreams. The first of the Dragonlance books was the greatest book of all the medievil fantasy tales I have ever read, which is a lot. I have read the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, and many more. This book has made me love fantasy almost as much as reality and even though I have read it five times this year I still can't get enough of it. It is the first book of medievil fantasy that I have read and after many more will be the last one I read before I move on, that is if I move on. Each character is like an old friend to me and I feel as if I am one of the companions myself. I also write fantasy and get in the high 90's with them in grade 10 English so I am not saying this because I am a crased fan. I thououghly enjoyed this book the first time and the last 4 times as much. "EST SULARIS OTH MITHAS"
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Summary: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Review: After I read this book, I immiediately ansked my dad for the next one, and thus ended up reading the whole series. The main characters, Tanis Half-elven, Goldmoon, Laurana, Tasselhoff Burrfoot, Riverwind, Kitiara, Flint Fireforge,Sturm Brightblade, Caramon and Raistlin Majere, and other unforgettable characters, go on wonderful but haunting adventures together. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes reading big advanced books. People who read little books like RL Stine and others that small should try this, but this series is for the big readers. Big books for big readers.
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Summary: What An Adventure!
Review: The characters in this book are so real it's amazing! You can reach into this world & touch these people. Even when you're not being told what they're saying or thinking, you know!
You can hear them anyway. You can literally hear the old dwarf grumbling with every step. Most of these characters are silent-types but you can HEAR their troubled thoughts.
The best parts about this story are: It's about the characters, not dragons or monster. The fantasy elements are only the settings, not the story(something a lot of fantasy & sci-fi writers could learn from).
Unlike Jordan, Weis & Hickman don't overdescribe. They are able to paint you a graphic picture without slowing down the pace of the story with un-necessary details.
And the best part of the story is once you step into the world you won't want to leave. The characters will become like friends & the world they live in will be like your second home
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Summary: BEST FANTASY NOVEL IVE EVER READ
Review: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AND THE OTHERS IN THIS SERIES, CHRONICLES AND LEGENDS. I HAVE NEVER READ A FANTASY BOOK LIKE THIS BEFORE. THE CHARACTERS IN THESE BOOKS COME TO LIFE AND KEEP YOU TURNING THE PAGES, AND THE STORY KEEPS YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT. TWO THUMBS UP!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Watching a role playing game
Review: For someone who plays Dungeons & Dragons like I do, you will find that this series of books is the game come to life. You can almost hear the dice rolling, especially in the begining of this first book.The world is Krynn and its about to go through an unfortunate string of events which will drag our group of adventurers through hell and back. Each has thier own demons and issues to work through, and its pleasing to watch each one struggle and grow. To be honest I loved this series of books and I found that the detail of the world and the interesting-ness of the characters keep the pages turning. Read the whole series including the Legends trilogy - you won't be disapointed.
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Summary: Q. Better Fantasy Series out there? A. Don't do drugs.
Review: What can the Don say about this book that has not been said before. It's the beggining of an epic. The chance to see all of the future heroes and villans, and heroes who are at heart villans in thier younger days is a pleasure. If you are new to Dragonlance start out with this book and read the rest in chronological order.
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Summary: Worth reading at least once, especially for teens.
Review: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is the first, and by far the best, book detailing the world of Krynn invented by Weis and Hickman. Some additional 80 books have been written in the setting, and only a handful - some of the other ones by the original authors - are worth reading. The characters and settings are magnificently vivid and interesting enough to spark a teenager's love of reading. It certainly did that for me. I practically adored this book and its characters for years. Unfortunately, rereading this as an adult was disappointing. There were too many inconsistencies for believability, even in a fantasy setting.
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Summary: Love, magic, friendship, fights
Review: My son wrote the following mini-review: A team of eight "friends" join together in a quest for the dragon-slaying weapon -- the mythical dragonlance! Along the way, they encounter love, magic, friendship, and a lot of fights with the ominous draconians. Will they vanquish or be vanquished? Because I received the trilogy as a gift, I was obligated to finish at least one of the original Dragonlance titles. At first, I didn't really want to, but when I had fifty pages under my belt. I was hooked. I liked the sword fights, magic, and the dragons themselves. The small print and a whopping 441 pages make this book slow going but fun to read. I recommend it to anyone ten or up.
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Summary: Not too shabby
Review: This review will focus overall on the Chronicles trilogy, which i thought were some very good books. The characters were well done, and the plot was interesting. Actually, to say the characters were well done is an understatement. You really come to like them and to feel sorta like you are sharing the adventure with them. Two of my favorite characters were Tas and Fizban, because they are so funny. They bring the right amount of humor into these books that really made me enjoy the trilogy a lot more. By far the most interesting character is Raistlin, the mage, whose struggle for life and power is so real and cool. Him, always being sortof overshadowed by his handsome and strong twin brother needs something to distinguish him in this world, so he struggles to become the most powerful person in the world. His magic is very cool, as is Fizban's- who is absolutely hilarious in trying to cast his favorite spell, Fireball. The deaths in the book were well done, and brought more reality of life into these books, as did the fact that the characters werent all powerful. Yes, the group did have massive amounts of power and stuff, but they were still frightened by Dragons, and they knew their limits. But some may think, if i give this book so much praise, why only 4 stars. The 1 star that i took off was due to the massive amount of things that were pulled from tolkien. maybe some of it wasnt on purpose, but there were just so many similarities. For example, the Elves. They were so much like the elves in the Silmarilion, with their Kinslaying, and division among the 3 groups. One of the most annoying similarities was the the Towers of High Sorcery, which held the dragon orbs. Those were so reminiscent of the towers which held the palantirs, it was annoying. But other than my annoyance with the Tolkien likeness, i thought this was an admirable series, with many high points, along with a bunch of cool twists and turns in the plot. I would definately recommend these books.
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Summary: Definitely worth a read and a re-read
Review: I first read the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy when I was about 14 or 15 years old and I really enjoyed it for the exciting adventures and for the battle scenes. I'm now 23 and I just finished reading it again for the second time. All I can say is that I loved it even more this time around, mainly for the superb character development. Chronicles succeeds on so many levels because Weis and Hickman take you deep into the main character's psyches. Thus, although the story is epic and sweeping in its scope (good vs. evil with the fate of the world in the balance), it is also imbued with a deeply human and personal quality which makes you (or at least made me) laugh at, get angry at, cry with, and sympathize with the main the characters. You walk away from this series really feeling that, whether you like them or dislike them in the end, you actually know the characters. Personally, I was furious at Tanis during the last part of Dragons of Winter Night and almost all of Dragons of Spring Dawning, but in the end you really see that Tanis is a man with flaws like us all. In the process of reading, I would have preferred that he forget Kitiara and give himself to return Laurana's love way back at the begining of Drag. of Winter Night, but he had to have a wrestle with his own demons before he could choose which woman he was going to give his heart to. At the end of the story, Tanis is a much more real and substantial character for the whole mess in the middle. I give this example because it is character development such as this (for good or for evil) that elevates the Dragonlance Chronicles far above most fantasy novels, and indeed even above the clichés inherent in its own storyline. If you want to read one superb and compelling fantasy series, you'd be hard-pressed to find one that is superior to Dragonlance Chronicles (and then read Dragonlance Legends as well, its just as good). Start, of course, with Drag. of Autumn Twilight, and after that I don't think you'll have any hesitation about reading the second and third volumes. (One comment concering comparing DL Chronicles to Tolkien: Let's let Tolkien be what he is- the father and pioneer and architect of the epic fantasy novel, and let's let Weis and Hickman be what they are- those who are masterfully building on the foundation that Tolkien laid. Personally, I enjoy both Tolkien's writings and those of Weis and Hickman equally as much, but for different reasons.)
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