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Summary: Perfect Twist
Review: The characters in this book put an interesting twist into the story. With the so called childern stories coming to haunt the world.It's an intriguing battle between trust and betrayal and keeped me on the edge of my seat.With the twist of horor,honor,and comedy.The creatures that form this story have different points of view and are very differnt to the eye.The little Kender puts quite a ... personality to the group of heros.
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Summary: A great book, a must read
Review: This book is probably the best book I've ever read. The authors do a wonderful job expressing the characters feelings, and thoughts. Also, with eight characters, they do an excellent job making each of them different, from the hard nosed Sturm, to the care free Tasslehof. The plot is excellent, and I believe an excellent opening to what promises to be a great series.
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Summary: Dragons of autumn Twilight.. AMAZING
Review: First of all, I am a skater and a prep at my school. Not one you would think to read books... But I play computor games and was into fantasy games like Everquest, Ultima , Asherons Call. When i was 12 i picked up a copy of Harry Potter and loved it. Fascinated by (fantasy) :) I heard about dragonlance through a multiplayer game called Asherons call. So i decided oh whatever... a book I'll pick it up just to read in spare time like after tests and stuff. So i bought the book. As my family and I were driving to the beach I started to read. What I read was amazing... I had never actually wanted to sit down and read a book in my spare time before.. but this book changed all that. Amazingly this book captivated me.. It is a great tale of friendship and of an amazing world full of Dragons and great fighters. Even if you are an all blood shooter addict type guy like I was, you would probably enjoy this book. IT is a great piece of writing , very well written.
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Summary: Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Good or bad?
Review: Dragons of Autumn Twilight was an excellent book about eight friends working together to help save "Krynn", their world. Although this book would mostly be great for all ages, I would suggest it for age eleven and up. This is because it has some foul language and some mature situations that wouldn't be acceptable for younger readers.
The characters are well described, and well thought up. It really makes you think and use you imagination, but it is pretty easy because everything is described. Plus, there is always action happening.
Overall Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a great book about friendship, love, and peril. The authors use mystical creatures (Elves, Dwarves etc.) as well as humans to make the story more interesting. The rest of the books in the trilogy are just as good as Dragons of Autumn Twilight.
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Summary: No matter what I say about this book, it's an understatement
Review: This book is the essence, and masterpiece in the Dragonlance series. It is possibly the best fantasy book ever written, with a unique blend of interesting characters that you grow to love, plot lines that offer every conceivable luxury to a reader, and timeless relationships. Throw in a setting (Krynn)unparalleled by any other fantasy writer (with the exception of J.R.R. Tolkien), and you have an epic book. To me, this book is to fantasy literature what Star Wars was to film making. To say it is a must read is an understatement. I would recommend it to people of any age, as the money spent on it will pay itself off in the first 5 minutes of reading. The best book, in the best trilogy, I have ever read.
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Summary: Got me from the start!
Review: The minute I started to read this book, the action took me in! Within the first 25 pages there was a battle. This book is action-packed, humerous, and serious in some parts. It has the basic good vs evil plot to it, however, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were able to draw it out into a wonderful series of books. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE who likes the fantasy genre. If you love this book (which I find it hard to believe if you don't), then you'll love Dragons of Winter Night (book 2), Dragons of Spring Dawning (book 3), and possibly even Dragons of Summer Flame (book 4). READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Only the beginning...
Review: The Dragonlance chronicles is one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time. I have been reading lots of great fantasy over the years, and would you believe, that on January 22nd, 2001, I finally learned of Dragonlance's existence?! Apparently, all my friends have read them and they never bothered to tell me about this masterpiece! Anyway, it's all my fault that a best selling fantasy book series numbering over 60 volumes (I'm including all those little side books) that date back to the early 80's just happened to escape my attention, so I went out and bought the chronicles. After four days of non-stop reading I finally finished, and I felt a kind of... emptiness inside of me. I just then realized it was over, and it hurt, I didn't want it to end! I wanted to find out what happened next! (fortunately I discovered the Legends trilogy) the point is, I never felt that way about a book before! The writing is fantastic! The characters are so well developed! (Believe it or not, I cried when a certain person(s) kicked the bucket. My mom came in and asked me if I was alright, so I wiped my tears and told her everything was fine... after she left I began crying again.) Of all the 'epic' fantasy series' I have read, this one ties the Lord of the Rings as my favorite. Among my other fave series' is 'The Wheel of Time' by Jordan, and 'Lord of the Isles' by Drake. But the most satisfying thing about the Chronicles, is that in FAR less pages, Weis and Hickman make more cool things happen, better develop the characters, and create a better world than Jordan does in his whole nine volume (more to come of course, and I still love WoT)series! Bottom line: Dragonlance = Oh yeah!
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a great book. It is the perfect start to a great series.The DragonLance Chronicles is one of the best series I have ever read. The 2nd book in the series is called Dragons of Winter Night. Read it. If you loved this one, you'll love the second and third and fourth.
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Summary: DRAGONLANCE CHRONICALS REVIEW.
Review: This review has more to do with the whole seris, than it does with just "DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT." The seris starts out with "DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT", which is by far the best book I have ever read. It starts out with a meeting of old friends (Tanis Half-elven, Sturm Brightblade, Flint Fireforge, Caramon, Raistlin, Tasslshoff Burrfoot, The Plainsman Riverwind and his companion Goldmoon.) Riverwind and Goldmoon are being chased by Goblins because they have the blue crystal staff, and the Queen of Darkness wants it, which sends the companions on a very dangerous journey into darkness, death and betrail, with one thing bonding them together, HOPE. The series sends the companions through many obsticals like the Evil Dragon Highords, and their Dragons who at first seem to be impossible to stop, until Tanis Half-elven's childhood friend, Laurana forages krynn's first Dragon Lances since the Caticysm. Combined with the magical Dragon Orbs, which were made during the Caticysm, by the most powerful of wizards in the Towers Of High Sorcery, and only those of the strongest of minds can control these magical orbs. Which Laurana and Raistlin learn to control. Laurana uses the orbs power for good, to help aid them in battle, in which Raistlin, of course uses them to add to his power, which finally leads to his betrayal to his campanions and his twin brother Caramon in their time of need, because the companions are in a ship that is being persuied by a Blue Dragon and It's Highlord, Kitiara, Tanis's former lover, and Caramon, and Raistlin's half sister who is now commander of one of the dark armies of the Queen of Darkness, and like Rastlin thirsts for power. She is after them because they hold the key to the Queen of Darkness's victory. The captin of the ship accidentally sails the ship into the mailstrom, this is when Rastlin uses the orb to save his life and when it also has the power to save his friends, but he doesnt, they ask him many times but he says It will drain his strengh to much, so he leaves them to sink in a whirlpool and then...... Laurana's brother comes back, and to everyones astonishment has came back with the good silver, gold, bronze, and copper dragons, which help them in battle very much and actually start to make everything start to look good until.....
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Summary: Does Life Imitate Art, Or....?
Review: OK, so it's not high art, but it is a pretty good fantasy series. It is unusual in that it is the first fantasy series I know of that was directly based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. If you think about it, it implies that fantasy has come full circle. Fantasy gaming was in large part originally based on Lord of the Rings and similar, later fantasy books. Some fantasy series before this one seemed to be based on D&D, but at least pretended to be original works. The Shannara books spring to mind in this regard. But Dragonlance Chronicles was unapologetically based on D&D (actually Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, or AD&D, but it's basically the same), and published by TSR, the company that produced D&D. It chronicles the adventures of a party of characters in a home-made D&D world setting called Krynn. As such, I thought it was well-done and very interesting. I may have been partial to it because I've been a long-time D&D player, but I find it no worse than most other fantasy series out there, and better than many I've read before and since.
Each character shares a bit of the spotlight in the story, and characterization is detailed and consistent. The characters themselves are interesting, from the bouncy and amusing kender thief Tasslehoff to the dark and brooding mage Raistlin. There's something for everyone, really.
The writing itself is not great, but not bad for a first novel. There are a couple parts where it seems a bit clunky, but nothing that interferes with the overall storytelling. The story itself was interesting enough to keep me reading. Like most other fantasy stories, what's at stake is the future of the world. But this saga is well executed with enough focus on the characters and their quest to make it an original story.
I didn't really care for the gully dwarves or the tinker gnomes in the world of Krynn. But they will probably appeal to some readers more than they did to me. Apart from that, the rest of the world of Krynn is enough of a departure from ordinary D&D that gamer/readers won't get hung up on the game stats of the characters or monsters.
In short, the series should be pretty enjoyable for gamers, and I suspect non-gamers might find it a good story and a good introduction to the fantasy concepts of D&D.
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