The Annotated Legends

Rating:
Summary: Waste of Money
Review: The first 6 dragonlance books (Chronicles and Legends Trilogies) remain for me, the greatest works in Fantasy ever written. The poor rating I give to this volume is due only to the useless commentary that I so hoped would provide insight into the story. What the authors merely do is provide offhand comments that either repeat themselves or detail things that I found uninteresting. I was seeking more detail into what Raistlin had experienced in his journey, ie..what actually went on when Soth and Raistlin first encountered each other in Shoiken Grove. What did Raistlin face when he entered the Abyss and battled the Dark Queen's army. Why did the mage council simply not kill Raistlin outright. Why did the Dragonlance Adventures book have such inappropriate stats for the characters involved in this story. Alas, none of these were answered.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent story, HOWEVER.........
Review: The notes by TRH are just awful. After reading both the Annotated Chronicles and Annotated Legends, I found myself no longer reading the side notes by TRH. Most of them were not helpful or insightful as he tends to repeat the same ideas. His own arrogance shines through over and over again as he leads us to believe he singlehandedly created most everything in the Dragonlance universe or had all of these ideas planned out from the beginning. The notes by Margaret Weis were much more helpful/insightful and felt much more genuine than those by TRH.

I have really enjoyed everything I have read by these two authors, however I would recommend reading the paperbacks instead, they are just as good and will save you money. Plus you will be spared wasting your time with the generally useless comments by Tracy Hickman!