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Summary: Not superb, but not bad.
Review: If you're looking for a good completed series to keep you busy, and don't mind fantasy (and some humor), this is a pretty good pick. Prejudice and equality are big themes in this series. There are a couple of great characters I'll never forget - Hugh the Hand, a skilled assassin, and Zifnab, a senile wizard. Zifnab is a character (with a slightly different name) ripped off of another book by the same author. That in itself you'll find funny, and Zifnab is constantly a mystery.It lacks the complexity of stories such as The Wheel of Time, but it's a good read.
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Summary: The best premier title for one of the greatest series ever
Review: I can't begin to tell you how excellent this book is. This is Ms. Weis at her best! If you like other fantasy books, start reading this series. It is unbelievable. Totally original, with a great first book that gets the reader focused right away. I enjoyed this book thoroughly!
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Summary: Best book I've read yet.
Review: This was a great read, excellent plot and all that. If you think the world in this book is interesting you should see the other 3, though the one in the third book is kind of gloomy. What's all this about polititcs? They're not the point of the book and anyone who read the others would know that. The politics were just a mere side mensch thing at best. Haplo is only trying to influence them for the coming of his lord. It really turns out in an interesting way. If you don't like the way this book is written, then I ask you, what books do you like? Probably ones with 5 page descriptions of places you only see or hear about once in the book.. The descriptions in this book are not bad, they're great. It's a page turner, easy read, but not too simple of language. I found the footnotes interesting.
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Summary: A truly wonderful book set in a beautiful world.
Review: Another masterpiece by Weis and Hickman... though it is the only book in the Death Gate Cycle I have read, I have enjoyed their work in Dragonlance, and if all of the others in the DG Cycle are as good as this one, I will definitely get them.
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Summary: YES!!!!!!
Review: Excellent start to an excellent series. I mean, wow! Weis and Hickman just bombard you with amazing new places, characters and ideas. Nothing less that a classic. And to the person who complained about the lack of battles: have you ever considered that "combat" is not part of the definition of fantasy? Go back to your R.A.Salvatore and leave Arianus to people who can appreciate it.
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Summary: The plot brings up a different view of man's future.
Review: This book opened up a new view of humanity and what could happen in a fantasy world. The characters are widely diverse and are always showing more of their personality throughout the whole book. This book has it all. If you like magic, dragons, sorcerors, wars and fights in an imaginary world, then you will love this book.
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Summary: The Most Imaginative and Exiting Series Yet!
Review: Dragon Wing is a superb book. When I read it, I knew immediately that I would have to read the other six books. Weis and Hickman created characters with deep emotions instead of the usual hard-nosed villian and the good guy who risks all. It is a confusing story at first, the prologue is merely a conversation between two men about something that is totally not understandable at that point. Gradually, the story begins to fill in the detail, but for every question it answers it brings up a dozen more. Of all the Death Gate books, this was the least exciting and i still give it five stars! Once you get started reading this series, it is impossible to put down.
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Summary: My opinion of the death Gate Cycle and Dragon Wing
Review: Read this book! I read all the seven books and I recommended you read all the Death Gate Cycle. The first book of the series, "Dragon Wing", it's good (in my opinion it's a little slow, but interesting), the other six especially the last four are amazing and very exciting, the story changes in its entirety in the latest books and you don't expect the end. The story is full of magic and imagination and the way that the authors conceive how does it act it's totally new. The Death Gate Cycle tells the story of seven realms formed by a powerful wizards, the sartans, with the purpose of take control of the mensch and to avoid the increase power of their ancient enemies, the patryns, another powerful race of wizards. The sartans secluded the patryns in a prison named The Labyrinth and then dissapeared mysteriously. But the patryns could conquer The Labyrinth and now they wish revenge and take control of the realms. Dragon Wing, the first volume of the Cycle, tells the story of the realm of air, Arianus. Haplo, the patryn, is sent by Xar to this realm with the commission of search the sartans. Haplo at the begining, didn't find his ancestral enemy but he found a strange machine operated by the gegs and it's function still unknown.Besides, in this world humans and elves fight for water, the most precious element, because in this world it is scare. Haplo, after a while, knows the gegs Limbeck and Jarre, Bane a human prince who is taked care by Alfred (a strange fellow) and Hugh, another human that must kill Bane. So, don't you think that at first sight, this story is predictable by only reading the first book. Read the complete series of books, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Great begining to a great series!!!
Review: This book is great and I love the characters. Although there were few battles, the political aspect of the book was excelent! Hugh's character was a work of art and Sinistrad is a credit to all villans everywhere! I can not wait to read the rest of the series and discover what happens to the characters. This is must read!
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Summary: totally boring !!!!!
Review: This book has to be the worst fantasy I have ever read. At first I thought that the action would pick up eventually, but after I got half way through it I knew that I made a mistake. This whole book was about politics, I don't know about you, but if I'm going to read a book about politics it is not going to be about a situation that doesn't really affect me. I don't even think there was one GOOD battle scene.
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