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| 527.1 | He ain't in heaven... | GRAMPS::BAILEY | quoth the raven, nevermind | Wed Sep 23 1987 16:23 | 19 |
| There are currently eight books out in this series. The first three
deal with the "Dragonlance Wars" in which Raistlin and Caramon are
instrumental in opposing the "Dark Queen" and her attempt to take
over Krynn. The next three deal more closely with the brothers
and their relationship (almost a good (Caramon) vs. evil (Raistlin)
theme). The seventh book is a series of short stories that embellish
the story of the first six, in much the same manner as Silmarillion
does to Lord of the Rings. I haven't read the eight book yet.
Like so many successful fantasy novels, I noticed that a major
character is from a smallish, incredibly naive, and extremely likeable
(except to some of the other characters) race of inhabitants. This
seems to be a requirement these days for fantasy novels.
My opinion of this series is that it started out OK, dragged out
in the second series, and probably should've ended there.
... Bob
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| 527.2 | | MANANA::RAVAN | | Thu Sep 24 1987 10:05 | 12 |
| Re "fantasy and RP": The fantasy role-playing conference is at
4GL::FRP, where it moved some time ago. I've seen a couple of
references to the Dragonlance game material, but I couldn't find
one about the books. (Of course, in FRP books are usually mentioned
as source material only; a lousy book can still provide some great
ideas for a campaign.)
I haven't read any of the Dragonlance books myself, though I have
read a story or two. The major characters seemed interesting, but
not enough to grab me.
-b
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| 527.3 | ! | NEWVAX::SJONES | | Mon Sep 28 1987 12:51 | 8 |
| RE 1...
I agree with you in that they did seem to drag a little, but still
superficial "fun" reading. I had quite a few laughs w/Tasslehoff's
antics.
Do you now the name of the last two books?
re 2...
Thans for the tips Do[CFRP
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| 527.4 | Friends of Krynn?? | GRAMPS::BAILEY | quoth the raven, nevermind | Mon Sep 28 1987 20:07 | 13 |
| RE: .3
Actually, there are three books in the series, collectively called the
Dragonlance Tales. The first is "The Magic of Krynn". The second
is "Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes". I haven't seen the
third of the series yet, but it's listed in the back of the other
two and titled "Love and War". By the way, most of the stories
in the first two are not written by Weis and Hickman. I would imagine
that the trend continues in the third. Kind of like Marion Zimmer
Bradley and the "Friends of Darkover".
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| 527.5 | legends... | MASALA::GPIKE | | Tue Jun 18 1991 20:34 | 5 |
| I've read about four of books so far and I thought they were really
good.Mind you I have'nt read to many SF books, the last one was
THE LEGEND OF HUMA which is part of a series of three I believe.
The series is titled Legends by the same two authors I think, It's
been a while since I read it and I'm on the night shift.
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| 527.6 | Heroes | PAKORA::GPIKE | | Tue Jun 18 1991 22:33 | 8 |
| You can tell it's knocking off time as I made a mistake in the last
note ,it was'nt Legends but Heroes that was the title of the series.
It centered arround the life of the Knight Huma and his fight to be
a knght like his father before him.It also covers the first battle
of Kyrnn against the dark queen and her minions and the search for
the famed dragonlance.It was good to read ,I have'nt read any others i
in the series yet but that will be rectified very shortly,like
tomorrow.
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| 527.7 | Twins | VERGA::THURBER | | Wed Jun 19 1991 11:52 | 9 |
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If you haven't already, read the twin's trilogy (I can't for the life
of me remember any titles). I thougth that was the best, I tried
reading some of the other ones and just couldn't get into them like I
did with the twin's series.
Chaos
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| 527.8 | | BHUNA::GPIKE | | Sun Sep 29 1991 11:58 | 6 |
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Are there any other titles out other than those mentioned already.
cheers gordon....
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