01-03-2003, 06:07 PM | #1 |
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okay, they look interesting but there are so many! what's the first one?
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01-04-2003, 12:49 AM | #2 |
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That is a question that will give even the most diegard fan a headache, which series?
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01-04-2003, 02:23 AM | #3 |
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I remember reading a few of these when I was younger (I also remember them being a load of crap, but that is by-the-by).
Anyhow, here's the bilbliography - http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x...l/bibliography |
01-06-2003, 06:01 PM | #4 |
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so you don't have to start from the beginning or whatever? i meant what was the very first dragonlance book ever published, but is it one of those series where they aren't all related to one another? this is terribly confusing
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01-06-2003, 06:18 PM | #5 |
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The Chronicles and Legends run in chronological order......(being 1st and 2nd printed respectively).......I gave up after the Legends trilogy so the books thereafter I can't really comment on
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01-06-2003, 08:04 PM | #6 |
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what a puzzlement! i'm also trying to figure out the Thieves world series and i'm just as confused about that (geez, what you'll go through to read a book...) lol
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01-08-2003, 02:24 AM | #7 |
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight was the first DL book, I believe. Then comes Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning; Dragons of Summer Flame doesn't happen till quite a while afterwards.
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01-10-2003, 05:03 PM | #8 |
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thank you!!! blows kisses lol
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01-13-2003, 06:03 PM | #9 |
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oh thank you! thank you! blows kisses lol
i think i replied to this all ready, but it seems all i did on the computor that day was erased! hmmm oops! i was right! oh well, sorry! Last edited by elvendrummer87 : 01-13-2003 at 06:05 PM. |
03-27-2003, 09:49 PM | #10 |
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Here it is, Coney.
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03-27-2003, 10:05 PM | #12 |
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Out of curiosity, I was wondering was it was you disliked about Dragonlance.
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The characters: Ach. *spits* ........stereotypical, shallow, 1 dimensional characters........bastardised from a hundred different lilterary sources...blech.........my friends kids have better personallities than these characters .......and they are 7 years old.... The writing: Hello! Weiss and Hickman? Atmosphere! Emotion??? Your writing should at least attempt to evoke these concepts ........oh and a little more descriptive writing doesn't hurt either.... The books were origininally comissioned by TSR as a promotional vehicle for their RPG setting, as soon as the books proved more popular than the RPG Weiss and Hickman were sacked (hooray) from the book front, though I believe they were later re-commisioned. To anyone wishing to read this pile of crud...........by all means read it, then go back to LotR.....it'll make you appreciate Tolkien so much more |
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03-27-2003, 10:29 PM | #14 |
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I didn't see anything wrong with the history or geography. The purpose of RPG's is to tell a story through a game. Though I definitely agree with you, the books that aren't game fanfic are better.
Shallow...one dimensional...Hmm...I certainly didn't notice. Especially Raistlin. He didn't seem shallow at all to me. Though as for stereotypical, I think there may have been a bit of that, though not so much with the Elves. -shakes head- You just better not read anything of mine. I can't stand it the way every character is always unusual, they always are rather different from the norm for their peers, so I make my characters closer to the norm, which I suppose would make them stereotyped. Descriptive writing...something that lacked a bit in Tolkien. As for the actual writing style, though, it's been a long time since I've read it. Understand, I'm not saying that DragonLance is great or anything; I think there isn't a single game-based book I can think of that I like more than a single original book. But I didn't think it was that bad...
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Go read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Fafhird and the Grey Mouser (Lahnkmar, also used as an AD&D world) The Winter King (trilology) by Bernard Cornwell...... Those are real fantasy Last edited by Coney : 03-27-2003 at 11:11 PM. |
03-27-2003, 10:38 PM | #16 |
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HEY! You forgot the BELGARIAD AND MALLOREON!
Personally, I like Shannara, B&M...but I guess that's because I'm just halfwitted.
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03-27-2003, 10:48 PM | #18 |
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I didn't especially like the Sword of Shannara, as it was a rather blatant copy of LOTR's plot. But the others were much, much more original. As for boring, though, I don't know, as obviously we have rather different tastes in regards to fantasy.
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03-27-2003, 10:54 PM | #20 |
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Nope, none of them. Not yet. And probably not for a while. I just am rather busy, with school stuff and all. But I think I'll go reserve TC now at the library. In case I can't figure out, which is first?
Goodness me, I can't read books on the computer well at all! I downloaded UT, hoping to save the money, and I just could not get into it! I'm just gonna buy the book!
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