Lorna Smithers
Scribe
I first read the Dragonlance books (the Chronicles trilogy and Twins trilogy and some of the surrounding novels) when I was at high school twenty years ago. I've recently returned to them and found the first one, Dragons of Autumn Twilight almost unreadable because the plot was so cheesey and action based with way too much goblin head bashing and appallingly flat villains. However the second book, Dragons of Winter Night, picked up part way through with Lorac's Nightmare and the tension between the characters beginning to build. I really enjoyed the development of the plot surrounding the twins, Raistlin and Caramon, and Tanis's conflict about his relationships with Laurana and Kitiara and loved Tas as a character. The ending of the third book, Dragons of Spring Dawning, was epic.
I'm now well into the 'Twins' trilogy and absolutely hooked on Raistlin-becoming-Fistandantilus and his conflict with Caramon. I really like Dalamar and wish he had a bigger part rather than minor characters such as the clerics in Istar and the dwarves of Thorbardin who I didn't feel much for at all.
I'm wondering if anyone else read the Dragonlance books when they were younger and has paid them a revisit and what they think of them now?
I'm now well into the 'Twins' trilogy and absolutely hooked on Raistlin-becoming-Fistandantilus and his conflict with Caramon. I really like Dalamar and wish he had a bigger part rather than minor characters such as the clerics in Istar and the dwarves of Thorbardin who I didn't feel much for at all.
I'm wondering if anyone else read the Dragonlance books when they were younger and has paid them a revisit and what they think of them now?