Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55133 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 448 pages

Customer Reviews

Oh so close to being the perfect book!
This is FUN! There's no other word for it. The style is almost a roleplay, sweeping you along with the action and the plot, making each character individual and believable...

Of course, this is the place to start. The first book in the first trilogy. Before you know it, you'll be hunting down copies of the other two, and then the second trilogy... then the third... then all the rest besides!

And this is where we first meet Raistlin. Who doesn't love a dark-souled mage? Darling Raistlin, star of the series! If you've no idea what I mean, you'll have to start reading, but remember - I saw Raistlin first!

Mine! Heh heh heh!

Lightweight and charming.
This was one of the first fantasy books I read, in fact it is one of the books that really turned me on to reading.
The writing style is easy, especially when compared to the likes of Tolkien, making it very accessible. It could almost be a teen fantasy novel, if released today it may well be. think later harry potters only less hokey.
It has stood the test of time well, but i suppose fantasy usually does. A wonderful, magical fantasy saga begins here.

A blast from the past
Too many years ago for my mental comfort I used to play Dragonlance. At the time I read the Dragonlance Chronicles and I recently decided to go back and pay a visit. It was much what I remembered, and actually it fared badly with the number of quite good fantasy books I've read since.

It does read like fictionalised role-playing sessions. The team are several different people with different reasons for what they do and I'm really not sure that in the real world they would be anywhere near each other.

Still it's fun to revisit, and it reminds me of my college years, I still like Raistlin and the team of half-elf, dwarf, kender, dark mage, barbarian, warrior and knight have appeared in a lot of books since. The cliches are the but many of the cliches started here. The Draconians are interesting and the path to the truth is starting to become clear.

It's an interesting story but it's not the best. Worth the journey back but I'm not sure I want to read more soon. Someday I may but sometimes forward is the only way to go.