Originally posted by Gregory12... thats it? Dragonlance has over60 books, and if i am right... whitch is hardly ever... they are still writing a few
Dragonlance is mostly awful. On the other hand, Wheel of Time is, what, twelve books long already, and clearly isn't going anywhere. So, uh ... whichever.
12... thats it? Dragonlance has over60 books, and if i am right... whitch is hardly ever... they are still writing a few
"DragonLance" isn't a series like Wheel of Time is; it's just all of the books published by TSR that take place in that game world. I don't think any single DragonLance series is more than a trilogy, discounting the books that are only tied together by a commen theme ("ancient races," whatever).
Which makes the original question sort of meaningless, since different books are written by different authors. I have sort of a soft spot for the early Weiss/Hickman stuff (although I don't ever plan on rereading it), but the rest of it is about what you'd expect from books based on a Dungeons and Dragons game (i.e. bad).
ok.. i first want to say, have any of you actually read the books? and understood them? and no, Dragonlance books are NOT just books that are concerning different characters and settings in the same world. There is a book on just about every character in the group. Then there is the main story on all of them put together. And even tho there are different authors, that only gives us a chance to read somthing different, and not the same writing style. even tho i have only read 6 books so far, if you ask Council#13, he has read more than me, so hell know more.
"The group?" You mean the Heroes of the Lance? Yes, there are stories about every member of the group, some of which directly contradict each other--for example, the knight goes to one of the moons and meets a dragon, then doesn't believe in dragons in a book that's supposed to take place later. This is because the books about the individual heroes were written later, by different people, in an attempt by TSR to cash of the first trilogy's success.
And then--because I'm right about what DragonLance is, and you are not (if you've only read six books, it's no wonder you missed this stuff)--there are all of the DragonLance books that have nothing in common with each other except that they're set in the same world--one about Huma the knight, an d Kaz the minotaur, and one about the under-sea elves--the time has long passed since I could think of their names)--the ones about the three other tribes of elves, the one about the minotaur regiment, the one about the Dragons, the one about that sailor woman and her crew, two books about Weasle (if you really want, I could try to find the names of all these books, but it seems like sort of a waste of time), the Citadel of Magic trilogy, several story anthologies, and so forth.
Against my better judgment, I poked around Amazon and found the names of some of the books I listed above, plus a few others, all unrelated except that they occur on Krynn:
The Dragons
The Gully Dwarves
The Kagonesti
The Dargonesti
The Irda
Land of the Minotaurs
Fistandantalus Reborn
Vinas Solamnus
All of the New Adventures books (at least seven)
Children of the Plains
Brother of the Dragon
The Gates of Thorbarden
Weasel's Luck
Gallen Beknighted
The Magic of Krynn (anthology)
Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes (anthology)
I enjoyed them as a kid, but most of these authors are hacks. Even Weis and Hickman--the best of the bunch, but hardly literary superstars--are better in there non-DragonLance stuff, where they have the freedom to do their own thing.
You mean Knaak? I haven't read any DragonLance novels in a long time, but I believe that I considered The Legend of Huma, which he wrote, to be a very good book when I read it, and I think I liked Kaaz the Minotaur (although not as much); those are the only books I've read by him.
(Disclaimer: I had awful tastes as a kid)