![]() No onscreen sex, although there is some heavy longing (think descriptions Fabio on a book cover). ![]() There’s just not quite enough 80’s charm to attract anyone but the nerdiest nerds of all. Don’t enjoy fantasy? Roll your eyes at D&D? I suspect you’d probably get bored with Dragonlance. Should you read Dragonlance? If you enjoy fantasy as a genre and at any point in your life you were a fan of D&D, you probably should! They remain excellent for specific readers young and old and will likely entertain 14 year old’s today just as well as they did 30 years ago. For many in the 80’s and 90’s, the Dragonlance books became a gateway into the world of fantasy, even more than The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings because of their comparative simplicity. If you’re not familiar, the Dragonlance series is based on Dungeons and Dragons gameplay. An intrepid woman and her friends have inadvertantly altered the future of their world and now they must try to restore time in the thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series. Everything about Dragonlance screams “I was written in 1984” all over it, which is actually kind of charming. The plot was formulaic, with flat-as-a-pancake stereotypes instead of characters who I felt no attachment to, the pace slogged, the ending was lame, and the world building and peril felt straight out of a game of D&D. ![]() The audiobook was an especially effective time warp as the audio performance by Paul Boehmer sounds like it was recorded fresh off the line in 1984–even though the audio was produced in 2013! Imagine the dialogue in The Last Unicorn and you’ll get the idea.Īs an exercise in literature though, I found all three books lacking. So…did my grown-up reading experience live up to my happy childhood memories?Īs an exercise in visiting the past, I enjoyed myself. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 1)ĭragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 2)ĭragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3)Īh, junior high! I remember the Dragonlance books with early-teenage fondness, and I’ve been wanting to reconnect with them for years.
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