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nextnever
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 Posted - 20 May 2005 : 07:04:42
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| Has anyone here read these books? Any thoughts or opinions on them??? I have a nice collection of fantasy books and got to a point where many titles and series just weren't interesting me enough to read them. But, when I saw Weis and Hickman came out with this series, I just had to check it out and got sucked right into those worlds... Is it Weis and Hickman bias, or is the "Death Gate Cycle" just as cool as the "Chronicles" or "Legends"? Don't get me wrong... I love those two series more than most and I know this is a site dedicated to "Dragonlance." I just think the "Death Gate" is every bit as good. |
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Sirch
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Posted - 26 May 2005 : 16:09:42
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I read and just... didnt like it as much. It was lacking soemthing for me that DL had a whole lot of.
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nextnever
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Posted - 27 May 2005 : 01:47:43
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"Chronicles" and "Legends," what I refer to as "The 'Lance;" all other Dragonlance books being peripheral, I consider an epic that rivals the LOTR (just for the record). Being an old gamer, they had everything I was familiar with. The exception were the Draconians. They gave it an edge that was something, more to me, than old AD&D. It should be noted that I played through most of the "War of the Lance" D%D modules before I ever read the books... The Patryns and Sartans, with their rune magic had the same effect, I guess. Weis and Hickman were pushing the envelope just a little further. Plus, the story was much more complex, involving 5 different worlds that are all intertwined. Their effort and attention to detail, along with the scope of this tale, is why I think it's just as good, although it certainly can't replace, "The Lance."
p.s. Thanks Sirch... I was beginning to feel shunned lol. |
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Sirch
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Posted - 27 May 2005 : 04:06:33
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I guess i just get a more emotional attatchment to DL then i did to the Deathgate cycle. I find myself just putting more of myself into the DL books... Maybe i didnt read into it enough... Ill put that on my list of rereads.
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Genghis
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Posted - 15 Jun 2005 : 20:48:36
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| It has been awhile since I read these, but I remember lovingthem. They are definitely not dragonlance. If you look at them as separate - pretend they are written by someone else or something - then these are very enjoyable and the setting is a really cool idea. Love the whole "elements" thing and traveling to different worlds. I thought they were great. I think I'm going to have to read them again now! |
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DoctorFlint
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Posted - 14 Feb 2006 : 05:10:42
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I too have enjoyed those books immensely. The first two being amazing. Actually the second, elven star was probably the best written but also the saddest. A whole race of mad tytans destroying a whole (hollow) planet. (Still can't get my head wrappped around a world within a planet!! with the whole planet being hollow with clouds and 4 suns in the core!!..man..that's a wild idea.how Weis and Hickman came up with that one..is beyond me. The third and fourth worlds, the world of stone and water were kinda not as interesting with weaker characters. It got more clever with the evil serpents. I loved the fact that Weis and Hickman..brought in ol' Fizban (Zifnab) and Tahikisis (represented by the evil serpents)
briding the worlds of Dragonlance to this world. That Paladine..exists on many planes of existance and many forces in the Universe. |
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zachrivenbark
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Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 20:56:35
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| I really liked the Death Gate cycle. Not as much as DL but close. I really liked the character that They made you think was Fizban! he was awesome |
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megan2u
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Canada
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Posted - 23 Jun 2006 : 22:18:11
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| I loved these books, my favourite being the 4th. With Grundle and Alake. I just found the characters (besides Haplo in the first couple of books) so complex and relatable. Could be made into TV movies, or even a year-long TV show. |
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Tasslehoff_Burrfoot
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Netherlands
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Posted - 19 Jul 2006 : 19:57:01
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This was the first Fantasy I read after LOTR. I've read it twice now and love it. Pryan truly is insanely huge. I still don't have a good picture of how Chelestra even looks like. A very original story.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die."
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masrock
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Posted - 31 Jul 2006 : 20:03:32
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Originally posted by zachrivenbark
I really liked the Death Gate cycle. Not as much as DL but close. I really liked the character that They made you think was Fizban! he was awesome
of course he was Fizban or Zifnab.....Banfiz, I forget now
This was one of the first series I bought in hardback..only read em the once though, Dragonlance has been read many many times. That says it all I suppose.
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Fruit flies like a banana |
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Michael R. Lipe
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Posted - 11 Sep 2006 : 20:18:41
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I loved this series... Highly recommended!
Like someone else mentioned.. I'ts hard to compare it to Dragonlance... Dragonlance is something I grew up with and it holds a seperate and special place in my heart.. but I did love the Death Gate Cycle and was completely sucked in when I read the series...
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Vassor Doss
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Posted - 25 Sep 2006 : 00:24:25
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I never read them. What is the first book called?
"Run? From this rabble?" |
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rtranson2
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Posted - 16 Oct 2006 : 19:58:19
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Originally posted by DoctorFlint
I too have enjoyed those books immensely. The first two being amazing. Actually the second, elven star was probably the best written but also the saddest. A whole race of mad tytans destroying a whole (hollow) planet. (Still can't get my head wrappped around a world within a planet!! with the whole planet being hollow with clouds and 4 suns in the core!!..man..that's a wild idea.how Weis and Hickman came up with that one..is beyond me. The third and fourth worlds, the world of stone and water were kinda not as interesting with weaker characters. It got more clever with the evil serpents. I loved the fact that Weis and Hickman..brought in ol' Fizban (Zifnab) and Tahikisis (represented by the evil serpents)
briding the worlds of Dragonlance to this world. That Paladine..exists on many planes of existance and many forces in the Universe.
The whole series was great, but that second book, wow. Best moment in the whole series was when a captain let the main characters know to just say they were going to do what the captain said they had to, then privately told them to just leave, it was hopeless, they were waiting to die. (Sorry that's worded a bit confusingly) What a sense of resignation, tiredness of the struggle.
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nextnever
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USA
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Posted - 21 Oct 2006 : 02:34:32
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| The 1st book is titled "Dragon Wing." I love how we're introduced to Hugh the Hand... |
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kender
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Posted - 06 Jan 2007 : 18:12:57
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excellent series!!! If you have the time to read the 7 books it is a very good read. At times it drags on but over all the story line is great. By the time you get to the 7th book you are so wrapped up in it that you can't put it down. I personally feel it is one of TH and MW's best work.
there's nothing more dangerous, than a bored Kender. |
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Tas kender hero
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Aug 2007 : 14:27:27
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wanted to get this topic back to the top again really liked the death gate cycle there great reads sirch really do put them on your re-read list you have to do all 7 over! Haplo is great gotta love his dog! and theres a dwarf called grundle i really liked her the only thing i didnt like was the fact that humans and elves could'nt have children. god if that were true we'd have no Tanis my world would crumble!
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