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Interesting scenario Larry Send a noteboard - 14/09/2012 10:16:11 PM
i've read both the trilogies and remember them with great warmth. I wouldn't read them again though and I definitely read them at the right time (early teens, playing RPG games etc)

I don't see what's wrong with them, they're no different to a comic book film or CGi fest or pop CD or chippy tea. it's not going to benefit your mind or body in any great way, but i enjoy it.


As I said above, I only read them (and reviewed them in this fashion) because a woman (okay, the one who controls rabid squirrels ;)) "asked" me to do so :P Otherwise, I'd have no interest, since I didn't when I was growing up, as these sorts of stories rarely, if ever, appeal to me. Matters of taste and all (although I do understand some of their appeal to others) :D

with no history of playing RPG/D&D games. you (one) wouldn't pick them out for their cover art unless the cover art appealed to them (others). once picking it up, the blurb wouldn't appeal to a passing bookshelf peruser. so you (actually you) are completely and utterly, unforgivably not the target audience.


Unforgivably? :P Maybe totally not, but unforgivably sounds rather like I'm being condemned to Hell for not being a target D&D person :P

in fact it's not even the quality of the writing. would you have enjoyed those trilogies had they have been written (takes 10 minutes to research someone) by William Shakespeare...that shouldn't have needed research really, but you get my point


Interesting question. There are subject matters that I really do not enjoy reading (say, the profile of a pedophile), yet Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita wrote a classic. So perhaps the authors can, to a limited degree, transcend the chosen literary genre?

would any writer have made that content interest to you? plus imagine if it was a dante or milton or james joyce. it would have been at least double again the length and possibly in prose (what rhymes with Guenhwyvar?) and would you really have enjoyed slogging through Raistlin's stream of consciousness using that stream of consciousness technique that James Joyce (born 1882, died 1941) perfected?


I like to think that my own humble sonnet was a bit more interesting than what Weis and Hickman wrote ;) But that's a good point. I think it depends upon reader tastes. I like a story written with a good style to it (one that fits the tale or perhaps transforms it), as style is integral to a tale (even Weis and Hickman have a style; it's just a very poorly-presented one :P) and I think Joyce so totally could have invented words that rhyme with Guenhwyvar :P
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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This may be one of the most dire reviews you shall ever read Larry - 09/09/2012 09:12:25 PM 2475 Views
Certainly one of the most original, you get points for that. Legolas - 09/09/2012 10:39:00 PM 1694 Views
Well... Larry - 09/09/2012 10:57:25 PM 1710 Views
A review of a D&D bestiary could be more dire. Stephen - 09/09/2012 11:29:17 PM 1541 Views
Perhaps Larry - 09/09/2012 11:50:20 PM 1636 Views
Hey now. Owlbears are awesome. lord-of-shadow - 11/09/2012 02:35:28 AM 1890 Views
That page is painful to behold Stephen - 11/09/2012 03:09:29 AM 1645 Views
They are popular as they are fun, easy reading books Wibble - 10/09/2012 12:11:24 AM 1622 Views
"Popular", "Fun," and "Easy" doesn't have to be equated with poorly-written Larry - 10/09/2012 12:16:27 AM 1861 Views
Poorly written by what standard? Wibble - 10/09/2012 12:29:17 AM 1720 Views
By the standards of what I enjoyed as a nine year-old? Larry - 10/09/2012 01:04:12 AM 1674 Views
So like I said, by the standards of Elitist Literary Snobs Wibble - 11/09/2012 12:03:08 AM 1745 Views
Nice attempt at sophistry, but alas, it fails Larry - 11/09/2012 12:38:24 AM 1677 Views
Was that meant to make any sense? Wibble - 11/09/2012 01:43:13 AM 1888 Views
Re: Was that meant to make any sense? Larry - 11/09/2012 01:54:23 AM 1680 Views
I'm with Wibble on this (big surprise) HyogaRott - 12/09/2012 03:07:53 PM 1750 Views
Heh. James - 12/09/2012 03:43:52 PM 1900 Views
Pretty much so Larry - 12/09/2012 04:19:35 PM 1855 Views
When did you put up that header? Stephen - 12/09/2012 04:35:20 PM 1685 Views
I didn't put it up Larry - 12/09/2012 04:51:32 PM 1582 Views
I shall tread lightly so. Stephen - 12/09/2012 06:15:51 PM 1707 Views
Larry - 12/09/2012 07:25:29 PM 1556 Views
+6 health? What game are you playing? Tom - 12/09/2012 07:52:52 PM 1610 Views
The Game of Life? Larry - 12/09/2012 08:23:53 PM 1661 Views
Re: Pretty much so HyogaRott - 12/09/2012 08:50:57 PM 1704 Views
You apparently do not read my blog/reviews much Larry - 12/09/2012 09:07:18 PM 1722 Views
Actually, I read them almost never HyogaRott - 13/09/2012 03:07:48 PM 1730 Views
I think my IQ dropped a little bit when I parsed what you said Larry - 13/09/2012 04:16:21 PM 1694 Views
Yep, your usual rebuttal... *NM* HyogaRott - 17/09/2012 02:14:56 PM 866 Views
No, not really Larry - 17/09/2012 06:25:15 PM 1536 Views
Yes, Yes, wrap yourself in arrogance and declare yourself correct until your opposite gets bored... HyogaRott - 17/09/2012 11:12:17 PM 1816 Views
Nah, I just wipe my ass with arrogance Larry - 18/09/2012 12:23:44 AM 2067 Views
The last word with me is rather difficult to obtain HyogaRott - 18/09/2012 02:48:03 PM 1623 Views
Don't try to argue with them. They've made their judgments. They are better than you. lord-of-shadow - 10/09/2012 09:36:17 PM 1645 Views
Defensive much? *NM* Larry - 10/09/2012 10:31:17 PM 898 Views
Perhaps. It's annoying, because I tend to agree with you guys - you and Tom and Stephen. lord-of-shadow - 11/09/2012 02:32:28 AM 1669 Views
The odd thing that there wasn't any belittling on my part -see other response. *NM* Larry - 11/09/2012 03:17:36 AM 821 Views
For the record, I wasn't trying to be condescending in my response. Tom - 11/09/2012 05:52:29 PM 1675 Views
He never said you couldn't enjoy it. Stephen - 10/09/2012 11:10:11 PM 1788 Views
Indeed Larry - 10/09/2012 11:17:20 PM 1636 Views
But they aren't. Wibble - 10/09/2012 11:48:14 PM 1678 Views
Prove it. *NM* Stephen - 11/09/2012 03:12:17 AM 834 Views
He also went on to compare liking the books to having the standards of a nine-year-old. lord-of-shadow - 11/09/2012 02:34:18 AM 1643 Views
You didn't read what I said very well then Larry - 11/09/2012 03:16:21 AM 1633 Views
You're right. In the context of this thread, I'm basically acting like a raving lunatic. lord-of-shadow - 11/09/2012 02:48:19 PM 1671 Views
It's not like any of us have ever been innocent 100% of the time Larry - 11/09/2012 03:49:22 PM 1646 Views
I believe that they were not meant for adults. Tom - 10/09/2012 12:30:05 AM 1676 Views
Very few of my friends were reading the books; some played the game, though Larry - 10/09/2012 01:06:07 AM 1642 Views
Basically, both get dubious kudos for trying something new by the dire standards of the day. Werthead - 10/09/2012 11:38:22 PM 1708 Views
Interesting point Larry - 11/09/2012 12:41:01 AM 1626 Views
Are you aware of the game's alignment rules? Some of the novels struggle with this. Werthead - 12/09/2012 10:58:37 PM 1695 Views
Not aware of it at all until now Larry - 12/09/2012 11:18:57 PM 1666 Views
How is that possible? Tom - 12/09/2012 11:28:33 PM 1630 Views
My dad was (and is) influenced by Evangelicals Larry - 13/09/2012 12:17:36 AM 1548 Views
Wait, so you didn't read the Chronicles first? Tom - 13/09/2012 02:12:13 PM 1563 Views
No Larry - 13/09/2012 02:18:03 PM 1620 Views
Well, it's sort of like starting Jordan at Lord of Chaos Tom - 13/09/2012 05:18:23 PM 1648 Views
Oddly enough, I started WoT at CoS in November 1997 Larry - 13/09/2012 05:56:04 PM 1562 Views
Chronicles is considerably weaker Werthead - 13/09/2012 11:14:38 PM 1655 Views
Needless to say, once I finish reading the Icewind Dale trilogy, I'm done with D&D Larry - 14/09/2012 12:38:47 AM 1791 Views
12 modules, not 15 Tom - 14/09/2012 02:55:39 PM 1828 Views
These threads are so much better than the rape threads! *NM* Dan - 12/09/2012 04:03:01 AM 934 Views
You're just waiting to see if I'll use hexameter in the next one *NM* Larry - 12/09/2012 04:32:31 AM 770 Views
When do we get to see some alexandrines? *NM* Stephen - 12/09/2012 12:41:29 PM 826 Views
Or quatrains? Larry - 12/09/2012 03:25:13 PM 1534 Views
And having now finished Dragonlance: Legends, its very own sonnet Larry - 13/09/2012 12:31:51 PM 1633 Views
At least you didn't read the Baldur's Gate novelizations beetnemesis - 14/09/2012 04:29:17 AM 1567 Views
Sssssh! Larry - 14/09/2012 05:10:19 AM 1617 Views
People become lesbians for no reason! beetnemesis - 17/09/2012 04:34:20 PM 1491 Views
I think my IQ dropped further upon learning of this Larry - 17/09/2012 06:29:29 PM 1516 Views
Baldurs Gate wooooo! Foxhead - 14/09/2012 04:13:34 PM 1756 Views
Eh, Star Wars Expanded Universe I could see reading. Some of them are supposed to be good beetnemesis - 17/09/2012 04:37:05 PM 1992 Views
Is the review dire because of the subject or the sonnet form? Foxhead - 14/09/2012 04:24:37 PM 1677 Views
Both Larry - 14/09/2012 04:36:59 PM 1593 Views
it would be unusual for someone to just randomly pick books like that up Foxhead - 14/09/2012 05:05:37 PM 1904 Views
Interesting scenario Larry - 14/09/2012 10:16:11 PM 1607 Views
Re: Interesting scenario Foxhead - 15/09/2012 09:55:59 AM 1862 Views
Re: Interesting scenario Larry - 17/09/2012 06:28:57 PM 1514 Views
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