Sci-Fi & Fantasy Girlz discussion

Tor.com has a series of articles where they do a read or re-read if they are part of an older book series. They are now doing a re-read of The Dragonlance Chronicles.

Here's a link to their post:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/02/the-...

Dragonlance was my introduction to fantasy when I was a teenager. I can still remember convincing a friend to let me trade seats with her in class so I could see in the back of the class (I always sat at the first row) so I could sneak in some reading time of The Legend of Huma which was the first Dragonlance book I read and basically my introduction to fantasy.

I'm looking forward to this re-read. I'll try to follow along with the tor.com posts since it's time I read them again. The Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends series are the only books I've read more than once. I love them.

Are there any Dragonlance fans in this group?

I only read the first ones. Was that the Chronicles? Dragons of Autumn Twilight, etc. I enjoyed them very much, though I can barely remember anything about them now. I'd heard they were based on somebody's D&D game, and it made me wish my friends were the kind of people that would play D&D with me. It sounded like so much fun. I know some people at the time looked down on them because of the D&D connection, but they seemed like great stories to me!

Yoly wrote: "Tor.com has a series of articles where they do a read or re-read if they are part of an older book series. They are now doing a re-read of The Dragonlance Chronicles.

Here's a link to their post:
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yes i am, read most of those from the start but not read any in the last 10 years.

I read a bunch of these back in the nasty old 80's. Played the D&D adventures too. (I was Tanis, thank you.) It was so long ago that I don't really remember how far along in the series I got. It's all lumped in with Piers Anthony, Remo Williams and a lot of odd Star Trek novels....

But I'd give the first one a re-read. I might even still have that original copy around someplace, if it survived a forced purge of my book collection that happened in the mid-90's. (An event I still refer to as Bookageddon.)

Those books have a special place in my heart. I tried re-reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight last year for a re-read that was apparently going on reddit, but we never made it through the first update. I used it as an excuse to buy the Kindle version. I have my paperbacks that I bought brand new in 2000 but I've never touched them (all the Dragonlance books I read in high school were lent by a friend). I must have bought like 20 Dragonlance books that time but they're all sitting in a closet. I need an excuse to buy them on Kindle :)

While re-reading last year I did find some pieces of the text kind of cringe inducing, and found myself rolling my eyes quite often, something that had never happened before, maybe it is my age showing, ugh.

My favorite character when I first read the series was Raistlin, eventually as I got older I started getting fascinated with Kitiara, how she is a badass. To this day, she's my favorite female character in fiction, to the point that I tried convincing my husband that if we ever had a girl we would name her Kitiara.

I have read the Chronicles and Legends trilogies plenty of times but I never made it to Dragons of Summer Flame (I think it tells the story of their kids?) or the "newer" trilogy from 2007 The Lost Chronicles. I'm a terrible Dragonlance fan.

Gary now I'm interested in what happened in this Bookageddon of yours. Did you need the shelf space or just got sick of looking at some books?

Yoly wrote: "Gary now I'm interested in what happened in this Bookageddon of yours. Did you need the shelf space or just got sick of looking at some books?"

I lived out of the country for a few months and boxed up my book collection, but when I came back the folks who "stored" them for me (as a favor) had sold off more than half of them as "used" for a quarter each at a church fundraiser.

So, for instance, my signed copy of White Jazz by James Ellroy given to me as a birthday present... gone. My leatherbound complete set of the Sherlock Holmes series... gone. But those relatively valuable losses weren't the ones that really bug me. The much loved paperback copies of books like Dune, the Martian Chronicles, nearly everything by Roger Zelazny... pffft. That still makes me sad. Even losing things like the copies of Sue Grafton's A, B, C... mysteries. I didn't read another book by her for the silliest of reasons: I don't remember which one I read last, and now looking for where I left off makes me lament

A is for Abject
B is for Bookshelf
C is for Cruel
D is for Decimation
...

What a horrible thing to do! Not to mention unethical. How could they sell off things that didn't even belong to them??

Are you still friends?

Marina wrote: "What a horrible thing to do! Not to mention unethical. How could they sell off things that didn't even belong to them??

Are you still friends?"

"It was for charity" so why would I mind them selling off books I'd read already?

If you can imagine that.

Some of it is family-stuff, so that makes it a whole level of entanglement.

If it was me these people would still be hearing me talk about this 20 years later.

"Hi Uncle Bob, remember that time when you sold my precious books for charity? No? Funny, because I still remember..."

Wow. Still gobsmacked. These people are obviously not readers!

I totally loved The Dragonlance Chronicles when I read them back in the 80's. I wonder if I would still love them if I re-read them today?