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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
you got that right. the first book (the only one i bothered to read) was basically written in crayon. |
Yeah the first book is kind of childish, but it was basically written as a childrens novel. The series progresses a lot as you move through it to deal with much more darker and mature themes, growing with the reader (in the case of myself and many people of my age who started the series as a child and grew up with it, which is part of the draw).
There's a reason JK Rowling is a billionaire and Weis and Hickman are virtually unknown outside their small group of D&D novel reading rabid fans.
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Hey I can understand being attached to something because you liked it as a child. I have a ton of books that are incredibly mediocre by any standard, but I keep them and even read them over occasionally because of the sentimental value those stories have.
The difference is that you let your attachment to Dragonlance blind you into thinking it is either a) good writing, or b) good storytelling, when it fails rather horribly on both accounts.
I mean sure, you can like something even though it's cheesy and unoriginal and 'bad', some of the music on my MP3 speaks for that, but don't let the enjoyment of that thing fool you into thinking it's complex or original or 'good.'
Really, this discussion isn't worth much, because you haven't even read more than 1/6 of the series (which is actually much less if you're going to measure in total content, and not in book numbers). Your opinion on the matter of HP is pretty much invalid.
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couldnt agree more.
