Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles #1)[March 21, 2024]

[Yanique, Thread Master]

This is a Buddy Read for Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis starting on March 21, 2024.


Happy Reading!

[Chris]

Spot

[Felina]

Yay!!! Thank Yanique!!

[Nirkatze]

Dragonlance Chronicles:
1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Mar 21)
2. Dragons of Winter Night (April 21) [Link]
3. Dragons of Spring Dawning (May 21) [Link]

This is currently on sale on audible this month! It has... not so good reviews though...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Dragons-of...

[Felina]

Yeah, I tried to audiobook this one and the narrator was not good at all.

[Rob]

This was one of my first fantasy (non-little kid) audioboooks. I still have the cassette tapes. I remember the narrator being fine, but that's my inner 1980s teen talking.I think audible has a different narrator.

[Nyssa]

Hoping I can join this one too.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I didn't think these threads got made, over the summer...

Sorry for the confusion I caused, bringing up whether to make the threads, in the planning thread...

Spreadsheet snafu, on my part...

[Felina]

I do think the third one didn’t get made. Or at least I haven’t linked it to my planning thread yet

[Graeme]

I may join in. But I'd like to know a bit more about this series?

[Tammie]

I might join in on this one too. It's been years since I've read this and it was the series that got me into fantasy

[Felina]

Like what?

It was my first fantasy read. I loved these books and I made everybody I know read them and they all loved them too. It was a fun summer. I still have those old copies and they are beat to hell. Just like any loved books should be.

I’m a little nervous to do a reread. I know I’ve read so many better books since then and I’m afraid I’ll see the cracks this time around. 😬

[Tammie]

Yeah I'm afraid of the same thing Felina.

[Felina]

I’m actually surprised my rating is only 4 stars. I read them before I joined Goodreads so they were an add and rate.

[Felina]

Tammie wrote: "Yeah I'm afraid of the same thing Felina."

We can hold each others hands through it.

I had a HUGE crush on Raistlin. I’m curious to see if my older a wiser self feels differently.

[Nirkatze]

Felina wrote: "I do think the third one didn’t get made. Or at least I haven’t linked it to my planning thread yet"

Third one did get made!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nirkatze]

I've never actually read any Dragonlance, though I've read the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman. Hoping I'll be able to join, but not sure if I'll do eyebook or brave the bad audio...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Graeme wrote: "I may join in. But I'd like to know a bit more about this series?"

These were books, commissioned by Wizards of the Coast, to tell stories in the world of Dungeons & Dragons... there are a ton of trilogies set in this world/premise...

I believe the Dragonlance world is separate from the one with Drizzt Do'Urden... and that's about all I know...

[Felina]

I read a ton of the Dragonlance trilogies. But I didn’t like any of the ones not written by Weis and Hickman as a combo. I didn’t much like their solo stuff either.

[Chris]

Timelord Iain wrote: "I believe the Dragonlance world is separate from the one with Drizzt Do'Urden... and that's about all I know...
.."

Correct.

Dragonlance is set in the world of Krynn...(spelling?)

Drizzt's stories are part of the Forgotten Realms series, in the world of Faerun (again, spelling?)

[Narilka]

I am debating joining this. I loved these stories growing up and haven't reread it in years.

[Felina]

Krynn is correct. Never read Drizzt so I can neither confirm or deny the land or the spelling.

[Narilka]

Graeme wrote: "I may join in. But I'd like to know a bit more about this series?"

Iain is partially right.

The Dragonlance universe was created by Laura and Tracy Hickman back in the 80's while on the way to a job interview for TSR (the company who owned the property before Wizards of the Coast bought it in 1997). D&D at the time had plenty of dungeons but not enough dragons! This trilogy was inspired by actual table top gaming done to create the game modules and flesh out the world. I don't remember the story about how Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis became writing partners, though they obviously did.

The trilogy is ultra classic 80's writing. Lots of things that were fresh back in the day and are now tropes so don't expect everything to be for modern sensibilities ;)

[R.S.]

Great books. I devoured these when I was a Teen. Good to see they're still kicking around!

[Graeme]

Thanks Timelord Iain, and Narilka.

Much appreciated.

[Shaitarn]

I’ve just ordered a new copy (the three in one omnibus was all I could get) as I discovered last year bookworms had got into my original trilogy.

[Felina]

Bookworms? Is that an actual thing?

[Shaitarn]

Felina wrote: "Bookworms? Is that an actual thing?"

Technically there isn't a species called 'bookworm' but various insects have a grub-like stage where they will eat paper like caterpillars will eat cabbages; my husband thinks they're woodworm from the Edwardian writing desk I had, but I think they're the grubs of these little moths that appear every spring/summer. They chomped their way through my Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books, as well as Pern and some of my Elric novels. Nothing valuable, but I think some are impossible to get new now and are going to be difficult to replace.

So I hate bookworm.

[Felina]

That sucks!!

[Nirkatze]

oh yikes!! That is such a sad story!!

[Shaitarn]

It could’ve been worse; it was upstairs where I had my TSR novels with a few others; most of my books are downstairs. If they’d munched through that lot, I would’ve been in tears.

And my colleague at work thinks I’m crazy, because I was ranting about bookworm with some pretty foul language when I first discovered it!😄

[Nirkatze]

Oh thank goodness! .... TSR?

[Chris]

Nirkatze wrote: "Oh thank goodness! .... TSR?"

The original publisher of these books, later bought out by Wizards of the Coast.

[Nirkatze]

Chris wrote: "Nirkatze wrote: "Oh thank goodness! .... TSR?"

The original publisher of these books, later bought out by Wizards of the Coast."

OH I would never have guessed that. Thank you.

[Felina]

I’m starting this one. I’m really excited.

[Felina]

Chapter 2 (view spoiler)[ Raistlin was my first book boyfriend. And the description of him doesn’t mean anything to what he looks like in my head. Still love him. *drools* (hide spoiler)]

[Chris]

I'm almost done with the ebook I've been working on, and will shift to this at that point....

[RachelG.]

I am currently on Chapter 7 and really enjoying the story so far, getting to know the characters and the quest. I have not read these before.

[RachelG.]

Chapter 13: At this point I won't be surprised if (view spoiler)[ the dwarf (hide spoiler)] dies. He keeps having close calls.

[Felina]

Are you a first time Dragonlancer?

[Alain]

Read (All Dragonlance books) as teen. Awesome times!
Probably will again. Soon

[Felina]

I read most of them as a teen. I’m looking forward to going back through them.

[RachelG.]

I haven't read any of them before.

[Felina]

Welcome! I’m jealous.

[Felina]

I just finished. I read these over and over in highschool but aside from getting a few chapters in and then forgetting about it, I haven’t read them since. I had this rated as an 4 star but I loved these so I’m not sure why. This was so nostalgic! This was my first fantasy book and I remember having all my friends and cousins and my brother read it. They all loved it. I decided to write a fantasy novel with one of my friends and we mapped it all out and of course it went nowhere. It was a pretty good idea and we had the first 10 pages written and it wasn’t bad. Damn, good times.

I remembered some things as I was reading but if you’d have asked me to give a brief overview before I read it, I don’t think I could have. Spoiler for future books (view spoiler)[ Like, I remember the deal with Kitiara and where she is. I remember that Caramon and Tika get together but not how. Spoiler for twins trilogy (view spoiler)[ I remember that Raistlin is Fistandantalus (or however that’s spelled) (hide spoiler)], I remember that Fizzban was a god maybe but not which. (hide spoiler)]

[Nirkatze]

Running really late on this, but I'm looking forward to it--I haven't read any Dragonlance, but I read the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman ages ago... I want to eye-read this but am going pretty slow on eye-reads right now...

[Chris]

Started last night....

This is a reread for me, and I only had a few minutes before bed but raced through three chapters. Definite book candy.

[Tammie]

I'm really tempted to reread this but I just don't have the time right now. I'll probably follow the discussion anyway though to see what everyone says.

[Chris]

Tammie wrote: "I'm really tempted to reread this but I just don't have the time right now. I'll probably follow the discussion anyway though to see what everyone says."



Join us....

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Just started this morning. The writing is nice and immersive so I think it'll be an easy one to fly right through.