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And so the fifth volume of the Tales series is read out. One more to go. It took me longer than expected and desired. Like the others, however, there are good and not good stories in it, making the novel on a whole not super, but average. Then again, it concerns seperate tales of low importance in the storyline of Dragonlance and Krynn.
Not good (enough) for me: - The Word And The Silence - Seekers - Ogre Unaware - The Voyage Of The Sunchaser
Good, but never super: - Mark Of The Flame, Mark Of The Word - The Bargain Driver - No Gods, No Heroes - Into Shadow, Into Light - The Cobbler's Son - The High Priest Of Halcyon - True Knight ( )
Even for genre fiction, a lot of this is pretty bad. Looking through it these days, it's difficult to understand why, exactly, I thought that this was a great fantasy world. ( )
The world was forged upon three pillars: good, evil, neutrality. Introduction
On Solamnia's castles / ravens alight, / dark and unnumbered / like a year of deaths, / and dreamt on the battlements, / fixed and holy, / are the signs of the Order / Kingfisher and Rose— The Word and the Silence
It began when I was fourteen, the burning, in the winter that the fires raged on the peninsula. Mark of the Flame, Mark of the Word
I'll give you the two bronze knives, the string of elven beads, and the silver drinking horn, but that is my final offer." The Bargain Driver
Gylar Radilan, of Lader's Knoll, set his mother's hand back onto her chest, over the rumpled blanket. Seekers
The road was blocked just over the crest of the hill. No Gods, No Heroes
The knight stalked across the hellish landscape, sword in hand. Into Shadow, Into Light
Through most of a day—from when the sun was high overhead until now, when the sun was gone behind the dagger-spire peaks of the Khalikist Mountains and night birds heralded the first stars glimpsed above—through those hours and those miles he had trailed the puny ones, thinking they might lead him to others of their kind. Ogre Unaware
The Authentic Field Reports of Walnut Arskin / To Astinus of Palanthas, / As Set Down by Me, Walnut, / Foster Son of Jeraim Arskin, / Famed Amanuensis, Scribe of Astinus, / and Licensed Cobbler / (Open All Week Long) / Newshore-Near-Gwynned, North Island, Ergoth The Cobbler's Son
A dense red haze surrounded the sun in a hot, silent sky. The Voyage of the Sunchaser
From the Continuing Research of Foryth Teel, Chief Scribe Assisting Astinus, Eternal Lorekeeper of Krynn. The High Priest of Halcyon
Nikol and Brother Michael left the Lost Citadel and traveled the forest, now bereft of its enchantment, with the dazed and bewildered expressions of those who have undergone some awful, wondrous experience and who do not, on reflection, believe in it. True Knight
Not good (enough) for me:
- The Word And The Silence
- Seekers
- Ogre Unaware
- The Voyage Of The Sunchaser
Good, but never super:
- Mark Of The Flame, Mark Of The Word
- The Bargain Driver
- No Gods, No Heroes
- Into Shadow, Into Light
- The Cobbler's Son
- The High Priest Of Halcyon
- True Knight ( )