Free Ebook The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
However, some people will seek for the best seller publication to review as the initial recommendation. This is why; this The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman exists to fulfil your necessity. Some people like reading this publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman because of this popular publication, but some love this due to preferred author. Or, several also like reading this publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman because they really need to read this publication. It can be the one that actually like reading.
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Free Ebook The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
When you are rushed of task target date and also have no idea to obtain motivation, The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman book is among your solutions to take. Book The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman will certainly offer you the appropriate source and also point to get motivations. It is not just about the tasks for politic business, administration, economics, as well as other. Some got jobs making some fiction your jobs likewise need motivations to get over the job. As exactly what you require, this The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman will most likely be your choice.
By reviewing The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, you can understand the understanding and also points more, not just regarding what you obtain from individuals to individuals. Book The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman will certainly be more trusted. As this The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, it will actually provide you the good idea to be successful. It is not just for you to be success in particular life; you can be effective in everything. The success can be started by understanding the fundamental understanding and do actions.
From the mix of knowledge as well as activities, someone can enhance their ability and capacity. It will lead them to live and work much better. This is why, the pupils, employees, and even employers need to have reading behavior for publications. Any kind of publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman will offer specific understanding to take all advantages. This is exactly what this The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman tells you. It will include even more understanding of you to life as well as work better. The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Try it and also show it.
Based upon some experiences of many people, it remains in truth that reading this The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman can help them to make far better selection and also provide even more encounter. If you intend to be one of them, let's purchase this publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman by downloading the book on web link download in this website. You could get the soft data of this publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman to download as well as deposit in your readily available digital devices. Just what are you awaiting? Let get this publication The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman on-line and also review them in at any time and any kind of area you will check out. It will not encumber you to bring heavy book The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance Legends), By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman inside of your bag.
An all-new, fully annotated version of a classic Weis & Hickman trilogy.
This annotated version of Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins contains extensive notes from New York Times best-selling authors Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, as well as commentary from the original members of the Dragonlance setting conceptual team. The titles in this collection, though now almost two decades old, continue to be among the most popular books in the entire publishing line from Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
- Sales Rank: #532139 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Wizards of the Coast
- Published on: 2003-09-01
- Released on: 2003-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 2.40" w x 6.40" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 1312 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Margaret Weis is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman. She is also the author of the Star of the Guardian novels and co-authored with Don Perrin the novels Robot Blues, Knights of the Black Earth, Brothers in Arms, The Doom Brigade, Draconian Measures, and Hung Out.
Tracy Hickman, in addition to his work on the Dragonlance line, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel The Immortals.
Most helpful customer reviews
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Annotations detract from the story.
By Chip Hunter
The Legends Trilogy definitely deserves a 5-star rating. I rate this edition as 3-star strictly because of the annotations.
Legends follows up the great Chronicles trilogy, with Raistlin, Caramon, and Tas embarking on a time-traveling adventure with enormous consequences for the entire world of Krynn. The story takes on a much more personal feeling in Legends, with the focus being narrowed to a few key characters and the plot seemingly less epic than the previous trilogy (even though the events have a larger potential impact on the world). This trilogy also has a darker and more serious feel, with much more emotional clarity and desperate circumstances. The characters are forced to make difficult sacrifices and each seems to fight their own form of depression.
The main premise focuses on Raistlin's efforts to become the most powerful mage of all time and challenge the gods themselves. Caramon and Crysiana fight their own personal battles to discover themselves and achieve peace with the world. Tas basically tags along in innocent curiosity and a desire to help his friends.
The annotations of this version add nothing to the story. I was hoping for interesting insights from the authors telling about their views of what the various characters are thinking or what really happened in alluded to events. Instead you get a whole bunch of repetitive and obvious commentary along with self-important glorifications of the authors' talent and foresight. This was my fourth journey through the Legends trilogy and it was by far the least enjoyable due to the distracting influence of pointless annotations. You would think that you'd be able to just ignore the commentary, but its impossible as you keep telling yourself that there must be at least a little useful information only to be disappointed time and again.
While the Legends trilogy is awesome, pick a different version than this one to enjoy.
23 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
TRH, give us a break!
By granolaking
Even if you loved Legends, the initials TRH will get on your last NERVE before you finish this book. Tracy Hickman's commentary is SO annoying! Margaret Weis's notes are enlightening and entertaining, but Hickman wants to drive into your head that HE planned the War of Souls books and "the One God" well in advance... something that NONE of the text he refers to in these comments supports! It's incredible. Throughout all three novels, TRH tells you how wonderful he is, points out all of the ideas that were his and how creative they are, tells you how epic his writing is (with comparisons from Greek mythology!), and generally lets his fan mail go to his head. If you know the story of Legends, you know a lot of it centered on the pride of two of the main characters. Perhaps TRH should learn a lesson from them. From his comments, his tragic flaw is all-to-easy to spot! Although it is a bit entertaining for him to tell you how pride is a terrible, sad thing while he constantly reminds you how beautiful his life and writing are, it's more annoying than anything else. Crysania, anyone?
If you've read Dragonlance Legends before, save yourself the misery and skip this annotated version. If you haven't, get the paperbacks instead. They'd get 5 out of 5.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent and engrossing story, poor commentary
By Michael Varga
Let's face it: The Dragonlance books will never be classic literature. Weiss and Hickman might make a decent writing team (Weiss can apparantly hold Hickman in check while Hickman can moderate Weiss' tendancy towards over emotive writing), but they're certainly not the best.
This story, though, the three books that make up the Legends Trilogy, are an excellent sequal series to the truly excellent Chronicles. Though they do tend to fall into the trap of "last time . . ." repetitiveness and tell vs. show, for the most part, the books are engrossing and extremely interesting. Character development is the name of this game rather than the overarching, "zoomed-out" approach of the original Chronicles. Characters that we barely got to know the last time begin to really grow and evolve into something other than their archetypes.
Caramon, the big burly "meat-shield" (if I may borrow an RPG term) warrior type was originally nothing more than a head clunking, thick headed, but exceedingly loyal puppy with a sword character: albeit an entertaining one. When we are reintroduced to him in the opening chapters of Legends, we find not the brash young warrior that he used to be, but a slovenly, drunk shell of a man, mourning the loss of a brother that we know is willing and able to tear his twin brother to shreds. We see Caramon hit absolute bottom (we konw this because the authors so kindly tell us so) early on and then begin the slow, arduous crawl out of his pit and into an even darker time of his life where he must confront the twin he used to protect lovingly and confront himself as well.
Raistlin, the twin brother of Caramon, whom we all know was at least a bit megalomanaical, is pushed so far into his archetype (but never stereotype) by the authors that the reader is utterly astonished when the full details of his plans come to light. Delighting in cruelty and complete control, Raistlin leads those who serve him straight into hell (literally) while they follow along gleefully, caught up in his strange charisma like moths drawn to a flame. The change in Raistlin, if one can even identify such a change, happens suddenly and tragicly.
Tasslehoff is again along for the ride as comic relief, but we are given the chance to look deeper into the sticky-fingered little thief than before, revealing a great wealth of character and fortitude that could only be guessed at before. Sure, he has more than his fair share of one-liners, but Tasslehoff manages to grow beyond his comic relief role into a wonderful and lovable character.
The plot itself is complicated, extensive, and well planned out if fumbled only occasionaly. I've found that afer three run-throughs, I've managed to wrap my head around everything that's going on in this book and, though as I said it's not "literature" in the strictest sense of the word, it's certainly interesting. Time travel, always a sticky subject for fantasy and science-fiction writers, is the main plot element, but it almost never becomes the main theme. That the characters have traveled back in time centuries into the past is nearly besides the point. The thematic elements are always centered around dysfunctional relationships, love, hate, lust, and adventure. The backdrop of pre-Cataclysmic Istar (which is a vaguely obvious metaphor for organized and traditional church structures in the modern world) merely reflects and parallels the emotional and social troubles of the heroes.
There is a major drawback to this edition of the novels, however. The notations -- which in the Annotated Chronicles were interesting, logical, and relavent -- are intrusive and stupid at times. Tracy Hickman seems absolutely determined to claim credit for the entirety of the Dragonlance saga and link it inextricably to his own Mormon faith (though the connections are tenuous at best). Weiss, on the other hand, comes through again with her usual style and intelligence providing usefull and enlightening commentary along with Michael Williams (the poet of the Dragonlance Saga).
Four stars for the story itself, but only two for this particular edition.
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman PDF
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman EPub
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Doc
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman iBooks
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman rtf
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Mobipocket
The Annotated legends (Dragonlance Legends), by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar