Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Dragons of a Summer Flame

Summer Flame I think is my favorite DragonLance book so far; is that lame? Its kind of like saying Return of the King is your favorite LotR book. I mean, you obviously read all the previous books, if you hadn't, this book would make no sense at all. So is it really your favorite? Or is it just the culmination of all the things you loved about everything that you've read previously. I guess I would have to go with the latter. Considering that as I read them, each book became my new favorite. Then again, now that I've finished them I can choose which previous books in the series I liked more than others. So I guess I'll recant my judgement until I'm actually finished with Summer Flame... although I'm pretty damn close.

I love having a hardcover book. Those softcovers are like the size of your palm, with print the size of a beetle's toenail. You have to bend them into the 4th dimension just to get a decent vantage point, or allow light particles to reach the page. My hardcover (which I obtained for 75 cents thanks to half.com... though I would have gladly paid $1.50 for it) is nice and tall, with stark white pages and text size rivalling the 'large print' versions of Readers Digest my grandpa used to read. I've smoked through this book, I've got about 110 pages left. Happy to know I'll have it finished before I take my trip in the very near future.

Which brings me to my next subject. The last 9 books I've read were DragonLance, and I'm going to take a break. Conveniently DosF is a book that marks an ending and a new beginning for the DragonLance saga, so it will be the perfect time to put my campaign on hiatus. I think I'm going to take a break from the fantasy genre altogether. I emplore you to recommend me something. Don't be shy. Go on now, click the comments link right below. I like books by Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palanuik (sp.. don't feel like looking it up) Douglas Adams... Philosphy/Satire with a hint of boorish, lewd humor. Or something completely different, you choose...

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