Summer Flame Donezo

Indeed I finished DoSF last week, admittedly I was disappointed by the ending. I get the impression Weis & Hickman kind of wrote themselves into a corner trying to make it bigger and better than Chronicles. Their strength lies in the build-up and the gradual exposition, creating tensions and atmosphere. That's why the trilogies work so well, because it takes them three books and 1200 pages to get the point out. DoSF packed three books worth of material into just one book.

That said, the parts of DoSF that I liked were the best parts in the whole series that I've read. When the book was written in 1995, the company that owned DragonLance was going through some major changes of their own, as I gather. My purely unscientific explanation of the situation involves Weis & Hickman being asked to write a novel that will "drastically" overhaul the world of Krynn to make way for all sorts of new books and products in an attempt to sell the concept to a wider audience.

In any case I still enjoyed it thoroughly and it marks the perfect break point for me. I've found two non-fantasy novels to start up, but I still want suggestions from anyone who has a book to recommend me.

I bought a horror novel at a used bookstore in Vermont called Exquisite Corpse, which looks pretty cool, it has an American Psycho sort-of theme to it. And also I'll be bringing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance with me way out west.

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