I'm a bit wary of comparing books I read twenty years apart.
I would say it doesn't touch George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire in terms of quality of writing, depth of characterisation or thoughtful world-building. However at the same time I started reading George R. R. Martin, I also read Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy/quartet/whatever and I would say and that reminded me a lot of Dragonlance (though Tad Williams' is a lot longer and I recall the characters less clearly, despite having read it more recently, so make of that what you will). I gave up on the Dragonlance books, deciding they had become padded and repetitive, halfway through the second trilogy so it may be that the too longness is something that crept in as the series progressed. I'm working off quite hazy memories here (I can't recall who the villian is, for instance, though I think its a dark lord, nor can I recall how the whole thing is resolved, I think discovering dragons place some part somewhere but I could be getting confused with Pern).
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Date: 2009-07-24 03:19 pm (UTC)I would say it doesn't touch George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire in terms of quality of writing, depth of characterisation or thoughtful world-building. However at the same time I started reading George R. R. Martin, I also read Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy/quartet/whatever and I would say and that reminded me a lot of Dragonlance (though Tad Williams' is a lot longer and I recall the characters less clearly, despite having read it more recently, so make of that what you will). I gave up on the Dragonlance books, deciding they had become padded and repetitive, halfway through the second trilogy so it may be that the too longness is something that crept in as the series progressed. I'm working off quite hazy memories here (I can't recall who the villian is, for instance, though I think its a dark lord, nor can I recall how the whole thing is resolved, I think discovering dragons place some part somewhere but I could be getting confused with Pern).