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This beautiful new leatherbound edition of the Dragonlance Chronicles saga marks the first time this story has ever been available for purchase in a premium format. A leather, embossed cover and gilt-edged pages bring a new level of sophistication to the three titles collected inside: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning. This annotated edition will display beautifully on any shelf and marks the Chronicles trilogy as one of the true classics in fantasy literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jewel in the crown of the DragonLance series, 13 Feb 2007

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This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance Collector's Edition) (Hardcover)

After having my original 3 book edition of the Chronicles covered in soup at the dinner table after it was "borrowed" (thanks, Dad!) I put into the back of my mind to buy another copy sooner or later. Then rumours started to float about of a new animated DragonLance movie that should put the likes of the last movies Dungeons and Dragons (pants) and Eragon (also pants) to shame, with Kiefer Sutherland headlining as Raistlin and the entire working crew receiving full support from the authors. So I looked up the website and lo and behold a picture of a shiny new book in hardcover and gilted edges. Since that meant "it's got shiny bits" (I am essentially a magpie) I proceeded to the checkout at Amazon and quite happily paid the thirty odd quid...

... which brings us to this review of self-justification via a guilty conscience to part with that amount of money for a book. This was the first novel in my pre-teens that ever encountered something called a "development arc", so in reading it again it took me straight back to those days where I followed Tanis et al with a sense of enjoyment I had not encountered with a book before. The characters all carry a sense of torment and have their own issues to deal with but what got me hooked was the group interaction between strong personalities that resonated throughout the series. That type of conflict between main characters was then highlighted for myself again in the short-lived sci-fi series Firefly - where the crew are all adults, trust each other implicitly and know they're good, but actually working with each other can produce awkward situations. For the Companions in DragonLance, their whole journey is not just to restore the Balance in the world, but also to change the sense of perspective in themselves at how they see that world.

Reading the first book again as an adult, it is clear to see that the authors were basically making the party "go here, then here then there" in a normal linear Dungeons and Dragons way - you can almost hear the roll of a 20 sided die in the background. Although the first book is deemed by many (including myself) as a classic, the height of the authors' craft reached nearer to their peak in the second and third books, where the characters were making choices for themselves and not necessarily because it was the moral thing to do because, hey, we're the good guys. By splitting the party up, the sense of danger became more imminent as the numbers were lower for each party and the conflict grew nastier - especially with the moral dilemmas going through Tanis's mind and also trying to see what Raistlin wanted to finally achieve.

The books are original in their scope of what the authors set out to achieve. Throughout the special edition, annotations by the authors are made on the margin of the main text. These provide many insights of how the authors got to a certain stage in their writing process and some have interesting personal asides.

This is, to sum up, brilliant. Gilding wasn't needed, the book shines by itself.

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56 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Special Edition, 28 Dec 2006

By J. M. Borek "Solipsist" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance Collector's Edition) (Hardcover)

This is a review of this particular edition and not a review of the story itself (which I would give 5 stars).

I was expecting a nice collectible copy (in 1 volume) of the original trilogy but instead this is a newly bound edition of the annotated chronicles. The original story is still there but there is the annoying side-bar annotation which make it difficult to concentrate on the main text because it gets pushed towards the center. Therefore if you intend to read this copy you will have to keep the book fully spread out on your lap and strain to read the text as it runs into the center of the book and becomes obscured by the fold.

I wonder why Wizards did not simply produce the original trilogy in a deluxe edition similar to editions we have seen for Lord of the Rings and other classic fantasy trilogies.

The art work is decent but the choice of selection is somewhat baffling. There is no apparent order to the full color pictures so they in no way correspond to the text. In fact, some of the pictures do not even belong to the story at all; several are from the Legends trilogy and even later books. Conspicuous by their abscence are some classic scenes such as the death of Sturm or Kitiara revealed as the dragon highlord.

For a $75 price tag you would think that the full color pages wouldn't be cheap gloss, but they are, and hence the thin text pages tend to stick to them.

The only good thing I can say, besides that the story itself is excellent, is that the binding is tight and well made, and the hand sewn red bookmark is a nice touch.

If you already own a good edition of the chronicles trilogy, and especially if you have the hardcover annotated chronicles in your possession, I would pass on this over priced copy.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition of an epic tale., 3 Nov 2006

By Brian LaShomb "bshomb" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance Collector's Edition) (Hardcover)

I love the Dragonlance stories. I own the old paperback CE of the Chronicles and the Legends. The presentation here is quite nice. The leather looks good, and the guilding is done nicely. There is a sewn in ribbon bookmark, and several color plates throughout the book (although none of Elmore's Death of Sturm, a puzzling absence). There is a fold out map in the back (not big, maybe legal size paper). There is a tribute to Keith Parkinson in the front, which is very fitting. He helped visualize the world of Krynn and it's characters. However, I wonder if this isn't just mostly the Annotated Edition earlier put out in a prettier package. Still, an excellent story, and I hope they bring out a matching Legends CE like this one.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Same old Chronicles, BEAUTIFUL new format, 10 Jan 2007

By Sheriece A. Farr "IBYU41" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragonlance Collector's Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is absolutely gorgeous! I didn't realize when I bought it that the book is really the Annotated Chronicles. Beautiful gold leafed pages, fantastic artwork. They did a great job on this one guys, it's worth buying the Chronicles again for this one!

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