el-remmen
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In fact, I don't find him annoying at all.
I have been (slowly) re-reading the original Dragonlance Chronicles series ever since I found them in a used bookshop for less than two bucks each. I had not read them since the late 80s.
Anyway, I am nearly done with book two, but so far the thing that has struck me most (aside from the mediocre writing itself) is that for all the talk of kender being annoying and Tasslehoff Burrfoot being the epitome of the worse of that halfling offshoot in terms of stealing and doing foolish things (which to be honest, is also how I remembered him), I am finding him to be an absolute delight and his attitude and curiosity is a great antidote to the dour characters like Tanis and Sturm. On the other hand, Flint is the absolute worst and almost any scene where he is the focus makes me roll my eyes and start scanning ahead - whether it is his hyperbolic reaction to going on boats or anything Tass says - or his very foolish behavior and refusal to admit reality ("I wasn't seasick, I contracted a disease!" or "I am going to delay getting in canoe despite the fact that we're being pursued") or his awful treatment of his gully dwarf kin - to be much less entertaining or as rounded a character.
Maybe I am seeing why I never had a problem with his sudden heart attack and death in book 3 when I read it back in the day and kept hoping it'd happen in book two.
He's like everything wrong with the Peter Jackson film adaptation of Gimli x 1000.
That's it. That's all I have to say for now.
I have been (slowly) re-reading the original Dragonlance Chronicles series ever since I found them in a used bookshop for less than two bucks each. I had not read them since the late 80s.
Anyway, I am nearly done with book two, but so far the thing that has struck me most (aside from the mediocre writing itself) is that for all the talk of kender being annoying and Tasslehoff Burrfoot being the epitome of the worse of that halfling offshoot in terms of stealing and doing foolish things (which to be honest, is also how I remembered him), I am finding him to be an absolute delight and his attitude and curiosity is a great antidote to the dour characters like Tanis and Sturm. On the other hand, Flint is the absolute worst and almost any scene where he is the focus makes me roll my eyes and start scanning ahead - whether it is his hyperbolic reaction to going on boats or anything Tass says - or his very foolish behavior and refusal to admit reality ("I wasn't seasick, I contracted a disease!" or "I am going to delay getting in canoe despite the fact that we're being pursued") or his awful treatment of his gully dwarf kin - to be much less entertaining or as rounded a character.
Maybe I am seeing why I never had a problem with his sudden heart attack and death in book 3 when I read it back in the day and kept hoping it'd happen in book two.
He's like everything wrong with the Peter Jackson film adaptation of Gimli x 1000.
That's it. That's all I have to say for now.
