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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8275284" data-attributes="member: 6780330">I mean, I haven't read the books since the 90's, and my recollection was that they were decidedly mediocre (the late 90's fantast genre scene had evolved considerably since 1984). Your criticism is very valid, my wife read them a couple years ago, and as a late 20's Millenial she found plenty to criticize very close to what you have articulated, but she enjoyed them and decided to stock them on our shelf for the kids (the four that WotC keeps in print and pretends is the whole series on Amazon now). Vanilla can be a very popular flavor.The new books will be the proving ground, I wager: if they knock it out of the park, WotC will likely want to capitalize on that in the next couple years.I wouldn't read too much into the judgement of the guy at WotC who tried to kill the novels and subsequently lost his job (replaced by Sdsm Lee recently): he was directly responsible for the War of the Dpark debacle, which yikes,  talk about problematic...</blockquote>