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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhamin" data-source="post: 3578734" data-attributes="member: 1023">I have to give a dissenting opinion.I read them when I was 11 and thought they were the greatest, deepest, most evocative things I had ever read.  I re-read them when I was 20 and was aghast at how wooden they were.Most of the major plot points are out and out stolen from the Lord of the Rings (I know that is pretty commont with fantasy, but Dragonlance is pretty egregious) and the authors handling of the characters is very uneven.  A few are really origional, but most are cliches or stock race/class combos with nothing else to distinguish hem.I think they work best when your reading level is too low to really appreciate the Lord of the Rings and you won't spot how much of it is stolen from other places.  After you can spot how much of a pastache it is, the series doesn't have nearly the luster.I'd personally reccomend the first three books from the Wizard of Earthsea series (which bear little resemblence to the sci-fi channel movie).  If you like them, stop after the third book, which was written 20 years later and with a very different political agenda.</blockquote>