FINALLY!!!

[un4]

I've read the Chronicles maybe... 12 times since I discovered them, and I maintain that they are the best Dragonlance series I've read.

[dharq]

I still get all misty reading the history books. Dragons. Elves. Dwarves. Oh my! 

[Drygioni]

HAHA as soon as I stumbled upon the webpage about the film (while researching for a Dragonlance themed chest tattoo) I went to Amazon.ca and ordered the hardcover spec edition of the Chronicles. Which I will dive into once it arrives. I really loved the 4th book too "Dragons of Summer Flame" It was nice re-visiting the companions I think 10 some years after last reading the books.

[un4]

The 5th Age stuff was a total dissapointment to me.  It murdered what made Dragonlance unique and amazing and replaced it with... bleh. 

[Drygioni]

Yeah i stopped after The "Heroes" books I think. Whatever the 3rd series was called. the one with Caramons son's "The Magic of Krynn". And I read "Kendermore" that was "Preludes" iirc.

[Vengeance]

I still think all of them are good...at least by Weis and Hicksman...the minotaur series made me drowsy after 2 minutes, but Conundrum was a good and funny one 

[dharq]

Agree with Un4. I didn't totally hate the 5th age stuff, but I don't think it's nearly as good as the original books. It seemed a bit too much like the FR books when the gods were cast down and made mortal.

[Vengeance]

FR?

[Darkling]

Forgotten Realms

[Vengeance]

Never read that 

[Darkling]

sacrilige

[Drygioni]

BTW

I just got

THIS

in the mail and its really cool. It has footnotes in margin by Hickman & Weiss. Little stories behind the characters and development of the story.

[Arcdelad]

I know of a lit professor that got fired from his college becuase he wrote intros and stuff for some sci-fi work...professors should be careful when writing intros or literary reviews

[fiere redfern]

honorable mention: The Twelth Warrior....have no talent?

/nitpick
It's Thirteenth Warrior =P but yes I agree that the movie was shoddily done.
/end picking of nits

Heh, I got into SO many different sci-fi/fantasy novels when I was young, most of them have yet to be touched by the movie industry, but if they were to be, there are a couple I'd love to see made/interpreted:

Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) - AMAZING series, unfortunately for me I could only read it once, since his character progression drags on like nobody's business and it takes forever to get any one character to do anything. That inandof itself would be fine, but I have a very keen memory for plot lines, and find myself spending more time thinking "jeez, I can't wait until..." than actually reading the books. I think when I left, Perrin was sorta/not really coming to terms with his abilities - and his wife had just gotten stolen. >.<

RA Salvatore's early Drizzt saga - I am also an admitted Drizzt Do'Urden fan. I devoured the first dozen or so books of his - only really stopped reading them when I ran out of his old ones and couldn't just go to the library and borrow them again.

Anita Black, Vampire Hunter (Laurell K. Hamilton) - Think on the level of Anne Rice. Incredible author, well designed plots (when they aren't reduced to multiple-spooky-critter orgies, as in the later books), and just a fun and sarcastic main female lead. I've heard there are either talks in the works for a movie deal, but the only thing I've been able to confirm is a comic-book version that's being produced.

Redwall (Brian Jacques) - One for the kids ^_^ I loved his books as a child, though whether it's just me growing up or him changing his writing style, his later books haven't held the same appeal. Less of the blood and gore (which for a young person's novel was surprisingly plentiful, though tastefully rendered) and more of the "When I was a Dibbun, we went on XXXX adventure". I'd pay good money to go see the original Redwall plotline done as an animated movie - I saw part of one that had been made as a segment in a larger tv show and was not impressed with it.

I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting.

One other note: I love when directors take a good book and create a movie that interprets the novel in a different way (The Bourne Series most notably). The majority of the Harry Potter movies have been disappointing, not because of the graphics, but because they are trying FAR too hard to please FAR too many people. The latest one felt rushed - like the actors couldn't even breathe wrong, else they'd slow down the plot (and this in a three-hour long movie). Books are simply too richly created (the good ones, anyway) and open to interpretation for a movie to follow to a tee. It's depressing when an amount of money such as the amount that's been poured down the throat of the HP movies goes to waste, simply because they're trying so hard to keep a fanbase of billions excited.