Customer Reviews

Heroes and Fools (Dragonlance Tales of the Fifth Age, Vol. 2)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
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I really enjoyed this book. Most of the stories were good, but some were horribly average. My favorite was "Gone". The suspence was terrific and I loved every moment exept for the sudden end. Overall it was a very good book envolving mainly kender and knights. It was well worth the price.

Well I almost wanted to get my money back after reading the first few stories, they were not well written nor were they consistent with "the world of krynn". It seemed like they took place on another world...these newer lance authors shouldnt have such freedom to go and create races or things, the story "Boojum Boojum" illustrates my point quite well. Other than the above; the stories by the "real" lance authors made up for the beginning. Get it only if you want hear more about the 5th Age...

If you pick this up, do not just judge the breadth of the novel by the first story or two. "Boojum, Boojum," the first short story, is pretty horribly written. But most of the rest of the stories are excellent, especially "Much Ado About Magic" and "To Convince the Righteous of the Right." If you are interested in the wheelings and dealings of the DragonLance fifth age, without becoming too bogged down by the main storylines, than this would be a perfect book for you.

This book unlike some other of the books of tales varies widely in it's selections. Some stories (Gone) are written differently and also don't have the basic ending. Others (To convince the righteous of the right) have a classic appeal to them. A third aspect of the dragonlance series that is in this book, humor, abounds and the gnomes and other races in Heroes and fools make themselves known. I believe this book to be one of the best tales books and I highly recommend it

I thought Heroes and Fools was a good collection of stories about the Fifth Age, I enjoyed Boojum,Boojum,Tree of Life,Songsayer,Nobless,Oblige,The Thief in the Mirror and since I have one story left I'm looking forwared to reading To Convince the Righteous of the Right the story of Kang and his band of Draconians. I've allways enjoyed the short stories about Kang. The only story I have not enjoyed is Gone by Roger E. Moore, Manly because the story is witten in Diary form and I hate that. If you enjoy reading the Dragonlance books and like short stories than this book is for you.

A good read, id recommend to any dragonlance fan, some stories drag on a little but for the most part are in the 4-4.5 star range!

I got this book solely for the short story about Kang and his troops (To Convince the Righteousness of the Right). For that reason alone, this anthology was worth the price. I read that short (the last in the book) first and then went back to start from the beginning. Honestly, if Kang's story had not been so good, I would have thought this a complete wash. The first stories in this book were abysmal, and the middle ones mediocre. But just when I was thoroughly discouraged, I reached Reorx Steps Out. This story, along with Gone, are definitely high caliber. I rated this 3 stars because most of the stories are sub-par, but if you are willing to pay for just a few high quality shorts, you will not be disappointed in them.

So far (i've only read a few stories) "To convince the righteous of the right" and "much ado about magic" were the best. I have yet to finish it...but it's nott as good as war of the lance was so far or any of the other anthologies ive read.

This book was decent. Many stories were quite good, but others, as was mentioned before, were found extremely lacking, like "Boojum Boojum". It was hideous. Otherwise, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

This book has some of the best stories in the Fifth age, including a very strange one about shadow wights . It also has a nice bunch of stories on creatures of the Fifth age. It does have some pitfalls but it makes that up by keeping up the chaotic feel that the Fifth age is supposed to have. In brief its a exellent book.