"Trevor Goodchild" on gab was mentioning that dragonlance holds up pretty well as a fun read. As teenager my friends and I just loved it. And I think the archetypes of Tanis, Raistlin etc were quite well drawn.
Has anybody read it lately?
Also: Same question, but with the "dragonriders of Pern"
Yes. They’re fun and the characters are, for the most part, likeable and memorable. The original trilogy, and the Ralstan and Cameron books are extremely fun reads. Its funny because the archetypes and trope characters of yesteryear have been gone so long thanks to deconstruction and subversion, that a knight in shining armor like Sturm Brightblade is incredibly refreshing.
I’ve stopped reading any fantasy, horror, or SciFi published after 2012 and it’s caused reading to become my go to hobby again. Stuff like Dragonlance, Dragon Riders of Pern, Book of Swords, Book of the New Sun, Heroes Die, and the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons absolutely destroy anything published in the last decade. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.