Absolutely amazing | SOUL FORGE, THE (Dragonlance Saga)

Fizban's Book Review | SOUL FORGE, THE (Dragonlance Saga) | Margaret Weis

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	• SOUL FORGE, THE (Dragonlance Saga) Margaret Weis Wizards of the Coast, 1998 - 347 pages average customer review:based on 221 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Soulforge - The Best Book in Dragonlance and one of the most memorable I've ever read. Still number One...

Probably (well, for certain), the best book that I have ever read. I've read it more than 6 times and still I hunger for more. The story it's great and it develops fast. The main character Raistlin Majere, it's probably the best character ever invented in any fiction books. There are more than 16 books with him. I have read other books about him, and I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to know more. Some particularities that the main books didn't explain.
Well let me explain better...
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote three books which were in Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning. There were many characters but the one that marked me and a legion of fans was a mage. An evil, selfish, mean, overly-ambitious human. So why would I like him?
Well for this and much more. We as read the books didn't knew why raistlin was that way, why did he hate his brother, why did he had an hourglass eyes and his hair totally white. We need to know more. And so Margaret Weis wrote Soul forge and Brother in arms (the second) that answer many questions...

The story it's about him growing up. The meeting with the wizard which will put him in wizards school. The teaching and learning of Raistlin. The family and the company first quest. The Test and the rewards (Well kind of).

In the end why do I and other people love Raistlin? That is an Hard Question :
Raistlin acts as a mirror. More than the images of his co-stars are reflected in those hourglass eyes. When we read about Raistlin, it's as if we're following the adventures of our own dark sides. In Raistlin, we see a little bit of ourselves. Maybe we didn't have tortured childhoods; certainly all of us don't share his personality traits. But still, in his struggles to be, ultimately, accepted, perhaps we find our own longings for love; in his bittersweet triumph, we find ourselves confronted with our own wishes for the power we may never find. Justarius summed this up best when he said, "We've all been laughed at one time in our lives. We've all been jealous of someone. We have felt pain and suffered, just as he has suffered. And we've all longed - just once - for the power to crush our enemies. We pity him. We hate him. We fear him - all because there is a little of him in each of us, though we admit it to ourselves only in the darkest part of the night."

But the reason I, personally love him is 'cause like him I have ashma as sick as him.. I've spent so many hours in doctors, and received air that I can't remember. When I was 19/20 I was in an hospital more than twelve times, each one one week. So, yes I know how he feels... I know how he is that way.. That's why I love him.
The best phrase that I summarized him and me is "Hope is the denial of Reality"!

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Absolutely amazing

If any fantasy novel deserves 5 stars it is this. I had never heard of Raistlin or Dragonlance before I read this, and it got me completely hooked.
This is up there with LoTR, although obviously much shorter

Fizban's Book Review

In the book The Soul forge, by Margret Weis, Raistlin Majere has battled through every bit of his life. He barely made it through birth and is a sickly child. His twin brother Caramon, is the better liked, while Raistlin stays a home. Raistlin wants to do and become something great in life. He has been always interested in magic. One day an arch magus stops in the small town of Solace. He talks to Raistlin and sees that the young boy at the age of six has great potential. The book follows the life of Raistlin with his struggles and triumphs.
I think that this book is awesome. It is the best book I have read and I will recommend it to whoever loves fantasy and who is searching for a great read. I would rate this a 10/10.

Mrs. Sage's Class

By Jordan

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Love it

Story of Majere brothers. I loved it. Margaret Weis is truly a good writer.

Wrapped In An Air Of Mystery

Raistlin Majere has always been my favorite Dragonlance character but this story of his early years was severely lacking. Wrapped in an air of mystery and hacking away with a deadly consumption, this young mage was protected both by his powerful brother and by his cloak of mystery. His ambition, curiosity and sleight of hand earns your interest like no other but he needed a more developed background to fill that vaccuum. I will still love the red robed mage but I might have to accept that his run as a great character ended in a Summer Flame.

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A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic. Raistlin Majere is six years old when he is introduced to the archmage who enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted and talented but tormented boy comes to see magic as his salvation. Mages in the magical Tower of High Sorcery watch him in secret, for they see shadows darkening over Raistlin even as the same shadows lengthen over all Ansalon.

Finally, Raistlin draws near his goal of becoming a wizard. But first he must take the drea Test in the Tower of High Sorcery. It will change his life forever -- if he survives.

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