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Title: The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame)
ISBN: 0451453506
Author:
Joel Rosenberg
Publicate Date: 1993-06-01
Publish: 1993-06-01
List Price: $4.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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Amazon Lowest Used Price: $8.69
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1: Even if Only to Read the Others
This is the first book in a series. I gave it a five, even though it might have only been worth a three by itself, for the following reason:
The series gets much better. If you read this and you like it enough to get the rest as you go along, you will be highly rewarded. The next few are quite good three-star and low four-star novels. Not bad at all. Then you get to _The Road to Evehnor_ and _The Road Home_ These are five-star books. Then you get to read some more very good books. Quite a reward, considering the first few are really worth reading as well, even if not as good.
Rosenberg handles the central conceit in this book, gamers being moved to their gaming world, quite well. The characters, especially Walter and Andy, are excellent. The "game world" is not generic fantasy fluff.
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2: Not Free SF Reader
A group of college fantasy role playing gamers end up being transported to their own fantasy gaming world. The group includes both men and women, and we see them have to get over the shock of this translation, and start to adapt to new roles in the game world that they are used to playing with dice and paper in the real world. Pretty lightweight fun.
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3: A Gamer's Delight
This is a must read for any fantasy fan. Honestly, its a must read for anyone getting into RPG's or fantasy lit. A great idea for a novel. Also the characters are realisticly portrayed as confused at first, then believers in the world in which they have been thrust. I have some complaints about the overall conclusion of this series, but this book is fantastic.
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4: Fantastic
This is the book that got me back into reading. It is a wonderful tale of a group of college role-players who are transported into the world and bodies of the very game they were playing. The story has many twists and unexpected surprises. I would recommend the entire trilogy. The stories that appear later on in the series are hit or miss for me, but the original three are the best.
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5: Not as impressed as others
I read the book several years ago and found it silly, fairly unengaging, and filled with poor dialog.
One other problem, and this is only partially the author's fault, is that the material is fairly clich?? riddled.
Granted, the book is fairly old and predates a lot of other DM transports characters into the game, but the idea wasn't really new then either.
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