Article about Dragonlance on the AV Club
I never read them, but some people clearly love them. Reading the comments on this article, it's clear that the opposite is also true.
I can certainly respect looking fondly upon the absolute crap that we liked as children. A large portion of the Internet seems to founded on this premise, after all.
Dig that Larry Elmore art, though.
The first Dragonlance novels gave Dungeons & Dragons a new dimension