07-06-2011, 10:51 AM | #16 |
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Depends.
Favourite books w/ dragons: Tea With the Black Dragon --- R.A. MacAvoy --- very cool, esp. for its handling of the early days of microcomputers and very cool mention of Dr. Donald Knuth's _The Art of Computer Programming_ _Stormbringer_, et. al. --- Michael Moorcock --- interesting that the dragons are limited by sleep, and the interplay and relationship of the protagonist w/ them is well handled _Earthsea Trilogy_ --- Ursula K. LeGuin --- amazing handling of dragons and magic and how intertwined the twain are. |
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07-06-2011, 11:17 AM | #18 |
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My wife loves dragons. Paints 25mm miniatures of them as well
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07-06-2011, 11:50 AM | #19 |
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I like dragons. Even have some dragon statues. BUT some stories with dragons would be better left unwritten.
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07-06-2011, 12:24 PM | #20 |
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If it's well written, the plot sounds interesting, as are the characters, and it's not horrendously exciting, you could write about goldfish and I might take a punt..........
And as long as it doesn't have vampires, zombies, or promises to change my life.... |
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07-06-2011, 12:27 PM | #21 |
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Only some. Stop hating on the dragons, lol.
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07-06-2011, 12:36 PM | #22 |
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Yes to dragons!
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07-06-2011, 01:30 PM | #23 |
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I love dragons!!!
Mrs Joseph I second your thumbs up for Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison! I just read that and it was SO amazing! Can't wait for book 2 in August! I am also, this year, re-reading Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. I read them all a long time ago. |
07-06-2011, 02:09 PM | #24 |
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LOVE the Pern books. i had the fortunate mistake of reading The White Dragon first ... easily the best book of the entire series. I have read them all at least once, most of them twice (pretty much everything before Renegades). planning on re-reading the series later this year.
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07-06-2011, 02:14 PM | #25 |
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Hmm... sounds to me like there may be a bunch of Georges in the audience.
The dragons of PERN made for what I feel may be the best example of a successful bridging of Fantasy and Science Fiction - ever. I admit that it can be over done, as for instance there being altogether too many sequels to "The Dragon and The George". I do think, though that the dragon must be something more than a flying mount for the hero of the story. Dragons do imply a measure of magic and an ancient wisdom. So I have no objection to them being a pivotal character and their speaking. (A slightly British accent may be a requirement, as well.) The part that dragons played in the "Halfblood Chronicles" might be a good example, of a way to integrate dragonkind and humankind. (Don't let the title fool you) Luck; Ken |
07-06-2011, 02:17 PM | #26 |
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LOVE Norton's Half-blood Chronicles! You just reminded me to pick them up.
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07-06-2011, 02:21 PM | #27 |
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I loved Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles and it had dragons...
But, yeah, generally I tend to assign a token demerit in my head to a book if it has dragons in it. It's something that can DEFINITELY work and be done well, but it's also something that can be mishandled badly. |
07-06-2011, 02:28 PM | #28 |
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Dragons are cool. Elves, fairies and goblins too for that matter. In fact what we need are vampire-eating dragons.
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07-06-2011, 02:35 PM | #29 |
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Make that "Dragons that eat Romantic Urban Vampires"!
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07-06-2011, 04:17 PM | #30 |
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Dragon neutral here. Don't get me started on sparkly vampires though...
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