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Anyone Here Likes Dragons? ( the kind with wings! )

Pal-O-Mine

Pal-O-Mine

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I just came back from Marscon ( a comic book convention ) in Williamsburg Va. Great con btw! Awesome con suite with plenty of food all the time and great panels to sit in on. I came home with a children's fantasy book called "Between a Roc and a Hard Place". The author Danny Birt was there and he was very nice to talk to. Its a great book and has won several young reader awards. If you like dragons and birds of prey then GET THIS BOOK! Its that good! Forget that its a children's book.

Okay. I'm done with my shameless plug. I'll go back to hiding under my rock, the one without feathers that ends in a K. ( The D&D players will get it! ):)

Devon
 
Hard not to like dragons if ya like snakes :)

Griffons are cheaper to feed than rocs ya know ;)
 
Dragons. <3


I've found it's IMPOSSIBLE to find a decent dragon book though. The best I've found is the Eragon series.
 
I looove dragons but as Shenzi said its hard to find a good book. I am going to have to check that one out!
 
Temeraire from Naomi Novik is nice too. Totally different though. Not really fantasy even...
 
ShenziSixaxis said:
Dragons. <3


I've found it's IMPOSSIBLE to find a decent dragon book though. The best I've found is the Eragon series.
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If you want to read a good series with dragons, read The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. The Pern novels have been some of my favorites for decades.
 
Yeah...I like some of the ideas in the pern series. But the writing is very old school 70s. Women had little rights and most of the dragons are pretty stupid. It's also very tecnical which bores me. When I want to escape into fantasy...i want to really escape!
I will have to check those out. Sometimes tween books these days seem better than the fantasy. I feel like i have read everything on the shelves lately.
 
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Yeah...I like some of the ideas in the pern series. But the writing is very old school 70s. Women had little rights and most of the dragons are pretty stupid. It's also very tecnical which bores me. When I want to escape into fantasy...i want to really escape!
I will have to check those out. Sometimes tween books these days seem better than the fantasy. I feel like i have read everything on the shelves lately.
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There are over a dozen books in the series, I believe. They were written over a period of more than 3 decades and the story spans 1500 years on pern, so womens rights, technical aspects, and opinions and morals change a lot depending on what period of time on Pern the book takes place in. As to the writing, I never noticed, but I guess it's possible that I'm old school '70's, too.
 
You can try Melanie Rawn's "Dragon Prince" series or Mercedes Lackey "Dragon Jouster" series. The first is more magic and politics, no dragon-riding. The second I believe is more like Eragon, although I've only read part of the first Eragon.

I was born in '67, so "old school" authors like Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley were contemporary writers for me. (This was also back when vampires and werewolves were scary)
 
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