[Thekherham]

Are there too many dragon books out there?
It seems like everybody and everything is writing books with dragons in them... good dragons, bad dragons, dragons as main characters, dragons as minor characters.

I like reading books with dragons in them, but sometimes I wonder...

[Khallandra]

Yeah there are quite a few but then again there are lots of books with Elves in them too. Actually I haven't reada dragon book in a while... wait yes I have Storm of Swords has dragons in it.
You know something you might be onto something...

[loki_incarnate]

:o thats cos everyone loves dragons, dragons are the coolest. heresay i say :P. anyway, there are quite a few but usually when i have nothing to read i go into a book shop and buy something about dragons, thats my criteria. gotta luv em and theres the market for them. when people get sick and tired of them there will be a new phase.

[Hobbit]

Good point. Dragons are one of these archetypes that people love or loathe. I like, personally - nice ones, nasty ones, wise ones....

Let's widen the brief a little and say which dragon books do people think are good and which ones would you avoid?

Like all these things, there are some books that are 'dragons by numbers' and some that we really like.

I quite like Anne McCaffrey's Pern books - the earlier ones anyway!

Big 'thumbs up' for Robin Hobb's Liveship books too.

James Barclay's Raven books has them.

And I think the sarcastic one in James Stoddard's High House (who lives in the attic) is great.

Any more?

Hobbit

[Simon F]

I always thought the Dragon in the Deathgate cycle was cool but did read that years ago. Also although they didn't have a personality as such the idea of using Dragons as basically planes in Harry TurtleDoves Darkness Decsends was different.

[snowmaiden]

Yeah there are quite a few but then again there are lots of books with Elves in them too.


What books have elves in them?

[cvazi]

every urban fantasy book out there.

[Tomsk]

I am currently reading "The Elvenbane" by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey, and its OK, despite having rubbish character names and an even worse front cover, but it is the first book I have read with elves and dragons bar Tolkien's stuff, and its really wierd, because Tolkiens elves and dragons seem so right, but in "The Elvenbane", they are the opposite, which seems wrong to me.

I think the reason dragons are so cool is because they can be really scary, with the fire and the terror and the evilness, (except The Elvenbane!) and they can seem so real, and are they rule!

[Leiali]

I have to say I am not all that keen as their presence seems to detract from the main plot in a lot of the books I have read. I like people and their issues. And dragons can sometimes be so alien that they require a totally different mind set.

[snowmaiden]

Originally posted by Tomsk
I am currently reading "The Elvenbane" by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey, and its OK, despite having rubbish character names and an even worse front cover, but it is the first book I have read with elves and dragons bar Tolkien's stuff, and its really wierd, because Tolkiens elves and dragons seem so right, but in "The Elvenbane", they are the opposite, which seems wrong to me.

I think the reason dragons are so cool is because they can be really scary, with the fire and the terror and the evilness, (except The Elvenbane!) and they can seem so real, and are they rule!

I like Elvenbane because the elves are not nice. I was reading Evermeet. I was disappointed.