6/26/2023 0 Comments The dragon waiting john ford![]() ![]() ![]() Usually in an audio recording this is signaled with an extra long pause. In the book this is signaled with extra space between paragraphs. A note on the recording: The chapters are long and have internal section breaks where the scene changes. ![]() A grounded fantasy novel with a fascinating perspective on magic, religion, and how friendships and trust affect history. ![]() That lead to a deep dive into Plantagenet history (thanks Dan Jones) that gave me enough background to wade into The Dragon Waiting again. It's the Bloomsday Book of The Dragon Waiting. I discovered the Draco Concordans webpage created by Andrew Plotkin that annotates the entire book, explaining references and characters. As I dug into the background of the book, I was intrigued by the behind-the-scenes story that led to the republication of The Drago Waiting published by Isaac Butler in Slate. You can pick this up with little background and try to keep up. The forward compares the result to a magic trick. The world is built and the reader acts as a historical detective, picking up on nuance and implication to understand what the hell is going on. This is not the first volume of a fantasy novel that eases the reader into the worldbuilding. The author tinkers with European history, spinning out what-ifs and personalities that is a wonder to behold or an impossible mass of text. This is a sweeping story that somehow, impossibly, fits into a single volume that runs only 14 hours. ![]()
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