Customer Reviews

Dragonhenge

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I was blown away upon finally viewing and reading my copy of Dragonhenge. I had seen slides of some of the art, along with portions of the text as it was in final creative stages. But now, all together at last, it is a seemless and timeless masterpiece. Bob's glowing and stunning images flow beautifully within and around John's mesmerizing text, creating a visual and verbal feast for the imagination. This lovely book whispers the reality of the wisdom of the ancients, the dragon-like mythological beings who existed before the beginning of time itself. You must get a copy of this book.... no get several copies to share with everyone. It will become a classic!! Jael

This is an extraordinary book; a book that takes a concept and builds legends around it. In reading it, you feel as though you have stumbled on a long-lost trove of lore from a vanished race.

The book is presented as a series of legends about a race of dragons, from their "how we came to be" origins tale through mythic explainations of where their powers came from and how their society developed. Eggleton's illustrations are beautiful, running from very tightly-sculpted depictions to much looser work that evokes a sense of time and space while presenting only form and color for the eyes.

This is a book that is sure to end up on all the dragon lovers' "wish list."

Dragonhenge is a mesmerizing collaboration between Author John Grant and Artist Bob Eggleton. Both of these creators are well known for their many other ventures. John Grant/aka Paul Barnett, is a Chesley award winning art director, Editor, as well as being a brilliant and prolific Author. John Grant also wrote the lovely text for my book _Perceptualistics_. Then there's our Bob who's earned so many Hugo and Chesley Awards with his astonishing art through these many years.

Dragonhenge, however, is something starkly unique, a seamless blending of text and art, softly framing lyrical mythological tales, passed down for thousands of years by ' the master story tellers', "Dragons".... many of them having been created well before time itself. You must pick up a book. Be sure to read it under soft lights, where multi-layered shadows will reflect the glowing imagery, and where the words will leap off the page and enter your soul. It's a wonderful wonderful book. Jael

The dragon myth is one of mankind's most ancient and enduring stories. Perhaps our ancestors stumbled upon the fossilised bones of large dinosaurs and that's how it all began. This wonderful book by illustrator Bob Eggleton and author John Grant explores the myth in a Tolkienesque style and is very engaging for that. The illustrations are original and impressive while the text reveals old and new slants on the dragon myth in an old worldly language, not unlike that of The Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion. Like those classics, this narrative has a psychological side giving us insight into our own thoughts and actions. Dragonhenge is a most inspiring book and would be the ideal gift for children or for adults who can still dream.

I like Dragons so I took a chance on this one. I rated it a 3 because the story is good, easy to read, however I think that for the price and size the illistrations could have been more in depth and more colored ones. Black and white sketches really aren't what most people expect to find in a book like this and most of the colored ones are rather modernized and to me uninteresting instead of actual dragons doing things that go with the story.

Having a serious penchant for most things Dragon -- and not-so-serious friends who know this about me -- I was given "Dragonhenge" several years ago, yet only got around to reading it recently. I discovered an unexpected treat.
Bob Eggleton's work is inspired throughout. His melange of styles and media only accentuate the universality of Dragons.
My qualms, if qualms they be, lie with the story-telling. I take no exception to the spiritual aspects of the tale, far from it. If any being deserves a claim to cosmogony and spirituality, it is the Dragon. And the grand arc taken by John Grant's story is wonderful. But I felt he would have been well served with a pouch full of commas and a sharp editor. Too often the clear line of his narrative got lost in, what felt to me, an affected rambling. I'm not sure whether he intended this to seem more mystical -- more the tone of an imagine Ancient imparting wisdom on us mere mortals -- or just didn't hear it, I am not sure. But when the artifice of mythmaking distracts from the myth itself, the whole suffers.
Which is a shame, because the heart of "Dragonhenge" is wonderful. The Greater and the Lesser, the Evil of the Ice Dragons, and at its core, the essense of myth, the hero's great quest. Good stuff. I only wished it had been told with a slightly clearer voice.

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