#pendragon d.j. machale

[haveyoureadthisseries-poll]

1. The Merchant of Death

2. The Lost City of Faar

3. The Never War

4. The Reality Bug

5. Black Water

6. The Rivers of Zadaa

7. The Quillan Games

8. The Pilgrims of Rayne

9. Raven Rise

10. Soldiers of Halla

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[artificial-librarian]

That Nazi zeppelin has to explode to preserve the timeline: don’t save it. No, bad extra-dimensional travelers, bad! No! Sit, stay.

[roseunspindle]

Books I Want to Get to in 2023

[maximilff]

tagged by @laurabenanti to list my top 9 books

the song of achilles by madeline miller book of all time

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid (my current read!)

life or death by michael robotham

the harry potter series (prisoner of azkaban is my fav. fuck jkr but like god those books are good)

the hunger games trilogy by suzanne collins

they both die at the end + the first to die at the end by adam silvera (they can't be separated 🥺)

the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

the pendragon series by d.j. machale (nostalgic series from high school that i just finished. i think books 2 and 7 were my favs)

the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien

tagging @sophiedevreaux @stardreamt @evelyns @henwilsons @morozovamaximoff

[bettinalevyisdetermined]

Are there any mangas or books you could recomend cuz i finaly got through my "still need/want to read this" pile and idk what do read next

Ooh, empty to-read pile? Congrats!

I don't really read manga, I prefer watching anime. :P

Have you ever read the Pendragon series? That one's my favorite. I listened to all the audiobooks for the first time in like a decade, and it still held up for me. There's 10 books in it, so there's a lot of story to go through. Plus everything else that D.J. MacHale has written is really great, in my opinion. ^_^

[tandonshows]

Have you ever wanted to be whisked away to a magical world where you could make a difference?

This week, Harrison Prince, writer and host of the upcoming Ruff Boys podcast, joins to talk about the Young Adult Sci-Fi series, The Pendragon Adventure by D.J. MacHale.

We discuss how the books helped Harrison escape during a tumultuous time, the way the first book's format broke the rules of writing, and how the series helped Harrison to start to hone his own craft.Tangents include whether books have to be good to be worthwhile, controversial reader takes, and Matthew McConaughey.

Part 1 & 2 of this conversation are available now. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or find You Are What You Love on your favorite podcast app now!

[bi-luminescentdragon]

Some good book series I forgot (or almost forgot) about but really enjoyed and would like to share(possibly read again in the near future):

The Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Caine

Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan

Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale

Shadow Falls by C.C. Hunter (not my favorite but it appealed to my inner teen lol)

Life After series by Julie Hall

Dirty Blood series by Heather Hildenbrand

The Testing Trilogy by Joelle Charbonneau

The Tide series by Anthony J. Melchiorri

The Extinction Cycle by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

The Extinction Cycle: Dark Age series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Anthony J Melciorri

The Deadland Saga by Rachel Aukes

The Zulu Chronicles by Steven Konkoly

The Scattered and the Dead series by Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus

Slow Burn series by Bobby Adair

Vampires are in red and zombie or zombie like creatures are in purple :)

[pendragonthegreat]

DJM interview 05/21/2024 - some hypothetical tv show talk

skip to 53:26 for Pendragon stuff- the rest of this interview is mostly ayaotd related.

i've transcribed the relevant stuff below the cut if you can't listen, but in summary:

dj is still trying to get pendragon adapted and his exact words were "I just started a new effort with some new people." this is not even close to confirmation because pendragon has gotten almost adapted like this a few times so don't get too excited! but i really like hearing that he's still trying and he has something of a lead.

he wants it to be a tv series as opposed to a series of movies, with each book being a season, and he specifically put emphasis on expanding on stuff that's not in the books (the example he uses is character backstories)

he wants to age bobby up to around 16 or 17 at the beginning of the story

interviewer: If you had a chance to turn, like, SYLO Chronicles or Pendragon into a series, TV show or a series of films, would you want to?

DJ: Sure. In fact, I'm working to get Pendragon- I've been trying for years to get Pendragon on the screen in some way, shape, or form, uh, I just started a new effort with some new people, so... Who knows how it'll turn out. But the idea is to actually do a TV series.

[interviewer mentions Saint Dane and DJ says he wants Benedict Cumberbatch to play him. okay skipping forward a little bit]

DJ: How many times have you seen a movie based on a book that you really love, and even if it's good, and I'll put H arry P otter into this category, it's pretty good, but there's always that, "yeah, but they left so much out. Oh god, you're missing this, you're missing this." So you've gotta take this much and squeeze it into this much. The idea with a Pendragon is, I would love to be able to do a series where each book is a season... Now you're taking this much, and you've gotta blow it out even more. So you can get into the backstories of the different characters and do much more detail on it. So my dream would be, besides getting it done, is.. and that would be enough, frankly, the idea is that there's someone who never read the books but watched the series, and that sends them to say, "well, I'm gonna read Merchant of Death," the first book, and have them say, "yeah, the book was good but they left a lot out." [something hard to hear but i think he's saying he wants it to be the other way]

Interviewer: And you were smart enough that every book, the main character, Bobby Pendragon, grows a year with every book. So you know, he starts at 14, ends at 24 [monty note: this isn't true it's more like 1 year per two books and he's 18 by the end] and like grows and learns the course of- and you could do that as a show, rather than just having a kid be a perpetual kid.

other interviewer: And the audience that reads them grows with the character.

DJ: Well... except. I mean, that was the plan, I remember doing an interview when the Merchant of Death first came out and I said, my ideal here is to have 14-year-olds pick up this book and grow up with Bobby Pendragon as each year comes out. And I remember just going, good luck with that. That'll never work.

[everyone laughs]

DJ: and it did! It did work! But TV's a little different. Or I should say, screen is a little bit different. So for the scripts I've been writing for Pendragon, I've actually aged him up to begin with, to 16 or 17. To start with. Because, the thing is, one of the things about, I mean you guys haven't read all the Pendragon books, but he starts at 14, and as much as he's very capable and he's smart, and he's all that kind of stuff, he's almost a passenger for the first couple books. Um, and a lot of other people are doing his fighting for him. And this is a little kid, but he still does plenty of stuff, but it's way easier to accept a 14-year-old doing plenty of stuff when you're just reading about it, than to actually depict it on screen. So it's like, I think he's gotta be a little bit older to begin with, right off the bat.

And because... wouldn't it be great to make ten seasons of TV series, let's be real, [something like it's not gonna happen]. I can't wait till season 6 for him to start kicking ass.

And, just being a film producer that I am, the fact that H arry P otter pulled that off, pretty remarkable. And I think it was as much because those books are just a phenomenon that Warner Brothers stayed with it and stayed with it as the kids aged and whatnot. Lightning's not gonna strike twice. So you don't wanna be casting little kids that you have to deal with them growing up. I'd rather cast a 20-year-old as a 16-year-old, which is the norm.

[rarely-conscious]

Reading anything right now? Do you enjoy reading? What genres?

I am veeeery slowly making my way back through the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale. Like basically everything I read it’s sci-fi/fantasy coz that’s just the kind of media I generally like to consume :)

[gettingfrilly]

You’ve answered most of them already but E (young wild and ed), H, L, R. Thanks!

Hi hello ty :)

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

edd getting high a not panic inducing amount and bumpin ugglies with eddy

H: How would you describe your style?

RUSHED lol. gotta get to the juicy bits. im def more action and dialogue oriented, too impatient for lots of exposition or more flowery prose. i also try really hard to show, not tell, à la the robot devil's advice.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

not enough! like i said before, i'm very impatient lol. need to get the content out so i can get the dopamine hits from engagement. i do make sure to slowly read my fic out loud to myself at least once, tho. and i usually go back and read bits to myself frequently while writing. i'm not a first draft kind of person, it's all one draft that i'm continuously rereading and editing while writing.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

D.J. MacHale (specifically his Pendragon series) and, for better or worse, James Patterson ( specifically how he writes Maximum Ride.) I devoured those books when I was a kid so they definitely inform how I write today. also, loath i am to admit it, there's probably some jk rowling in my writing too, considering how many times i read and reread the harry potter books as a kid. now that i think about it, all my favorite book series as a kid were about teenagers fighting against fascism.

as for fanfic authors, silentwalrus on ao3 is a huge inspiration and someone i aspire to write like.

also i really can't not mention Takumi Miyajima when talking about writing. Tales of Symphonia is my favorite game of all time, and when dabbling with ideas for original fiction, ToS's plot and story themes are a HUGE inspiration.

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

Book 1 only for all of these.

Humans are weird, I have the data by Betty Adams

Clean Sweep by Illona Andrews . This is a complicated one genre wise, because there are vampires and werewolves and witches, but they're from alien planets, werewolves are the result of genetic modification, vampires have advanced tech, etc. So fantasy would make sense too?

Cluster by Piers Anthony

Proxima by stephen baxter

Prime Suspects: A Clone Detective Mystery by Jim Bernheimer

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Nova Express William Burroughs,

Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer

Reset by Sarina Dahlan

Omnitopia dawn by Diane Duane

The Dreaming Void by peter Hamilton

Valor's Choice (Huff, Tanya)

Eye to Eye (Jinks, Catherine)

Revan (Karpyshyn, Drew)

Babel (Kuang, R.F.)

The Wandering Earth (Liu, Cixin)

The Merchant of Death (MacHale, D.J.)

Maybe Next Time (Major, Cesca)

The Host (Meyer, Stephenie)

Cloud Atlas (Mitchell, David)

Wild Massive (Moore, Scotto)

Nyxia (Reintgen, Scott )

Revelation Space (Reynolds, Alastair)

Robots vs. Fairies (Parisien, Dominik)

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Taylor, Dennis E.)

Spin (Wilson, Robert Charles)

Artifice (Woolfson, Alex)

Androne (Worrell, Dwain)

hello! many of these are queued.

the following are in formats or genres that I’m not currently accepting for this blog:

Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of (very good) non-linked short fiction.

R.F. Kuang’s Babel is fantasy.

Robots vs. Fairies (ed. Parisien and Wolfe) is a collection of non-linked short fiction.

Alex Woolfson’s Artifice is a graphic novel.

and I had questions about the following:

Olivia Blake’s The Atlas Six appears to be fantasy — is there something in later books that would make it science fiction?

William S. Burroughs, Nova Express — you said book 1 only, but Nova Express is book 2 of The Nova Trilogy. did you want Nova Express specifically or did you want book 1, The Soft Machine?

Liu Cixin, The Wandering Earth — this appears to be the title of a short fiction collection containing the title story. has the story itself been published in standalone format (outside of a magazine/similar)? if so, could you or someone else point me towards it?

D.J. MacHale, The Merchant of Death — while parallel worlds are integral to the Pendragon books, my impression is that the handling of them (and of travel between them) is primarily fantastic rather than scientific/science-fictional. could you, or someone else, clarify the extent of the science fiction aspects of the series?

[stardustravens]

Bobby Pendragon is what everyone wanted Percy Jackson to become.

[incorrect-pendragon-quotes]

Saint Dane: Remember, learning is always a great reason for criminal things.

Naymeer: I wonder what a dado rod would do to a marshmallow

(Five minutes later)

Saint Dane and Naymeer, with marshmallows in their hair: It explodes.

[midnightziege]

As someone who was raised on underappreciated book series I worship @incorrect-pendragon-quotes

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[george-rr-binks]

Hey cool Disney is making an Eragon series that’s really great seriously I’m happy for it now can someone please if it’s not too much trouble could you FUCKING do Pendragon next?