The Dragonbone Chair
Novel by Tad WilliamsWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
Kevin LieberHOST
His, uh, Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series I've, I'm reading.
Kevin LieberHOST
Um, recently, they recently created a gorgeous new edition for The Dragonbone Chair.
Matthew TaborHOST
Oh, cool.
Kevin LieberHOST
It literally just came out, like, last week, I think.
Matthew TaborHOST
You know, uh, being able to, to satisfy that niche of super fans of an author or a book, uh, or a genre like Forgotten Weapons, that's awesome, and that's really healthy.
Matthew TaborHOST
I'm, I'm pleased that all of that stuff is healthy.
Matthew TaborHOST
But if you read a book called The Dragonbone Chair and you think, "This is awesome.
Matthew TaborHOST
I wanna read 10 more by the same guy," you just want a pile of mass market paperbacks, you know? If, if you read a Lee Child Jack Reacher book, w- people like him are...
speaker_2HOST
Enter Tad Williams.
speaker_2HOST
Castle highlights his 1988 book, The Dragonbone Chair
speaker_1HOST
The first of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series
speaker_2HOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
He is completely insignificant when the story starts
speaker_2HOST
But I wanna push back on this a little, thinking about you, the listener, and your modern reading habits.
speaker_2HOST
I look at the sheer density of The Dragonbone Chair
speaker_1HOST
It's a hefty book
speaker_4HOST
Consider Williams' protagonist, Simon.
speaker_3HOST
The parallels here are impossible to ignore because Simon in the Dragonbone Chair is this lowly kitchen boy, a total nobody, who gets swept up in a magical and political war for the throne.
speaker_3HOST
He is driven out of his home, forced to survive in this incredibly harsh, freezing, icy environment, and through a crucible of suffering, slowly forges himself into a leader of men.
speaker_4HOST
It is the direct prototype for Jon Snow.
Jeremiah Dylan CookGUEST
Uh, but Tad Williams is an amazing writer.
Jeremiah Dylan CookGUEST
Um, uh, Memory Sorrow Thorn is amazing, and, um, yeah, like there's like, the first book is called The Dragonbone Chair, which is, it's a throne made out of dragon bones.
Jeremiah Dylan CookGUEST
And then you can see how George R. Martin read that and was like, "I'm gonna make an iron throne that's made by a dra-", but there's a milli- like if you read it, you're like, "Oh, geez." And George R.
Jeremiah Dylan CookGUEST
Martin has cited the book as, Tad Williams' stuff-
Kevin LieberHOST
I've been reading, um, these Tad Williams book.
Kevin LieberHOST
I, I finished The Dragonbone Chair over the weekend, which I loved.
Kevin LieberHOST
But let me, let me explain something to you, okay? The, the big bad guy in the world of Osten Ard is named The Storm King.
Kevin LieberHOST
Like, that could be easily very cringe.
Kevin LieberHOST
But the other thing that I it has made me like the whole book thing, reading books has really opened my eyes to this because.
Kevin LieberHOST
It has been fascinating to me getting into that niche, which is becoming an increasingly smaller niche, people reading fiction, because of the fact that something like The Dragon Bone Chair is a divisive series, in fact.
Kevin LieberHOST
This is not a thing.
Kevin LieberHOST
I think probably the reason that you haven't heard of it.