I'm re-reading *Treason's Harbour* right now, as a matter of fact.*g* I read Temeraire after I read [most of the] O'Brians, and loved both series for different reasons. There's some nice O'Brian hat-tipping going on in Novik's books, too.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Bonobashi <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > > --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > > > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> > > Subject: Re: [silk] Fwd: Favourite books read in 2008 > > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > > Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 6:30 PM > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > > Supriya Nair [13/01/09 19:27 > > +0530]: > > >I also enjoyed the five books so far in Naomi Novik's > > *Temeraire* series, a > > >fantasy in which the Napoleonic Wars are fought with > > dragons. The style is > > >bracing, the action exquisite, and the moral and > > emotional weight of the > > >books deepens with each successive volume. > > > > After reading the aubrey maturin novels of patrick o'brian > > .. fought with > > real ships, not dragons like this one or in deep space like > > the honor > > harrington novels .. > > > > I didnt like the harringtons too much. Loved the obrians. > > > Keep hearing about them, never got around to reading them, especially as my > kid brother gave me a copy of Robert Jordan's Vol. 4. Got tied up for seven > months there. > > So O'Brian it is, I guess. > > What's it like vis-a-vis Hornblower? > > > Check out the all-new Messenger 9.0! Go to > http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/ > > -- roswitha.tumblr.com
