--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Fwd: Favourite books read in 2008
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 6:30 PM
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> 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?
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