Obrian is a lot more literate. Hornblower is kinda boys own type fiction. Obrian is more like dickens. I will send you these when am back home.
-- srs / nokia e71 -original message- Subject: Re: [silk] Fwd: Favourite books read in 2008 From: "Bonobashi" <[email protected]> Date: 12-03-2009 18:41 --- 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 > > -----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/
