[ SECRET POST #5479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5479 ⌋

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[philstar22]

How did I not know of these? I'd personally love any of the Valdemar books to be adapted. But now I need to hunt for this series too.

Edit: and now I've ordered the first one from Amazon to arrive tomorrow so I can read it on my vacation this weekend.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the OP but I really liked them! I hope you enjoy book one! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Book two is where the series really kicks off. I wonder if Lackey had originally written book one as a one off, because it really does read like one, and expanded it later.

[philstar22]

Okay, good to know. Still, anything with dragons is worth reading.

[(Anonymous)]

I started reading this series just last week and so far I'm enjoying the world building details about the dragons! I kind of wish that Naomi Novik's dragon books were this thoughtful but I remember being rather disappointed by them.

[des_pudels_kern]

I love Temeraire, but the biggest flaw of the series imo is that the story just jumps from continent to continent, always doing a repeat of "the European are shocked and shamed that this barbarous place is so much more civilised in dragon rights than them" instead of simply staying in place, giving me proper Age of Sail + dragons, and working with the characters and settings already established who would have more than profited from more page time.

Since you know both, how good is the above series in taking its time to let its settings settle and its characters inhabit them?

[(Anonymous)]

It is very much about the characters and the culture, and how the characters develop in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I read the first two of these books YEARS ago and remember almost nothing about them except that I'm pretty sure the culture was based on ancient Egypt. Maybe I should pick em up again

[(Anonymous)]

I got awfully confused between Ancient Egypt and the medieval European terminology of the title. Eventually I just thought, "let it go" and enjoyed the sotires.

[(Anonymous)]

Ancient Egypt and Ancient Babylon/Fertile Crescent. But with Dragons.

[(Anonymous)]

If anything dragons, CGI money pits that they are, scare off studios/producers.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

that much cgi would cost a ton of time and money, especially if the dragons are going to be main characters. best bet would probably be disney taking an interest and loosely basing a film off of it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's because many executives care less about actual social justice and representation than paying lip service to the least possible amount it can get away with.

[(Anonymous)]

I've wanted to do an AU version of these books for at least 2 of my fandoms. I have a lot of fondness for these books, though I haven't read them in years.