You'll have to forgive me since it has been a while since I have done an essay like this, but with my sporking coming up I really wanted some practice, so I thought I would do something that has really been on my mind lately. I hope you all enjoy ( Read more... )

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So I bought His Majesty's Dragon today. I read about twenty-five pages of it. Awesome book! Thanks for the rec!

BUT GUESS WHAT THIS BOOK IS COMPARED TO ON THE BACK COVER.

*sobs*

I'm sure at least some of you read and love the Temeraire books by Naimo Novik. This DeviantArt member certainly does, and decided to give Eragon some realistic reactions to his stupidity.

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Enjoy. *snicker*

A few weeks ago I mentioned Naomi Novik's new Temeraire trilogy, only recently released in the US, and I promised a comparison between the first book, His Majesty's Dragon, and Eragon. And I promised to finish much earlier than this. I'm lazy, though, so I've missed all my self-imposed deadlines. Terribly sorry. Here's the comparison now, in ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned His Majesty's Dragon, Book 1 of the Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik. I bought it a day later, and I finished it over a week ago. After a brief email discussion with quenbolyn concerning the similarities and differences between HMD and Eragon, I sat down to write an entry about it. After all, the two books ( Read more... )