Books
A couple of weeks ago while on my lunch break at work, I was in a bookshop as usual. I was looking at the Terry Pratchett books and I happened to look down to the left and saw a hardback book with a couple of dragons outside of is it St Paul's Cathedral? It was called Victory of Eagles and reading the synopsis I discovered it was the fifth book in
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An interesting thing about the voucher, they give it back and my mother was able to re-use it today. Hmm, I wonder if they gave it back afterward.
Mind you I devoured them in quick sucession which possibly didn't help.
I've done that with a few series. I know when I read the Mary Russell series I was reading them close together and I tried to make myself slow down to try and space them out for when the next book comes out next year. Of course when I heard about the signing I had to speed up again and read them all before I went.
I did find Terry Pratchett's books hard going when I tried to do the same with them. I got through the first 3 books in the Rincewind series, but it was slow going. They're good books I think the main problem is no chapters. You don't have chapters to aim for. You have to be remembering page numbers all of the time.
I heard she was thinking of 9 or 10 in this series,
Oh, I didn't think it'd be as many as that.
presumably going all the way through the Napoleonic wars though the more the series goes on the more it seems to differ from real history.
I guess I'm at a slight disadvantage, we never studied the Napoleonic wars, so I wouldn't know how it was differing from history (other than the no dragons being in the actual history thing*G*).
is interesting to have that twisting of history and as you say having women enabled too.
But then it would be interesting to see how dragons would have an effect on other eras as well? Would for example airplanes still have been built or would dragons have been used for commercial flights, etc. I rather think that planes would still have been developed though dragons would be restricted to a certain height to stop collisions mid air.
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That's very useful if they did. Or didn't as you've had two uses out of it.
I've done that with a few series. I know when I read the Mary Russell series I was reading them close together and I tried to make myself slow down to try and space them out for when the next book comes out next year. Of course when I heard about the signing I had to speed up again and read them all before I went.
*nods* Yeah it's more fun to space them out.
They're good books I think the main problem is no chapters. You don't have chapters to aim for. You have to be remembering page numbers all of the time.
That would drive me mad I think.
Oh, I didn't think it'd be as many as that.
I'll be interested to see how she keeps it going over that many I'll be honest.
I guess I'm at a slight disadvantage, we never studied the Napoleonic wars, so I wouldn't know how it was differing from history (other than the no dragons being in the actual history thing*G*).
We didnlt really but I was brought up with history being important so am self taught ;-)
History would be more interesting with dragons.
But then it would be interesting to see how dragons would have an effect on other eras as well? Would for example airplanes still have been built or would dragons have been used for commercial flights, etc. I rather think that planes would still have been developed though dragons would be restricted to a certain height to stop collisions mid air.
I had the same thought I think you would have to have something for commerical flights but I think the dragons tend to fly lower than planes can go so it would work all right.
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