Anstallion wrote: Sorry to hear that  but thanks to you ill look into Temeraire. Ive briefly looked up the book on the internet and it seems to be alot of dragons in the series! do they all talk? i might read the first book in the series once ive finished How To Train A Dragon. ive always wanted to read a book like Temeraire. Can you tell me more about it?
The Temeraire series is, in my opinion, the most awesome series about dragons ever in the history of the universe. It's set during the Napoleonic wars and is about a naval captain adopting a newly-hatched talking dragon who quickly bloats into a vast and powerful one, and the two of them fly around fighting Napoleon. The best thing about it is that the relationships between the dragons and their captains are almost openly romantic. There's a lot of this:
Quote: Temeraire snorted and shook his head like a dog, sending water flying, and ducked down beneath his own hastily opened wings, which he curled about himself. Laurence, still tucked up against his side and holding to the harness, found himself also sheltered by the living dome. It was exceedingly strange to be so snug in the heart of a raging storm; he could still see out through the places where the wings did not overlap, and a cool spray came in upon his face.
And this:
Quote: Temeraire was already asleep, curled neatly about himself, but before Laurence could slip away again, one of his eyes half-opened, and he lifted his wing in instinctive welcome. Laurence had taken a blanket from the stables; he was as warm and comfortable as he could wish, stretched upon the dragon’s broad foreleg.
“Is all well?” Temeraire asked him softly, putting his other foreleg protectively around Laurence, sheltering him more closely against his breast; his wings half-rose, mantling. “Something has distressed you. Shall we not go at once?”
And even some of this:
Quote: “If you would like to have your ship back,” Temeraire said, “I will let someone else ride me. Not him, because he says things that are not true; but I will not make you stay.”
Laurence stood motionless for a moment, his hands still on Temeraire’s head, with the dragon’s warm breath curling around him. “No, my dear,” he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. “I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.”
It's every soppy herp's dream, both wet and regular, and I totally recommend it. Peter Jackson has bought the rights to the Temeraire series, which means that hopefully in a few years (if he's not too busy having sex with his GODDAMN giant monkeys) he'll turn them into a movie. BUT the more dragon films that come out in the interim (Eragon and now this damn Viking animation, for instance), the less likely it is ever to happen!
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