In other words-- I couldn't sleep last night and wanted something good, I thought I'd read a chapter of "Napoleonic wars with dragons." Then I read the entire book overnight. (I found the first three books in one volume, with only one small chunk of pages falling out at the end-- I love my used-book store.) I was about to start crying when the one dragon died, and I'm too frazzled to even remember names that feel made-up. (Those take the second reading for me to get properly.)
All of it is PERFECT for the literary setup and follow-through. I can think "alright, that one's marked to get a dragon" and "yep, she has a reason for that" and "OMG WOMEN!" and it all comes through... eventually, and not exactly in the way I expected.
So yeah. Nerdgasms over all of the research, and I'm already planning how quickly I can read the next two books/find the third so that I can shove the trilogy-book at my dad and say "read this." He's just as much of a nerd as I am, and PETER JACKSON OPTIONED THE BOOKS. So he could feasibly go from The Hobbit to making a whole lot of people-and-dragons movies and even steal half of the Lord of the Rings cast just because he CAN and who the hell wouldn't fly dragons.
/don't mind me too much, I'm coming out of three weeks of insomnia by hitting the Emergency Reset button, luckily with no tests on the immediate horizon. I didn't sleep last night, I was too busy trying to study physiology and then happily imagining how dragons would appear, to the point that I realized on first glance at a picture that they have the details for the Chinese vs. European dragons wrong-- Chinese had 6 spines for the wings, but in the picture that breed had 5 and the others had 6, and the feet were all wrong besides.
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In other words-- I couldn't sleep last night and wanted something good, I thought I'd read a chapter of "Napoleonic wars with dragons." Then I read the entire book overnight. (I found the first three books in one volume, with only one small chunk of pages falling out at the end-- I love my used-book store.) I was about to start crying when the one dragon died, and I'm too frazzled to even remember names that feel made-up. (Those take the second reading for me to get properly.)
All of it is PERFECT for the literary setup and follow-through. I can think "alright, that one's marked to get a dragon" and "yep, she has a reason for that" and "OMG WOMEN!" and it all comes through... eventually, and not exactly in the way I expected.
So yeah. Nerdgasms over all of the research, and I'm already planning how quickly I can read the next two books/find the third so that I can shove the trilogy-book at my dad and say "read this." He's just as much of a nerd as I am, and PETER JACKSON OPTIONED THE BOOKS. So he could feasibly go from The Hobbit to making a whole lot of people-and-dragons movies and even steal half of the Lord of the Rings cast just because he CAN and who the hell wouldn't fly dragons.
/don't mind me too much, I'm coming out of three weeks of insomnia by hitting the Emergency Reset button, luckily with no tests on the immediate horizon. I didn't sleep last night, I was too busy trying to study physiology and then happily imagining how dragons would appear, to the point that I realized on first glance at a picture that they have the details for the Chinese vs. European dragons wrong-- Chinese had 6 spines for the wings, but in the picture that breed had 5 and the others had 6, and the feet were all wrong besides.
Also, I am sending my address by message.