Hmmm.... i've never heard of these books before, are they any good? http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/3184223/Peter-Jackson-to-adapt-sci-fi-series
The Temeraire novels are fantastic.... 5 novels I believe... I listened to them on audiobook.... the better way to read... I hope he does them justice. Nice alternate universe that was created there... horatio hornblower with dragons...
They announced Jackson doing Temerarire about 2-3 years ago. It's what got me to read the first three books. I didn't enjoy them, they were very long winded and tedious, like they were actually written in the 1800s
I thought the first Temeraire book was great. Afterwards, I struggled to finish the 2nd and gave up during the third.
Same here. It was a intriguing premise, but for the most part it really didn't go anywhere to interesting.
When I saw this thread title I thought Mortal Engines referred to the Stanislaw Lem novel, which I couldn't believe. Turns out to be justifiably so.
Jackson recently said that if he can make the financing work he might adapt Temeraire as a big budget TV miniseries since that would allow him to tell a complete epic story without having to worry about whether a movie made enough at the box office to allow the story to continue in a sequel.
that's more logical then a movie, there's a lot of story to tell even in the first book. and if you try to include all five....
Similar reading arc for me. I thought the first book was very good, but not great. The major problem I had with it was that the writing could be unclear. Until I got the Del Rey paperbacks, I had no idea how the "rigging" on a dragon actually worked. (I imported the first book as a hardcover from the UK, and it didn't have the rigging diagram.) And I never quite warmed to Laurence as a character. The second book was a chore. The third never hooked me. I have the fourth and fifth, but I've yet to break the spine on either. I'd love to see a movie, though. (I picture Rufus Sewell as Laurence.) And I had, for a time, Todd Lockwood's painting of Temeraire in flight over a British naval squadron as my desktop wallpaper. There must have been something in the water five years ago; Mike Resnick wrote a similar book entitled Dragon America, which posited that dragons were used during the American Revolution.