I, too, recently read Dragonflight. I don't annotate my books, so I'm not precisely sure when the light bulb of understanding came on for me, but it was well into the book. I thought of DNFing several times, but I wanted to learn more about the dragons because of loving them in The Fourth Wing. Perhaps if I'd read this trilogy 50 years ago, I would not have been so enamored with TFW. I'm about 150 pages into Duncton Wood. It's such a different variety of fantasy with a flavoring of the Walsch books. I understand your attraction to the series. Hulver!! 😢! It's very readable and I'm enjoying it! Thank you for all of your reviews. I'm so happy to have found your channel and enjoy all of your visits!
Thanks again for you kind words. So, I'm not alone in struggling with the beginning of Dragonflight. I am so anxious about you reading Duncton Wood. Yes , it is a specific kind of fantasy (Watership Down-related). Horwood is a master of writing dying scenes. Everytime (not just with Hulver) I get emotional and ecpecially when Bracken guides the dying mole with words into the silence, I tear up. I do hope the rest of the book will make you like it even more.
Great video as always Ed! I have the first trilogy but have yet to read them. I’m looking toward to hearing your thoughts on the rest of the trilogy. I might have to bump it up my TBR so I can catch up
I read Colour of Magic as a kid, but only heard about Dragonflight in recent years getting back into fantasy, never knew about that connection. Definitely want to get to it. Out of the unusal words you listed I would say only ablutions stands out as a native english speaker. The others are fussy words certainly, but not nearly as uncommon as ablutions.
@@DutchGreyBeard Your English is incredible! Definitely fluent. Specifically I would say that most average English speakers wouldn't know the exact meaning of those words either, but most native English speakers who read semi-regularly would (besides ablutions haha).
Pern is on my TBR as well. I recently started Discworld in publication order and I am enjoying it so far. Just finished Sourcery, while Mort is my favorite to this point Looking forward to your eventual Discworld reading experiences.
