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So recently I became interested in this series and I thought to ask my dad who was a load master in the airforce in the late 70s/early 80s if he had any of these books, since he used to buy tons of books to kill time on his frequent ocean-crossing flights and remembered Age-of-Sail books as one of the genres he'd buy (alongside trashy fantasy novels). Digging through his boxes he wasn't able to find any Aubrey-Maturin novels (yet?), but he did end up finding a stack of at least a dozen Bolitho novels by Alexander Kent. Are these books any good?
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I'll admit that this game is the reason for my sudden interest in age-of-sail fiction and why I asked about the Bolitho novels.  And thanks for the words about them, I'll ask my dad to pack em up and send them to me. I might just go to the library/book store and get Master and Commander first though.
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So I'm reading Post Captain after finishing Master and Commander a week or so ago. Jack and Stephen's Countryside unadventures were kind of interesting, but now things are finally getting set into motion and... What o, the Bear! Can he dance, mate?  This is the best/worst disguise/plan ever
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Feb 10, 2016 08:38
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To be fair, we haven't seen Nate shoot even one person yet.  Wait. Why is this post in this thread. 
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Aug 16, 2016 04:26
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uPen posted:Wat ho the bear! A scene not at sea.
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Book four is what I left off on. For some reason I was struggling to keep interested. It wasn't bad, Aubrey dealing with the responsibility of a Commodore was neat. prob just burnout.
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Dec 2, 2016 21:41
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I though the nobility was on his Catalonian side?
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Feb 17, 2017 02:15
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Just do an Anime adaptation ala Legend of the Galactic Heroes. 
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Jul 24, 2017 15:13
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Just to make things clear, this kind of polishing requires grinding, yes?
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Aug 24, 2017 21:04
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It shows how centric sailing and the sea were to the British Empire in just how many common terms or phrases in the English language have nautical origins as slang or technical terms.
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Sax Solo posted:The KillJamesBond! podcast has done an episode on the movie. They respond a lot to movie-Hollum's fate to decide against the "dudes rock" Twitter consensus and the very shallow analysis of the professional critics. Amusing, but the one lady making constant Star Trek comparisons was killing me, lol. Deeply painful.
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Sailor’s sweetheart Sophie the secret sapphic stolen by surgeon’s spouse would’ve been an interesting twist.
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