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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Splice the mainbrace! Let's read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels!
 
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Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

 I'll be honest, I flew through the first book in the series (being the most well known)

I'm about 1/4 of the way through the 2nd, and the pacing has made me not want to pick it back up in over a month.

I think it being all about the social niceties of the period is totally killing my men fighting on floating fortresses vibe

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Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

 Finally got passed the hump I was feeling in the book, Jack got a chance to see what his carronades could do !

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Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

I had to force myself to finish Master and Commander my first time. Didn't try the series again for 3 years, and this only in a fit of desperation when I finished Hornblower and couldn't find anymore decent naval fiction.

Now I've re-read the series 4-5 times, and can't really be bothered with Hornblower.

It grows on you. I just had to learn to read Patrick O'Brian.

M&C was easy, I was super excited to read that one and pretty much plowed through it within a few sittings

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Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

BlindGuy posted:

Just from the first book, I adored the phrase, "affectionate violence," and the suggestion that the ship's log doesn't know how to record shaking a fist at one's captain. The dry sense of humor evident in both is a remarkable thing, I do assure you.

As for Jack on land, I feel we got an excellent taste of what to expect during the dinner party scene. His descent into vulgarity was difficult to watch.

I'm torn, incidentally, on the best way to read these books. I have access to all of them in eBOok form, and in Braille from my local library for the blind. There are also, of course, the sublime audiobooks read by Mr. TUll. The ebooks are read much faster than either, thanks to synthetic speech, but I rather feel the experience loses something in the process.

Will be reading Pos Captain as soon as I'm able.

I'm still only about 1/2 way through Post Captain ebook , but I did the audio book version of master and commander and it was great.

Tull adds a little bit of flourish which really makes it

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Splice the mainbrace! Let's read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels!