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I'm trying to branch out some and read other books for a little while, since it's not reasonable to immediately re-read the whole thing. Definately looking forward to some Austen, which is a feeling I never considered I might be feeling. However, I just got the cook book! I think I'll mainly try the various drinks and desserts initially. VendoViper posted:I will have to try making one of the shrubs soon, but I just put a drowned baby in the pot. Excited to pull it out in a few hours and see what the rage is all about. I mean it's basically a desert where the whole thing is made out of pie crust, so i am not sure how it could go wrong. CarterUSM posted:If you're going to use a Papin's digester, for God's sake don't put a smoothing iron on the safety valve to make it cook faster. Hmm, this actually sounds like it will save me some time...
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I feel I must try the shrubs soon. I've in vain tried getting my friends to join me in the making of a drowned baby, a shrub is probably a better gateway. Other than that, I just got Beasts Royal in the mail. There was some trouble with the shipping and I had entirely forgotten I had ordered it, looking forward to reading it. Has anyone here tried the non Aubrey-Maturin books by O'Brian?
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I recently started the third book of Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastards series and thought I once or twice recognized certain turns of phrase or an O'brian feeling, and had to google it, and sure enough:quote:Q: I know that you’re a big fan of Patrick O’Brian. Could the entire”piracy on the high seas” story arc of this book be considered somekind of homage to his work? I didn't detect it when I read his last book years ago (which took place largely on a ship) simply because I hadn't yet read the Aubrey/Maturin series by then. For some reason I just love when people bring up O'Brian, or when he pops up in stuff like Parks & Rec. ovenboy fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's actually bothered me for a while, but usually in the car, then I forget to look it up or ask. POB is usually really good about avoiding anachronisms, so I thought it was odd. Lockback posted:
This sort of thing almost always bring a tear to my eye, I often find this sort of platonic love very moving. Lockback posted:Also add just about any description of Stephen laughing. Heh, yeah.
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They could also possibly have used some form of evaporative cooling.
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Nuclear War posted:There's a book called "the long ships" which to me captured the feel of being written in the "style of the time" more than a description through modern eyes, much like the Aubrey books a lot. I've read it in English and Swedish I think, and they were both good. I adore The Long Ships. It is one of those books that I feel I can reread now and again for my entire life, much like O'Brian. Frans G. Bengtsson, when asked about his motivations for writing it: "Oh, nothing in particular. I just wanted to write a readable book that people wouldn't feel like chucking into a wall, without any literary pretenses. Something along the lines of The Odyssey or The Three Musketeers." The language is terse and to the point, like when one character tells a friend of the aftermath of an attempt on his life and says something along the lines of: "He ran for his life, but for the same life ran I."
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Puddings, my dear sir? Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, what's a fritoon Sadly, I couldn't find any fritoons in LOBSCOUSE & SPOTTED DOG. D:
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I feel like there was something along those lines regarding the ship they pick up (all grown up) Richardson from, but I can't quite place it.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:
Certainly! I just happened upon the splendid soldiers just as we were discussing all the ships full of young Apollos and thought that it was a fun coincidence.
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Anyone else longing for a philosophical garment for this autumn?
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What's sparkling juice? Like light cider?
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