While author Patrick O'Brian had never been a sailor, he did do a lot of meticulous research about boats and the 19th century British navy. Unfortunately, he felt the need to dump every bit of that research into his debut novel. Instead of picking and choosing which details were relevant, and whic...
Wish I could find a cover image for this edition!!!The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars was that I found the first couple of CDs - the 'before we got to sea' bits - quite tedious. I also thought it ended quite abruptly. Apart from these minor quibbles, I found this book quite marvelou...
Master and Commander has got to be one of the better books I've read in quite some time. The narration just sucked me in, and the story was phenomenal! I can't believe it took me this long to actually pick up this book from my bookcase and read it. The characters are strong and the action is grea...
I love the book for the development of characters, sea adventures, and especially for the friendship between Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.I have yet to finish reading the entire series. This is definitely on to-do list.
I find this book to be simply excellent and so so grateful to Betsy for recommending it. Oh and yes, I struggled with naval words and even some archaic dialogue which is not naval, English is my second language you see.Having said that, in the middle of the book I started to feel that I live there, ...
I picked this nautical adventure up after seeing the movie, which I thought was quite entertaining (and had Excellent sea battle scenes). It's the first of a very long series of similar adventures by the author. After reading it, I could see how the series could stretch on - it doesn't really have a...
Master and Commander begins English author Patrick O'Brian's lush and literary epic seafaring historical fiction series based on the career of a naval captain during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Through out the entire series O'Brian delves into the themes of love, war and friendship. At the hear...
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