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The problem with that analysis . . .I'd be inclined to agree with it, but the books have such flashes of such immense joy, joy beyond all disappointment
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Don't forget Dr. Maturin treated him for syphilis several times, so he probably ended up giving it to her. Look, Maturin treats you, you're cured, stands to reason
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AngusPodgorny posted:Regarding the duel (spoilered because the resolution was one of my favorite things in the series): I figure neither of them actually wanted to duel, so they took the convenient excuse to postpone it, then just never brought it up again. Which seems out of place in a book because authors normally only set up conflict for the purpose of resolving it dramatically, but it's pretty genuine to real life where you'll find out something or something'll happen, but then there's an unspoken "you know what, let's just pretend that never happened." There is a blink and you'll miss it elliptical resolution, I forget where but somewhere in the same book, where they both apologize without apologizing explicitly. (You're essentially correct)
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Wait bigger ships can go faster? . . .I think I had picked that up actually but it's still weird
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MrMojok posted:Just watched the movie, for the first time in a few years. I played the beta and it was great but then it went open world pvp and got ehh. Might be good now no idea. The basic mechanics were great.
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MockingQuantum posted:I just finished Blue at the Mizzen and my first read of all of the A-U books and I'm genuinely kind of broken up about it. I started Master & Commander sometime around the beginning of the pandemic and these books have, in some small way at least, helped me get through the last two years. It felt like how fantasy novels were for me as a kid, when I needed something completely fantastical and fictional to escape from everyday life sometimes, and I would get totally transported by whatever I was reading. I loved these books, and I'm sure I'll read them all again, likely sooner than later. Congratulations, you now have ahead of you the best re-reading experience I'm aware of. These books are so rich on re-read because with each passage through you learn how to read them better. I've posted it before, but Jo Walton had a great series of posts on Tor.com a few years ago, on re-reading these books: https://www.tor.com/series/re-reading-patrick-obrians-aubrey-maturin-series/ To quote briefly from her post on 21, quote:There isn’t much here—this isn’t an unfinished book so much as a barely started one, just a few chapters flapping in the wind. There are some lovely things . . . . But this is thin stuff, pretty much first draft, unrevised, and with only hints of where the story would have taken us.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I thoroughly enjoyed the Auberyad, and have been on a bit of a Napoleonic Era kick ever since. I was wondering, what is this threads opinion on the Sharpe books? I have heard that they get on the repetitious side of things, but that aside are they worth the time it takes to read them? As others have said, they're very good, just not great -- better than most historical fiction just not on the same level of prose or characterization as Patrick O'Brian's writing. They're one of the few series where you probably want to read them in internal chronological order, rather than in the order the author wrote them, because Cornwell plotted Sharpe's whole career out start to finish first, then wrote whichever parts seemed interesting until he'd filled it all in.
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Sharpe also bizarrely manages to be at Trafalgar while Aubrey doesnt
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Austen typically is writing with multiple levels of irony -- the character, the narrator, the author, and the reader. There's an Annotated P&P that I recommend highly
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it's even worse than that. The main thing getting in Clonfert's way is Clonfert. If he could just. . . chill
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Anyone this deep in this thread, please consider this month's Book of the Month: Renault is the only other writer of historical fiction on O'Brians' level. https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1653514266266279936?s=20
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Sax Solo posted:How are they on like writing skills though? O'Brian is meticulous but I think on top of that he's a very deft writer. No one is quite as subtle a stylist as O'Brian but renault"s character work is on par or maybe superior. She makes you believe you're listening to Theseus, or Alexander, or Socrates.
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Grendel posted:He's definitely presented as unexceptional, money-wise, but he owns a ruined castle and has several tenants at that point, and I seem to recall him claiming to either be worth 10 000 pounds (about a million dollars today), or to have an income of 10 000 pounds a year. By the standards of the rural gentry, that would make him a very respectable catch, though not hugely impressive. 10,000 a year is what D'Arcy is pulling down in Pride and Prejudice; that would make Stephen near-royalty.
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Bettany is too tall and too handsome for Maturin, and yeah Bonden isn't a hobbit, but I mean 
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StrixNebulosa posted:My mail is here! This is what I'd suggest. Read as Thou Wilt is the Whole of the Law but Post Captain genuinely is a great book and it sets up a lot of the rest of the series.
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yeah as always if any part of it isn't working just let it wash over you and sail forward
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You gotta have bad times to make the good times real, my good sea bro
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Think of it! Fresh honey!
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StrixNebulosa posted:‘The captain is under way’ / ‘He has catted his fish’ what on earth does that mean? Context? He's launched his boat and is moving forward and has secured his anchor.
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skasion posted:
He wrote a bunch of good poo poo in that same vein.
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StrixNebulosa posted:adaptation (haven't seen yet) What are you doing here, man Oceans are now Battlefields!
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StrixNebulosa posted:I don't want to picture Russell Crowe as Aubrey in my head while I'm reading Ok fair Bettany's Maturin is the bigger issue though, too tall and too pretty
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The Sharpe TV series isn't bad at all. My favorite bit was when they put the French soldiers in historically accurate floppy chef hats
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Phenotype posted:https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1768291733249327389 I'm literally tearing up this is so nice
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