Meteor Man
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The movie is one of my favorites as well. 
But back to the books.
But back to the books.
What book are you currently reading?
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Indeed, the Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World film is fun, but the plot of the movie significantly altered and a lot of the events depicted are culled from several different books in the 20-volume series. I thought Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany did fairly well as Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin (respectively), and it was great to see so many other principal characters (Tom Pullings, William Mowett, Barrett Bonden, Preserved Killick, Peter Calamy, and of course HMS Surprise herself) in living color.
That said, yeah, back to the books. If anyone else has read Master and Commander and the rest of the series, or is interested in other O'Brian works, speak up!
That said, yeah, back to the books. If anyone else has read Master and Commander and the rest of the series, or is interested in other O'Brian works, speak up!
Bartleby
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I've just started reading Hunter Thompson's The Rum Diary again.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Indeed, the Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World film is fun, but the plot of the movie significantly altered and a lot of the events depicted are culled from several different books in the 20-volume series. I thought Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany did fairly well as Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin (respectively), and it was great to see so many other principal characters (Tom Pullings, William Mowett, Barrett Bonden, Preserved Killick, Peter Calamy, and of course HMS Surprise herself) in living color.
That said, yeah, back to the books. If anyone else has read Master and Commander and the rest of the series, or is interested in other O'Brian works, speak up!
I own Master and Commander, but I've never read it. I've read about the series, so I'm excited for when I actually do get to it. I admittedly had never heard of the series before I saw the movie, and loved the movie so much that I went looking for the books.
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I've started reading Gardens of the Moon twice but never finished it. There was a bit too much magic and divine intervention for my taste and it started off too confusing.
It was muche easier gettign into A Song of Ice and Fire.
Just decided to read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton again (actually the german translation which consists of six books).
I read the books eight years ago before I started to read all books by english speaking writers untranslated.
Excellent, good to hear. That was my hope for the movie - that it would raise the visibility of the series and get some new readers interested in O'Brian's work. The film itself is pretty cool, especially if you're already familiar with the series (they did a great job of putting in a lot of little details that fans would catch) but it's such a narrow view into the world of Aubrey and Maturin that it doesn't do the books anywhere near the justice they deserve. The film is essentially just one long sea-chase, which is cool, but that'd be maybe about 30 or 40 pages of one 300 pg book, and there are 20 of those books.
Now, go start reading Master and Commander, please.
I just finished Oliver Sacks' The Mind's Eye and am now starting in on Losing the Peace by William Leisner, a TNG relaunch novel set immediately after the events of David Mack's Destiny trilogy.
sophie
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Careful, that's dangerous, that. The last time I did that I didn't have a life for the next 4 days as I went back and reread the entire series. Only just now got past it.
And on that note! I'm starting on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain, which is one of those books which I've always wanted to read (I think I actually tried reading it once in 3rd grade), but never actually got around to.
The War After Armageddon, by Ralph Peters.
Back in the late 1970's-80's, there was a brief genre of military fiction featuring World War III between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. General Sir John Hackett wrote The Third World War, which was seen on Jimmy Carter's Oval Office desk. Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising was perhaps the most famous, but there were versions by Harold Coyle, Larry Bond and others. What they all seemed to have in common was victory by the West. America and it's Allys always pulled it out.
One notable exception was Ralph Peter's Red Army, which was not only an enjoyable novel and a modest best seller - but it also featured a Ruskie win and a persuasive story line. Peter's books remain unconventional, and The War After is another example. What does America have to do to defeat militant Islam? Become just like them...
-465 pages, Tom Doherty paperback, 2009.
Back in the late 1970's-80's, there was a brief genre of military fiction featuring World War III between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. General Sir John Hackett wrote The Third World War, which was seen on Jimmy Carter's Oval Office desk. Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising was perhaps the most famous, but there were versions by Harold Coyle, Larry Bond and others. What they all seemed to have in common was victory by the West. America and it's Allys always pulled it out.
One notable exception was Ralph Peter's Red Army, which was not only an enjoyable novel and a modest best seller - but it also featured a Ruskie win and a persuasive story line. Peter's books remain unconventional, and The War After is another example. What does America have to do to defeat militant Islam? Become just like them...
-465 pages, Tom Doherty paperback, 2009.
