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Old 03-09-2017, 09:37 AM   #25518
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
I tried reading this last year, but got bogged down during their interminable stay off the California coast gathering cow hides.
That's where I am now. I like it, California when it was still part of Mexico. A lot of scope for the imagination, as Anne Shirley would have it. It's the shipboard parts where I have to let some of it wash over me. After O'Brian, I'm familiar with the terms, but I don't necessarily know exactly what they all mean.

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This was one of my favourite books from my teens, discovered as I was looking for something to read after I'd devoured the Hornblower books. (And LONG before O'Brian was writing. Even before Alexander Kent was available in the US.) I haven't re-read it recently, but might be worth considering.
Hornblower is on my list; I'd be likelier to get to him sooner if my libraries had him. Or I could head for the border, since Forester hit PD in Canada this year.
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