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Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
(the book is much better than the movie...) ... good to know. I have a friend who is crazy about that series, so I tried it and wasn't too impressed. I stopped after Master and Commander. Maybe I'll give the series another chance. ... Virga
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Culpeper's Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (from Folio)
Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter... by Herman Melville (from LOA) Re #6 Master and Commander series
I had seen the movie and didn't particularly like it, so was reluctant to read the book. Then a good friend (who loves the series & has read it 2 or 3 times) gave me the first 3 books and a companion guide. Her advice to me was, "Don't give up after the ... 5. Historical Literature
1. Master and Commander
2. Post Captain
3. HMS Surprise
4. The Mauritius Command
5. Desolation Island
6. The Fortune of War
7. The Surgeon's Mate
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9. ... No need to hurry, entries will be accepted until October 18th at 8 am PDT.
For example: I expected to really like Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. I enjoy nautical tales and the Napoleonic era is one of my favorites. C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower books have been ... ... Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser. Because I have only read one other Flashman and I wanted to give it another go.
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. Because it is the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series and I like historical novels and I feel the call of the sea!
The ... Just to get things bumped up - Master and Commander? Hi! I just joined this group.
Anyway, I just finished the first three Aubrey/Maturin books (Master and Commander, Post Captain, and HMS Surprise) and am taking a little break. This seemed like a good place to break, as the next book starts a few years after the end of HMS Surprise.
I'm ... Shogun by James Clavell
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy by Gregory Cassham
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
High Rhulain by Brian Jacques (a rhulain is a tribal leader) Re #30: I suppose there is a big audience for Master and Commander, although I share your feeling that it was a tad too salty for this lubber. I also found that while the initial volume works very well as a novel that can stand on its own, many of the later volumes in the series seemed like ... ... is worth some $254.00. Though I like Titian as much as the next guy, I think I too will hold off.
Good idea including Master and Commander, for me it's one of those books that I want desperately to love (since I'm a huge fan of 18th century lit and Jane Austen and rollicking adventures of ... I'm particularly excited about Master and Commander, also The Language Instinct and The Analects and Blake. I really want to know about The Master and Margarita!!
My renewal offer is the Folio Soc Diary and The History of Venice in Painting. Those of you that have done this before, ... I didn't abandon Master and Commander, but I can't say I enjoyed it all that much. I felt very much like I was reading nonfiction; I learned a lot, but I was never really engaged. I plan to read the next book eventually, but I think it's probably going to take me a while to make the leap.
I ... I'm glad to know I'm not the only one re: Master and Commander! All the nautical terms made me feel like I was reading in a foreign language that I didn't really understand. I too couldn't read Master and Commander. After so many rave reviews, I was expecting to at least be able to read it, but I'm sure I didn't make page 10. Gave it to my husband, he couldn't do it either. Gave it away to a charity bookshop right around the time the movie came out, so I'm sure ... I abandoned Master and Commander and gave it away. After the movie came out I thought I should give it another go. So, I bought another copy. It's still staring at me. I remember stopping Master and Commander when I found a sentence that had 37 words describing the weather, and the sentence was longer still. That was a long time ago, though, so I may try to reread it. If I still can't get through it, I have a friend who owns almost every book in the series on ... I quit reading Master and Commander after about 100 pages. I don't think it's crap; it just wasn't for me. The many other unread books on my shelves were calling :) ... surveys?
I would also like to watch with someone:
Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow version)
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Persuasion (Amanda Root version)
Seabiscuit
Xmen ... sinker. *snerk*
Welcome to the fold, Katissima. Lucky you --I have only 2 books to go... and then I'll start again with Master and Commander ;-)
I'd love to listen to the audiobooks (read by Patrick Tull, I have heard all sorts of good things about them), but at about 55$ apiece, they ... Just started reading O'Brian! I'm on Post Captain. I listened to the audiobook version of Master and Commander after seeing the film (great soundtrack by the way!) I actually find it easier to read than listen to, and I didn't like the way the narrator did Stephen's voice. I never thought I ... Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World. He is perfect. Paul Bettany is not Stephen Maturin, but the horrid picture Patrick O'Brian paints of his beloved doctor--there is no one on earth who looks that unpleasant. What books do you read when there are no decent fantasies available?
I love the Aubrey / Maturin books (starting with Master and Commander) by Patrick O'Brien, nautical adventures set during the Napoleonic wars. It's not a fantasy, but it still transports you to another world...
I also ... Ik werk mij de laatste maanden in snel tempo door de Aubrey/ Maturin-serie van Patrick O'Brian (het eerste deel is Master and Commander). Meeslepende boeken spelend tijdens de Napoleontische oorlogen, over een Engelse kapitein en zijn vriend -een dokter uit Ierland-, die samen de zeeën onveilig ... ... than the characters. There's of course Jeeves and Wooster for a lighter touch.
Away from London proper, there's the Master and Commander novels, set during the Napoleonic War in the Royal Navy. It's best to read them in order, but I've always recommend trying to read up through HMS Surp ... ... carried away with descriptions sometimes, but there is plenty of action in this book too. It was a fun read.
14. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien
I enjoyed this book and will probably read more of the series, but I don’t think I will want to re-read it so I am ... ... Nietzche!
I finally finished my 2nd set of 8. The final four were:
Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
The Spy Who Hated Licorice by Richard L. Hershatter
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Amazingly, Green Mars was my favorite ... ... Nietzche!
I finally finished my 2nd set of 8. The final four were:
Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
The Spy Who Hated Licorice by Richard L. Hershatter
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Amazingly, Green Mars was my favorite ... Not so much a long series (20 books) as a world to live in, Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and Commander, etc, ) is superb. Jack Aubrey is a captain in the early 19th century Royal Navy; Stephen Maturin is his ship's surgeon. I'm on my second trip through the series. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien ... tried Horatio Hornblower and whattayacallit - you know - the guys from the Patrick O'Brien book (only the first one, Master and Commander), but all the ship/naval stuff always got in my way. Lambdin has just as many ship-type references, but somehow they don't interfere with a really ... A) General Fiction:
3. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian 14. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
I can't say this will be one of my favorites for 2008. It took far too long to read because I'm afraid I kept on getting a bit bored of it. While I appreciate the language, the scope, and the accuracy of detail, it was too much. In truth, not ... ... turn into Barnes and Nobles. Got the following;
"Rampage and the Drumbeat" by Dudley Pope
The Golden Ocean and Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
I'm a ship rat, so I read Master and Commander over the summer on a sailing trip. I would recommend that book...it's amazing!!!
I saw the movie just a few months ago, and I liked how they portrayed all the relationships. I just didn't like the fact that it was obvious the actors for Aubrey ... ... with a group re-read is Livejournal - I haven't been following it myself, but they're an active group who've just started Master and Commander - http://community.livejournal.com/mandc_read/profile compski I started with Master and Commander which is when he gets his first command (it isn't the first in the series) and I struggled a lot through all the nautical language for a bit and then it sort of clicked. It is also the one in which he befriends the doctor. He tests his ship and his crew ... I like Huzzah! It is so Master and Commander! ... was just good timing--not many papers to grade, books I was reading almost finished, etc. Right now I'm slogging through Master and Commander--not ER obviously, and I've been reading it for months. If I get a book that goes too slowly for me, for whatever reason, I just can't help reading ... ... room slice.
When I asked him about it just now he said he was all for Jane Austen as long as it was offset by the Master and Commander on occassion.
I too was had a Romantics class which featured Austen and I found that many women had found there love of Austen in High School while ... ... I'm reading slowly Not on Our Watch and What is the What by Dave Eggers, as well as still wading through O'Brien's Master and Commander. ... hill
64.12 Books that Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
65.A History of Llanbadarn Fawr by E.G. Bowen
66.Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
67.A Place Called Home by Lori Wick
68.The Bloke's Bible by Dave Hopwood
69.Limitations by Scott Turow
... ... this year. We'll see.
Read so far this year:
1. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Best described as "Master and Commander with fire-breathing dragons." (Note: I have not yet read Master and Commander, but would very much like to once a Kindle edition is released.) A ... Finished this book on Friday while on a plane to Colorado. Loved it.
Spoiler-free abstract: This could be called "Master and Commander with dragons." England pits her ships and dragons against Bonaparte in this story of a surprising addition to England's aviators.
This novel focuses on ... Others that could be paired with Master and Commander are An Infamous Army or The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer. The first is about Waterloo and the second begins in the Peninsula. Master and Commander or Post Captain are part of a series by Patrick O'Brian set during the Napoleonic wars. There are a number of Regency writers that have done war related books. Two of the Slightly series by Mary Balogh, the two before Slightly Dangerous are set around Waterloo. Su ... ... and Sensibility
Persuasion
I also have 1776 that I've been wanting to read and I want to try the Master and Commander series.
Because of recommendations from others on Library Thing, I want to try the following authors Margaret George, John Irving, Bernard ... ... and crucifying all those pirates! Btw, I do like the boy who plays the young Octavian too (he was in the movie version of Master and Commander) I think he does a good job as Octavian, I'll have to see in the next season how credible a job Simon Woods does as the adult Octavian. I'm curious ... ... with Kathryn Erbe
who was in Rich in Love with Albert Finney
who was in A Good Year with Russell Crowe
who was in Master and Commander with Paul Bettany
who was in The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks
who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon ... erton
8. Aunt Dimity Digs In by Nancy Atherton
8 Historical Fiction
1. Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield
2. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
3. Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
5. O'Hara's Choice by Leon Uris
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X. ... I've just started The Book Thief and I'm also reading Blink. On the pile is Atonement before the movie comes out, The Master, A Thousand Splendid Suns and How Proust Can Change Your Life. I'm also reading Silas Marner aloud to my partner. Oh Huzzah, homeschoolmom, you're doing alot of my favorites!
Do start with Master and Commander for O'Brian but if you're willing to try to series go through Post Captain and HMS Surprise as well to give it a fair shot :) I'm not as huge a Hornblower fan myself and should really reread ... ... read by this author, but this one just didn't do it for me. I gave it about a hundred and fifty pages, then bailed.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian - again: not bad, just disappointing. I'd heard so much about how O'Brian developed this amazing friendship between his two ... ... than in action. There are about 26 books in the series, so you will be all right for quite a few Christmases and birthdays. Master and Commander is the first.
It's quite old now, but The wooden world by Professor N.A.M. Rodger is a classic piece of social history, looking into what life was ... ... Lodge), and On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
The Aspern Papers (Henry James), Felony (Emma Tennant), and The Master (Colm Toibin) ... Tantamoq series (children's), Mare Winningham: Stephen King's Lisey's Story, Simon Vance: Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey series and Naomi Novick's Temeraire series ... Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
Murder, She Meowed by Rita Mae Brown
Our Lady of Pain by M. C. Beaton
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Most of these were recommended to me by someone or other on LT. Except the Milne one, that one I've wanted to read since I ... I read Master and Commander and it never really grabbed me either. I enjoyed it, and started the second one in the series, but for some reason never finished it.
Right now I am in my zombie phase, so it might be a while before I am ready again for the high seas. #128 xicanti: Are you in for a treat! That is a terrific series and Master and Commander is a great leadoff. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are two of my very favorite characters. i think I've read the entire series--all 20 books--3-4 times.
If you get hooked on the series, I would ... ... Austin
The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Pet Cemetary by Stephen King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Persuasion by Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility by Jan ... ... by Diana Wynne Jones - library
198. The Secret Lives of Men and Women, compiled by Frank Warren - library
199. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian - seller
200. A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant - library
201. The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregor ... ... - I mean, do we want the whole dutch name of the Nutmeg?
I've put in 2 test ones right now in the location fields - Master and Commander with H.M.S Sophie (ship... although, you know, we could use the () for putting in the type of ship or # of guns for our own edification) and HMS Surpri ... ... Gray. I worship them, religiously.
On the other hand, I'm relieved a few readers dislike Tuesdays with Morrie and Sophie's World. The absolute pits. Frankly, it isn't the books I'm allergic to, but the authors. Ayn Rand is another: anything by her.
Anything in the Popular ... #7: echo, if you started with the first in the series, Master and Commander, I'd say: Wrong book ;-). It isn't quite as good as some of the others. A good book to get a taste of the series is Post Captain or Desolation Island, the first is quite humourous and serves to get to know the main ... ... are the older goodies like the Nordoff-Hall books, starting with Mutiny on the Bounty. I've just recently purchased Master and Commander because some of my buds on the Gene Wolfe list are big fans of Patrick O'brian. Haven't started it yet, but I bet others here have. ... by Neal Stephenson and The Battle of Alamein by John Bierman. Tonight I will start Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, then the rest of the series. ... with the Generals by Derek Hansen
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian ... Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Spock Enslaved by D.T. Steiner
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian ... it with the Pawn of Prophecy in Belgariad series
Patrick O'Brian has got me hooked on the naval warfare books with Master and Commander
... makes sense that there would be a lot of non-cynical writing there. I really should read at least The Killer Angels and Master and Commander someday. I haven’t heard much about Renault though. (Unfortunately, I have run afoul of some excruciating historical fiction, like The Dress ... The Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian starting with Master and commander are excellent reads although it takes a little while to appreciate some of the terms regarding sails, masts and other nautical hardware. Following on in the nautical theme, a more recent book (one that I've just ... ... George MacDonald Fraser - nice long series there.
Or for naval fiction how about the Aubrey/Maturin books starting with Master And Commander by Patrick O'Brian. That is 20 books long - note the film jammed a number of books together.
For crime (as opposed to mystery) I like Ian Rankin ... ... Mansfield Park. There is also classical violin music and food like spotted dick. There was a film of the first called master and commander. ... on board a ship during the Napoleonic wars, and then proceeds to get herself in (and usually out) of trouble... it's very Master and Commander crossed with True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. New LT participant. I'm halfway through Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. This is my first try with the Aubrey/Maturin series, but I saw and liked the movie last year. This was a serious violation of my "book first, then movie" rule. ... way behind schedule, but hopefully, now that it's becoming an actual challenge, I'll be able to step it up a little.
8) Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
This is the first published book in a multi-book series featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his good friend Dr. Stephen Maturin. ... 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens c
I decided that I would list the books that I want to read next.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen-this is for a February book club
Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan
T ... ... Daughter by Amy Tan r
2. Love comes Softly by Jannette Oke r
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon c
4. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian n
Outlander is over 800 pages so its taking a little longer. I have vowed I would read at least three major books this ... ... and am currently working on Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Loving it and only on page 158. I am also skimming thru Master and Commander as I've borrowed it from the library. I wasn't sure it I would like it so I read half of the first chapter. Looks good!! Heard lots of great things ... ... blackeminence... :-)
There are actually 20 of 'em. The first of Patrick O'Brian's books in the series was indeed Master and Commander, but there isn't much connection with what is happening in the film (the rough story was taken from book 10 The far side of the world). I strongly ... ... Emperor series, about the life of Julius Caesar), Manda Scott (who wrote about Boudica) and Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander, about the British Navy in the early 19th century)
And one other author that I forgot.... James Clavell. His Asian Saga books, about Japan (Shog ... ... ordered a Diana Gabaldon Outlander and Dorothy Dunnett The Game of Kings. Believe it or not, have not read the Master and commander series but have checked out the library for them. Like I said, my list is getting longer by the day. Since we're overseas, our library doesn't have ... ... extraordinary $1 shelf was a bit dangerous for my pocketbook.
Head: Put that book down - you don't need another copy of Master and Commander!
Interior Library: But it's a dollar! For the proper trade paper back cover! I could lend it out!
Head: You already have a loaning set of that ... I'm currently reading Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. I am reading it very very slowly because I am enjoying it so much. I'm inordinately excited that there are nineteen more in the series. I have read the first Patrick O'Brien book, Master and Commander, and kept waiting for something to happen, throughout the whole book! I was disappointed. I don't know if I'll try the second, perhaps it does get better. ... head for it. My friends happily tell of my one disastrous experience with grog after attempting to emulate Jack Aubrey of Master and Commander ... point for history. I suppose the two most important time periods would be Regency England/Napoleonic France by way of Master and Commander and the American Civil War through The Killer Angels. Still (slowly) working my way through Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. I'm enjoying it, but my limited knowledge of naval terms and language means that reading takes a lot more effort than normal, and is therefore going a lot more slowly. Goal is to have it done by tomorrow so that I ... Slowly ploughing through Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian - I'm enjoying it for the characters and the period details, but I'm not well-versed enough in nautical language that I ever entirely understand what's going on in the action. I can get a general sense of things from context, ... ... through this, but it does include a long excerpt by Lord Cochrane which is mirrored in the Sophie's adventures in Master and Commander
And, out side of the realm of books, I highly recommend Musical Evenings with the Captain (I, II, III is called Musical Evenings in the Captain's Cab ... ipsographic, my boyfriend and I mean to read them together - we'll be starting Master and Commander sometime soon I hope :) ... series. Of course I had to read the books after that, and since I believe in always reading series in order, I started with Master and Commander. I still haven't got to the pottos (I think they make their appearance in The Commodore), but I was hooked from page one!
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