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bob48

#2730
December 22, 2015, 11:10:27 AM
Its definitely the first book. Second is 'Post captain' and third is 'HMS Surprise' :-)

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Mr. Bigglesworth

#2731
December 22, 2015, 11:14:11 AM
Quote from: bob48 on December 22, 2015, 11:10:27 AM
Its definitely the first book. Second is 'Post captain' and third is 'HMS Surprise' :-)

The swines marketed the set in the wrong order.
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bob48

#2732
December 22, 2015, 01:32:06 PM
:-((
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Gusington

#2733
December 22, 2015, 10:42:50 PM
Did you guys like the M&C movie? Not ever having read it, I love the movie.
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Mr. Bigglesworth

#2734
December 22, 2015, 11:14:30 PM
The movie was great.
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- Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598

Airborne Rifles

#2735
December 22, 2015, 11:37:01 PM
The movie is a mashup of several of the books, and it's great. Really catchiest the spirit of the books and the characters.

Silent Disapproval Robot

#2736
December 23, 2015, 02:33:43 AM
Quote from: Gusington on December 22, 2015, 10:42:50 PM
Did you guys like the M&C movie? Not ever having read it, I love the movie.

It's a very good movie but they made a few major changes to the story in order to make it marketable to a wider audience. It combined the stories from Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World and changed the bad guys to the French instead of the Americans.  It also cut out a lot of detail about whaling as the Brits were trying to defend their Pacific whaling fleets from the American raider.  I thought the film's climax was better than the novel's but I won't spoil that ending here.

bob48

#2737
December 23, 2015, 08:11:06 AM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on December 22, 2015, 11:37:01 PM
The movie is a mashup of several of the books, and it's great. Really catchiest the spirit of the books and the characters.

Absolutely right, AR.
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'Clip those corners'

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Martok

#2738
December 23, 2015, 04:50:25 PM Last Edit: December 23, 2015, 05:16:11 PM by Martok
Watching the movie (which I own) is what made me want to sit down and read the books in the first place. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

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bob48

#2739
December 23, 2015, 05:16:17 PM
Honestly, invest the time - you won't regret it I assure you.
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'Clip those corners'

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besilarius

#2740
December 23, 2015, 07:22:28 PM
Aubrey and Maturin are both good, but honestly preferred Bolitho or Ramage more.
If you're finished with O'Brian's, do yourself a favor and check out these two other series.
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bob48

#2741
December 24, 2015, 06:23:27 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 23, 2015, 07:22:28 PM
Aubrey and Maturin are both good, but honestly preferred Bolitho or Ramage more.
If you're finished with O'Brian's, do yourself a favor and check out these two other series.

Ramage is not bad, and we have all the Bolitho books, as Mrs.B prefers those. I found that the Bolitho character went a bit too 'soft' after author Douglas Reeman remarried (to a younger wife), the later books are definitely not as good as the earlier ones. However, the books he published under his own name, especially those about the Royal Marines, are pretty good.

For period flavour, O'Brian is still top of the bunch.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Martok

#2742
December 24, 2015, 01:17:38 PM
Just about finished with Red Storm Rising.  Up next:  Either Hell's Foundations Quiver (which I got for Christmas) or a re-read of Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy (I finally picked up my own copies a couple months ago).  Decisions, decisions... 




Quote from: bob48 on December 23, 2015, 05:16:17 PM
Honestly, invest the time - you won't regret it I assure you.
I believe you.  Time to move it up to near the top of my list, I think.  I haven't spent any time in the sub-genre since I read Forester's Hornblower series, and I'm definitely feeling something of an itch. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Gusington

#2743
December 28, 2015, 06:39:40 PM
Just cracked open The Illustrated Guide of Weapons of WWI edited by Chris Bishop.
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bob48

#2744
December 28, 2015, 06:45:27 PM
One of my sons gave me 'The Winter war. The Russo-Finnish war of 1939-40' by William R Trotter, so I'll be getting stuck into that. Not read much about the Russo-Finnish war.
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