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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3596219" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>I must shamefacedly admit that I am not "reading" as such as I am listening to books on my Ipod.</p><p></p><p>The series that has captured my utter amazement is Patrick O'Brian's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O'Brian" target="_blank">Master & Commander </a> series. The mode of writing is utterly thick and deliberately in the erudite mode of speech of the day in favor amongst the chattering classes. Throw in the naval terminology in which one is literally immersed and it is extremely tough slogging to read. I never could get by reading the first two chapters in <em>Master & Commander</em> ever before - it just put me in such a fuddle I couldn't get by the prose and terminology.</p><p></p><p>But on audio it was easier - difficult to be sure - but easier. </p><p></p><p>After a few painful chapters I got over the hump and fell in love with this stuff. I <strong>FINALLY</strong> get it. The prose of O'Brian is utterly authentic of the period - that's why he writes it the way he does. It's supposed to be immersive, and make it feel authentic and transportive and it does and it is. </p><p></p><p>In my respectful opinion, Tom Clancy, naval historian that he was, <u>must </u>have read O'Brian before he started writing his own novels. Because I tell you, Tom Clancy **RIPPED OFF** Patrick O'Brian. Completely and utterly - Tom Clancy is, in fact, a Patrick O'Brian pastiche, without the prose and substituting high tech of the 20th and 21st centuries for the high tech of the 18th Century - featured by O'Brian.</p><p></p><p>Tom Clancy did not invent the techno thriller; Patrick O'Brian did. It just so happened that Patrick O'Brian's tech happened to be in the Age of Sail and used canon and roundshot, musket and ball, royals and mizzens. </p><p></p><p>As for the audio books, they are *brilliantly* narrated and feel so amazingly **real** I cannot help but recommend them to anyone. </p><p></p><p>I fully intend to spend my summer deeply enmeshed in the Napoleonic Wars and the Royal Navy with Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin as my companions <em>de guerre</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 3596219, member: 20741"] I must shamefacedly admit that I am not "reading" as such as I am listening to books on my Ipod. The series that has captured my utter amazement is Patrick O'Brian's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O'Brian"]Master & Commander [/URL] series. The mode of writing is utterly thick and deliberately in the erudite mode of speech of the day in favor amongst the chattering classes. Throw in the naval terminology in which one is literally immersed and it is extremely tough slogging to read. I never could get by reading the first two chapters in [I]Master & Commander[/I] ever before - it just put me in such a fuddle I couldn't get by the prose and terminology. But on audio it was easier - difficult to be sure - but easier. After a few painful chapters I got over the hump and fell in love with this stuff. I [B]FINALLY[/B] get it. The prose of O'Brian is utterly authentic of the period - that's why he writes it the way he does. It's supposed to be immersive, and make it feel authentic and transportive and it does and it is. In my respectful opinion, Tom Clancy, naval historian that he was, [U]must [/U]have read O'Brian before he started writing his own novels. Because I tell you, Tom Clancy **RIPPED OFF** Patrick O'Brian. Completely and utterly - Tom Clancy is, in fact, a Patrick O'Brian pastiche, without the prose and substituting high tech of the 20th and 21st centuries for the high tech of the 18th Century - featured by O'Brian. Tom Clancy did not invent the techno thriller; Patrick O'Brian did. It just so happened that Patrick O'Brian's tech happened to be in the Age of Sail and used canon and roundshot, musket and ball, royals and mizzens. As for the audio books, they are *brilliantly* narrated and feel so amazingly **real** I cannot help but recommend them to anyone. I fully intend to spend my summer deeply enmeshed in the Napoleonic Wars and the Royal Navy with Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin as my companions [I]de guerre[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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