Gogarty wrote:
| Indeed, I read somewhere that he was having
| them ghost-written .....

Is there any EVIDENCE of this?

Vic

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"Klaus" wrote in message
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| That might explain why I found O'Brian the only author I did not finish
| reading a book of. Actually, I read 1 1/2 of his novels. Forgot which ones
| they were by now. Struggled through the first one but gave up halfway
| through the second.
| I like reading books with this nautical theme. Read any I can get hold
off.
| But the utterly boring writing style of O'Brian is hard to stomach. Why
does
| he have to write sentences so endlessly long? It kills any action that
might
| be in there. It's very hard to follow what he's rambling on about. Its a
| very boring style of writing.
| Too bad, no more O'Brian novels for me.
|
| Klaus
|
| Gogarty wrote:
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| As for O'Brain's novels, they are not better than CS Forester's
| Hornblower series but different. In a way, more real-life. Aubrey is a
| much more flawed human being than is Hornblower and thus a much more
real
| character. But I do feel that O'Brian ran badly out f steam on the last
| tyhree or so in the series. Indeed, I read somewhere that he was having
| them ghost-written by that time. They had certainlky become formulaic.
|