I read all the POB Aubrey novels. I struggled through the first, but became
accustomed to POB's style and then found the rest of the books easy
(although some were dreadfully boring). I found that there were two types of
readers: those who hated the books and those who loved them. There is no way
to tell who will like them and those who won't. Nevertheless, when I had the
opportunity to visit HMS Victory a few years ago, the memories of POB's
description of Trafalgar were vivid. I felt that I was re-living those
events as I stood on deck and below where Nelson died. As for the movie, I
thought it was spectacular. I brought my wife who I did not think would like
a guy movie like that. She loved it and told me to buy the sequel tickets
early.

Everyone's taste is different. Thank the god of your choice.

Tom


"padeen" wrote in message
...
Klaus, your remarks about POB's writing "rambling on" brings Emperor
Joseph
II's famous observation, 'Too many notes, my dear Mozart' to mind.



"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:



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.