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.