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Re: (Non-LEGO) Recommendation
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:14:40 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Jeff Johnston writes:
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> > In lugnet.pirates, Ronan Webb writes:
> > > Certainly the early books weren't overly technical or O'Brian would not have
> > > sold many more.
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> > Just the first book. The *constant* refrain from people who see me lugging
> > around an Aubrey/Maturin novel is, "Does it get better after the first one?"
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> Really? I loved the first one, thought the beginning of the second was rather
> slow,
> but now that he's on his bizarre double-bowed ship, things are picking up again.
I think he learned after the first not to go quite so overboard on pages and
pages of nautical jargon explanation. But then again, once you go through
it, you are better prepared for the succeeding novels. And yes, I have
gotten that comment above at least a half a dozen times.
The second novel is slow at the start, but again, this is developing
characters and situations that are going to last the entire series.
If you are happy with the first two books, you should be delighted with the
next three. Desolation Island is perhaps my favorite so far.
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> The technical terminology didn't bothe rme at all...but it did cause me to pick
> up a
> copy of the _Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea_.
Mostly they (the technical lectures) were boring. He gets better about
slipping the stuff into the story smoothly. Personally, I like Stephen
Biesty's Cross-sections Man of War book.
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> Even without that, though, Maturin is a complete 'lubber and often has to have
> nautical things explained to him during the course of the book, so it's possible
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> to follow the important stuff.
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> J
And remains a steadfast clueless lubber (and convenient expository device).
:-)
Bruce
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