http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/05/obrian_golden.php Comments on O'Brian, Patrick: Golden Ocean, The en Copyright 2008 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:57 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Trent wrote on May 31, 2006 at 1:39 PM: <p>I found both of O'Brian's A-M precursor novels to suffer too much from comparison to his later masterwork, unfortunately. Without the comparison to suffer by, they might have been perfectly inoffensive, enjoyable little one-offs....</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/05/obrian_golden.php#c5434 Kate wrote on May 31, 2006 at 2:50 PM: <p>Trent: I forgot to mention that _The Unknown Shore_ is a related but apparently much darker book. I am not terribly interested in reading that one.</p> <p>Yes, it does suffer in comparison, but then I'd never have read it without the comparison, and it served fine to distract me during a cranky time.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/05/obrian_golden.php#c5435