Search Results for "Patrick O\'Brian": 34 results
O'Brian, Patrick: (01) Master and Commander (audio): I recently finished listening to Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, narrated by Patrick Tull, which was excellent. I'd read the first three of O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, and though I'd enjoyed them, I also didn't remember a thing about them...
O'Brian, Patrick: (02) Post Captain (audio): I started listening to the second of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books, Post Captain (narrated by Patrick Tull) quite a while ago, and stalled out somewhere in the first couple of hours. I don't precisely remember why now, but I suspect...
O'Brian, Patrick: (02) Post Captain (spoilers): And here are the SPOILERS for Post Captain. If you're here by a random link, here's the non-spoiler post....
O'Brian, Patrick: (03) H.M.S. Surprise (audio): I've heard the third of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, H.M.S. Surprise, cited as the point where the series really comes together. I don't know that I can speak to that; it seems smoother to me, in that its land-based plot...
O'Brian, Patrick: (03) H.M.S. Surprise (spoilers): SPOILERS for H.M.S. Surprise; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (04) The Mauritius Command (audio): The Mauritius Command is the fourth of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and somewhat reminscient of the first, in that it's as much concerned with a third party (there, James Dillion; here, Lord Clonfert) as with either of Jack or Stephen....
O'Brian, Patrick: (04) The Mauritius Command (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Mauritius Command; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (05) Desolation Island (audio): Desolation Island is the fifth of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels. It starts with a brief domestic interlude: Jack and Sophie are doing pretty well for the moment, but trouble looms on the horizon; and Stephen is not doing very well...
O'Brian, Patrick: (05) Desolation Island (spoilers): SPOILERS for Desolation Island; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (06) The Fortune of War (audio): Patrick O'Brian's sixth Aubrey-Maturin book, The Fortune of War, opens with something a little unusual for the series to date: explicit recaps of the prior book's events, in the form of Jack and Stephen making oral reports to others. This...
O'Brian, Patrick: (06) The Fortune of War (spoilers): Scattered SPOILER thoughts on The Fortune of War. Here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (07) The Surgeon's Mate (audio): Rather like the prior book, The Surgeon's Mate is very closely connected with its predecessor in the Aubrey-Maturin series, in this case The Fortune of War. It opens quite soon after that book, and part of the plot springs from...
O'Brian, Patrick: (07) The Surgeon's Mate (spoilers): This post contains SPOILERS for The Surgeon's Mate. Here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake. [Originally posted at my LiveJournal while this booklog was down.]...
O'Brian, Patrick: (08) The Ionian Mission (audio): The Ionian Mission, by Patrick O'Brian, appears to be (or open) a new phase in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Back from their long travels of Desolation Island, The Fortune of War, and The Surgeon's Mate, Jack and Stephen are sent to...
O'Brian, Patrick: (08) The Ionian Mission (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Ionian Mission; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (09) Treason's Harbor (audio): Patrick O'Brian's Treason's Harbor, the ninth book of the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series, appears to occupy a slightly complicated place in the development of the series. On one hand, I suspect it of being a duology with the prior book, The...
O'Brian, Patrick: (09) Treason's Harbor (spoilers): SPOILERS for Treason's Harbor; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (10) The Far Side of the World (audio): The novel The Far Side of the World is really very much different than the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. I greatly enjoyed the movie, but I think it was a poor decision to burden...
O'Brian, Patrick: (10) The Far Side of the World (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Far Side of the World; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (11) The Reverse of the Medal (audio): It's difficult to know how much to talk about books in a series. I knew the major plot point of the eleventh of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, The Reverse of the Medal, ahead of time, and while I appreciated seeing...
O'Brian, Patrick: (11) The Reverse of the Medal (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Reverse of the Medal; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (12) The Letter of Marque (audio): Patrick O'Brian's The Letter of Marque feels in some respects like a reset of the series, despite being the twelfth in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Principally this is an effect of the naval activity, which comes in tight, intense pieces of...
O'Brian, Patrick: (12) The Letter of Marque (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Letter of Marque; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (13) The Thirteen Gun Salute (audio): The Thirteen Gun Salute, the thirteenth book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, is not quite as stunning as The Letter of Marque, but its staggering cliffhanger of an ending will make up for quite a lot. You'll want the next...
O'Brian, Patrick: (13) The Thirteen Gun Salute (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Thirteen Gun Salute; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (14) The Nutmeg of Consolation (audio): Patrick O'Brian's The Nutmeg of Consolation was remarkably exciting and enjoyable until the ending, which annoyed me so much that I put off logging it for quite a while. It does resolve the prior book's staggering cliffhanger very satisfactorily, and...
O'Brian, Patrick: (14) The Nutmeg of Consolation (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Nutmeg of Consolation; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (15) The Truelove (audio): After a long hiatus, I resumed listening to the Aubrey-Maturin series with The Truelove. This was originally published as Clarissa Oakes, and with good reason: she is a Botany Bay convict smuggled aboard the Surprise by a midshipman, and the...
O'Brian, Patrick: (15) The Truelove (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Truelove (a.k.a. Clarissa Oakes); here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (16) The Wine-Dark Sea (audio): To my relief, Patrick O'Brian returns to form in The Wine-Dark Sea, which picks up almost immediately after the disappointing The Truelove. Lots of stuff happens, as part of a coherent story; that stuff arising from human action flows from...
O'Brian, Patrick: (16) The Wine-Dark Sea (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Wine-Dark Sea; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: (17) The Commodore (audio): The Commodore is the seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel and an enjoyable single-mission tale. Home from their circumnavigation, Aubrey is given command of a squadron with the public purpose of suppressing the slave trade and the private purpose of confounding France's planned...
O'Brian, Patrick: (17) The Commodore (spoilers): SPOILERS for The Commodore; here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....
O'Brian, Patrick: Golden Ocean, The: Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean is an earlier work than his Aubrey-Maturin series, both in terms of when it was written and when it's set. It tells the tale of Commodore Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in the 1740s, from...