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Horacio Hornblower was my first fictional love-displaced by Jack Aubrey. I am truly sorry to learn you are having issues with your eyesight. A close relative of mine is dealing with macular degeneration: I am learning so much about ways and means of coping with visual issues.
What I like best about the Aubrey/Maturin series (O'Brian) is the authenticity. I can really believe I'm with these people on a British Navy sailing ship during the Napoleonic Wars. In this way I find that well-done historical fiction does a lot of the same things for me that well done SF and fantasy does: the experience of otherness.
You can tell that O’Brian lived with one foot in the past: he knew that world and time probably better than his own
If reading is a current issue, try the audio books. Audible currently has the Patrick Tull narrations, which are my favourite, but most public libraries have the Simon Vance narration. Also excellent.
I've read the Hornblower books, the Alexander Kent Bolitho books, and various others. None equal the O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin books, IMHO.
Patrick Tull’s narration was brilliant: hands down the best
I stopped after Master and Commander as well. I'll probably give the series another try some day, but I just didn't get that interested in it at the time. Hornblower is a definite favorite, but I also really enjoyed Dudley Pope's Ramage series and the earlier books in Alexander Kent's Bolitho series.
Variety is the spice of life; haven’t run into the Ramage series. I am going to give a try as a relief from wading through a non-fiction on blockchain. By the way I am becoming a WWI fanatic: have you runs across any naval novels set during that time period?
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Horacio Hornblower was my first fictional love-displaced by Jack Aubrey. I am truly sorry to learn you are having issues with your eyesight. A close relative of mine is dealing with macular degeneration: I am learning so much about ways and means of coping with visual issues.
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What I like best about the Aubrey/Maturin series (O'Brian) is the authenticity. I can really believe I'm with these people on a British Navy sailing ship during the Napoleonic Wars. In this way I find that well-done historical fiction does a lot of the same things for me that well done SF and fantasy does: the experience of otherness.
You can tell that O’Brian lived with one foot in the past: he knew that world and time probably better than his own
If reading is a current issue, try the audio books. Audible currently has the Patrick Tull narrations, which are my favourite, but most public libraries have the Simon Vance narration. Also excellent. I've read the Hornblower books, the Alexander Kent Bolitho books, and various others. None equal the O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin books, IMHO.
Patrick Tull’s narration was brilliant: hands down the best
I stopped after Master and Commander as well. I'll probably give the series another try some day, but I just didn't get that interested in it at the time. Hornblower is a definite favorite, but I also really enjoyed Dudley Pope's Ramage series and the earlier books in Alexander Kent's Bolitho series.
Variety is the spice of life; haven’t run into the Ramage series. I am going to give a try as a relief from wading through a non-fiction on blockchain. By the way I am becoming a WWI fanatic: have you runs across any naval novels set during that time period?
