false 77425 37 2366490 1978 Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin Book 5) total:1163|5:523|4:471|3:161|2:6|1:2| 1163 4996 1421 67 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 1 false Tue Jul 21 08:56:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 18:39:07 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:56:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 2 true Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Jan 26 08:22:50 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 08:22:55 -0800 2008
"An enormous, momentary turmoil of black hull and white water, flying spars, rigging that streamed wild for a second, and then nothing at all but the great hill of green-grey with f...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 1 false Mon Oct 27 16:59:52 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 17:07:03 -0700 2008 Desolation Island, written by Patrick O’Brian, is the story of the Leopard, an English ship sailing with a hull full of murderers to Australia. As the voyage continues on the crew begins to get sick and has to make an emergency stop on the way to Australia. As the boat continues on it becomes pe...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 06:55:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 07:26:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 0 true Tue May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Dec 22 21:04:36 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 21:06:15 -0800 2008
And it was lik...more...]]> 902653 0006499244 9780006499244 46 6 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179317816m/902653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902653.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:53:40 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:59:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 1 false Fri Feb 15 12:16:54 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 12:17:24 -0800 2008 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Sun Dec 06 06:34:52 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 06:39:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 true Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 20:38:12 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 20:51:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Mar 19 12:15:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:40:46 -0700 2009
That Patrick O'Brian chose to place his characters on the sea in the not so distant past just raised the hurdle I had to leap to get to know this wonderful author.

I had never been enamored with sea stories, didn't much care for European history, ...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 02:50:35 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 19 16:22:03 -0700 2009
This is one of my favorites, a laughable thing for me to say since they all give me immense pleasure, even now on the third go round. I am reading them again so I can review each with perhaps a bit fresher eyes.

Th...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 0 true Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 07:57:58 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 19:06:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Mar 13 23:38:47 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 17 12:26:48 -0800 2008 4 epic installment of the adventures of Aubrey and Maturin. With few sentences, O'Brian lets us infer a tragic story and a driving hatred that...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Sun Jun 14 12:58:49 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 13:01:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 0 false Mon Jul 20 12:08:23 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:08:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:16:45 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:22:40 -0700 2009
Either the prose has improved or I am better able to appreciate it, because there were some very beautiful passages.

And the chase scene ...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Sun Mar 22 15:22:39 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 17:44:12 -0700 2009
After two months of hard-SF, that's how Desolation Island struck me. Patrick O'Brian is an amazing writ...more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 3 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 23:01:07 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 19:54:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 04:29:27 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 04:31:16 -0800 2008
]]> 77425 039330812X 9780393308129 1074 54 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77425.Desolation_Island 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 19:49:17 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 19:55:50 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2812850