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    <body><![CDATA[Both my oldest daughter and her husband are fans of the Hornblower series, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the A &amp; E movie productions that I've seen of the Hornblower corpus; so I was motivated to read the books, and decided to begin at the beginning of Hornblower's career, with this novel.  (My only p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42029206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Hell!&quot; said Hornblower, actually stamping his feet on the upper gangway in his anger. &quot;Hell <strong>and</strong> damnation!&quot;</em><br/><br/>C. S. Forester's <em>Mr. Midshipman Hornblower</em> (1950) finds himself all too often frustrated in a &quot;savage, merciless world,&quot; where he is &quot;very much a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35863997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't the first of the Hornblower novels to be written, but chronologically it comes first in the series of novels covering his life. For someone who is just coming to the series, this mightn't be the best place to start.<br/><br/>Although you are introduced to Hornblower as a nervous young ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1674012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Hornblower books by C. S. Forester are among the iconic novels of the English language, and with good reason in my openion. I almost gave this a 4 star rating (because of my &quot;stingy&quot; with the 5 star ratings rile. After all 5 is the best you can give...how many can there be? But...)but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78651060">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not being a big fan of historical fiction, I wasn't sure I would like a book about sailing during the Napoleonic Wars. Turns out, though, that I absolutely loved this book. It's the first in the Hornblower series and it's a great introduction to the character of Horatio Hornblower. The book is made ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42156173">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Forester's opening tale of the fallible yet heroic Hornblower is so fun, funny and tragic, a reader shouldn't put it down for fear of losing it overboard. The young, awkward Midshipman is always at the right place at the wrong time and survives by relying on his training (and commonsense)to emerge u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67895642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45277595">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book tremendously.  The adventures contained within are well-told, and full of glorious 18th-century British naval detail to the point of requiring a nearby dictionary.  I love the young H. Hornblower character who, though he will doubtless change and mature in subsequent books, has a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45277595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57399073">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can honestly say that this is the first time I've preferred a movie or television version of a story to the original book version.  Forester does a wonderful job of conveying Hornblower as a conflicted young seaman, but my lack of knowledge concerning basic nautical terms was quite frustrating thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57399073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48824362">
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I had read this series earlier in my life, but no.  Not sure why I picked them up, except I've liked the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8730.Naomi_Novik" title="Naomi Novik">Naomi Novik</a> version of the Napoleonic wars and thought I'd try them without dragons.  I find the details about ships and sailing to be tiresome (which is why I've never enjoyed the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5600.Patrick_O_Brian" title="Patrick O'Brian">Patrick O'Brian</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48824362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Hornblower books. This was the first one of many for my collection, and it discribes how Horatio ended up at sea, and how he made his mark. I like Horatio, he is an honest man, where men aren't always honest, on board a tightly cramped merchant marine ship. There is plenty of adventure an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73170261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read and re-read the O'Brian canon, I started on The Hornblower books to continue to feed my naval fiction habit.  As I understand it, Forester actually wrote many of these books as serial short stories and the books are compilations.<br/><br/>I had a hard time enjoying the first two-thirds...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40990643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may have liked this more than it deserved because I read it around the birth of our third child (Katya is two days old as I write this), but whatever the reason, I really had a good time with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84748.Mr_Midshipman_Hornblower_Book_1_of_the_Hornblower_Saga_" title="Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Book 1 of the Hornblower Saga) by C.S. Forester">Mr. Midshipman Hornblower</a>.<br/><br/>Better than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12542.Bernard_Cornwell" title="Bernard Cornwell">Cornwell</a>'s Richard Sharpe books, but not as good as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5600.Patrick_O_Brian" title="Patrick O'Brian">Patrick O'Brian</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35573244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally reading this story I understand why they have had such appeal. This is really a series of short stories each with a moral set amidst a well crafted action adventure. HH has doubts, real problems and exaggerated hesitancies but in the press of need he finds the adrenaline rush both addictive ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28753246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have all eleven books in this paperback edition, which features my favorite artwork of any of the paperback editions.<br/><br/>I recorded all of C.S. Forester's Hornblower books in 50-55 minute episodes for Golden Hours, my local radio service for blind and reading-impaired listeners. Too bad I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18323423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Hornblower books are a series that chronicles the life<br/>of the fictional English naval hero Horation Hornblower.<br/>C.S. Forester began the series in the turbulent mid-career<br/>of his protagonist. Later, when he realized that he had<br/>created something bigger than himself, he went ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5882340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a historical fiction novel, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower is a fascinating introduction into a life of a young sailor in the British Navy of old.  I learned much about the terminology and language of the art of sailing during that time period.  <br/><br/>The book brought the reader through many eng...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3438859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled onto the A&amp;E movies and started them out of order but, I still found myself intrigued by the characters enough to try out the books.  I am amazed at how much I enjoyed a story completely devoid of a female character or influence.  I found Horatio to be a very compelling character.  I imme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61761729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every once in a while I like to read a classic - I wanted to read this series after seeing the A &amp; E mini series.  This 1st book in the series is several short stories about Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen year old nervous English naval hero.  This book takes him through the French Revolution, and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71801814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kirstin gave me this one for Christmas, and I finally got around to reading it!  (Well, I guess April isn't &quot;finally,&quot; it just seems like it's been a while.)  I enjoyed it; it's not really my usual thing, so it was tough getting going.  I'm totally unfamiliar with the historical setting, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41026526">more...</a>]]></body>
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