Fr.Bill's review
Patrick O'brian: A Life by Dean King (Goodreads author!)
Fr.Bill's review
rating:
bookshelves: non-fiction_general
recommended for: Fans of Aubrey-Maturin novels
rating:
bookshelves: non-fiction_general
recommended for: Fans of Aubrey-Maturin novels
This book will be disturbing to those who love the Aubrey-Maturin sea-faring novels by Patrick O'Brian. I knew O'Brian was a cranky soul. This portrait tries hard to avoid making him into a thoroughly discreditable cad, but it doesn't really succeed. O'Brian comes off as selfish, pathologically vindictive and cruel, the sort of man whose tires you'd happily slash and whose dog you'd gladly poison once you had his measure.
