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Dont forget Horatio...Hornblower...
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Excellent point, Glenn. I have some Hornblower novels on my wishlist :).
Squirrel...Should A&E decide to run the series again (and Ioan Gruffudd really brought the character to life) its a 'must see'...and I have heard that they did so well that some of the other stories are 'in the pipe' to start filming.Amazing the prodigeous number of books produced between O'Brien & Forester...
Funny that Bernard Cornwell couldnt resist having his 'Sharpe' character manage to be aboard a 74 just in time for Trafalgar...
And also funny that none of them could help but borrow from Lord Cochrane's life :)
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Short of buying them all at once, anyway.
My four O'Brians match in terms of the cover art, but "Master and Commander" is a head shorter than the other three....
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Of the next five, I have 4 with one HC cover, 4 with another & 1 with the crappy looking cheap HC cover. Multiple copies = attempt to get a matching set. However I arrange them, there's always one that doesn't match.
"However, after learning that Horatio (I bet he despised his parents for that name) was an excellent Whist player, I must reconsider. "Never in life! He was, of course, named after Lord Nelson!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Nelson
Who, sadly was once captured, gave his parole, spent years on a Spanish shore, but managed to be freed w/o exchange by his courageous rescue of 'lee-shored' sailors...
Who has dueled...
Who, sadly had his children die of smallpox while he was away at sea...
Who was a excellent Whist player, and survived on his earnings while shore-bound...
I have a few of the Hornblower audiobooks...
While Hornblower had no Maturin,
there were several excellant Hornblower tv-movies on A&E..only the one Aubrey-Maturin movie, with no plans for more :(