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redfiona99) wrote2007-11-10 11:32 pm
redfiona99) wrote2007-11-10 11:32 pm
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Master and Commander
Just reviewed it at librarything.com
http://www.librarything.com/work/6621/details/23181695
What I don't go into is why I love the characters, because I could probably go on all week about it.
Aubrey I like because he is so utterly harmless. There's no mean bone in his body. Maturin on the other hand, I fell for him about the fourth line of page 54. He's proud as a peacock, and doesn't want to let anyone know quite how dire his straights are and just so plain to himself about it. He knows his faults.
And okay, I loved how into natural history he was.
And James Dillon. It's unfair how much we're made to like him, because he's another one that's proud as a pikestaff and sure he's right. But he's that in a different way to Maturin, and he's such a tragic figure. And when that bastard priest convinces him not tell, and you know it's only going to end badly from there out, and it does but with such gallantry. And you're sad for the man that Dillon could have been, he would have been a fine, brave Captain, and you're sad for Maturin that he's lost yet another friend, and it's all so heart braking.
I'm also angry on behalf of Pullings, and his lack of promotion, but who wouldn't be.
And that's the thing, these characters they're like Dumas and Herbert and because you're immersed in their world you're immersed in them.
I also couldn't help but play with the Unsuggestions and was amused by the top 10.
Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the bo by Anne Rice
Awakening the Buddha within : eight steps to enlightenment : Tibetan wisdom for the Western world by Lama Surya Das
Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The irresistible revolution : living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne
Thr3e by Ted Dekker
Charmed thirds : a novel by Megan McCafferty
Succulent wild woman : dancing with your wonder-full self! by Sark
More, now, again : a memoir of addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The book of lies, which is also falsely called Breaks : the wanderings of falsifications of the one thought of Frater Pe by Aleister Crowley
I am amused by the two I've bolded if only because I have read 2 of the Vampire chronicles and hated them (so I think it's a good unsuggestion) and because I do want to get round to reading some Crowley at some point.
http://www.librarything.com/work/6621/details/23181695
What I don't go into is why I love the characters, because I could probably go on all week about it.
Aubrey I like because he is so utterly harmless. There's no mean bone in his body. Maturin on the other hand, I fell for him about the fourth line of page 54. He's proud as a peacock, and doesn't want to let anyone know quite how dire his straights are and just so plain to himself about it. He knows his faults.
And okay, I loved how into natural history he was.
And James Dillon. It's unfair how much we're made to like him, because he's another one that's proud as a pikestaff and sure he's right. But he's that in a different way to Maturin, and he's such a tragic figure. And when that bastard priest convinces him not tell, and you know it's only going to end badly from there out, and it does but with such gallantry. And you're sad for the man that Dillon could have been, he would have been a fine, brave Captain, and you're sad for Maturin that he's lost yet another friend, and it's all so heart braking.
I'm also angry on behalf of Pullings, and his lack of promotion, but who wouldn't be.
And that's the thing, these characters they're like Dumas and Herbert and because you're immersed in their world you're immersed in them.
I also couldn't help but play with the Unsuggestions and was amused by the top 10.
Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the bo by Anne Rice
Awakening the Buddha within : eight steps to enlightenment : Tibetan wisdom for the Western world by Lama Surya Das
Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The irresistible revolution : living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne
Thr3e by Ted Dekker
Charmed thirds : a novel by Megan McCafferty
Succulent wild woman : dancing with your wonder-full self! by Sark
More, now, again : a memoir of addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The book of lies, which is also falsely called Breaks : the wanderings of falsifications of the one thought of Frater Pe by Aleister Crowley
I am amused by the two I've bolded if only because I have read 2 of the Vampire chronicles and hated them (so I think it's a good unsuggestion) and because I do want to get round to reading some Crowley at some point.