Post APVEv063IFeJzKk9j6 by gallimore@twit.social
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 (DIR) Post #APV5tR5T4aCzX0eJii by gallimore@twit.social
       2022-11-11T14:28:25Z
       
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       Since childhood I read, over and over, C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series.  I'll probably read them again, but it's like reading Alistair MacLean.  It's not necessarily a criticism but I contend that Hornblower is really World War II Royal Navy culture applied to the age of sail.  Forester did not seek nor apply the cultural and social history or anthropology found in Patrick O'Brian's work.
       
 (DIR) Post #APV5tRZbGYJN2SkNge by leo@twit.social
       2022-11-11T17:06:23Z
       
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       .@gallimore If you liked Hornblower you should try the superb Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_seriesVery much in the same spirit.
       
 (DIR) Post #APVEv063IFeJzKk9j6 by gallimore@twit.social
       2022-11-11T18:47:38Z
       
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       @leo I studied that era in grad school (Jefferson's presidency), after having read O'Brian's novels.  O'Brian's grasp of the Napoleonic Era was magnificent.  Even subtleties of language or colonial cultures in those novels are impressive.