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[flemmings]

Two pages into Lieutenant Hornblower (ancient Pan copy, price 35p) and it's obvious that O'Brian is the better writer, 'mud and stars differential' type. Id est, two pages of tell don't show and appalling run-on sentences. He thought this but then he thought this but then a smile from those frank brown eyes made him think this. Cover blurb: What a tremendously good writer he is! Err- no.

There's often a reason why second hand books are second hand.

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[doire]

I was very fond of the Hornblower stories in my teens. That may say it all.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

As teenage reading it certainly outclasses Stephanie Meyer, but I was under the impression it was some kind of locus classicus of British popular lit. Maybe the series improves in later volumes?

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember reading some waaaaaaay back but ... cannot recall any of it at all. but that last bit .... ahahahaha I'm surprised he didn't put 'orbs' or summat like that. (