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Offline GtoRA2

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« Reply #45 on: June 30, 2006, 05:30:08 PM »
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did you realise that Master and Commander is based on a real person?

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.1597/changeNav/3533



 I did know that, but only because the companion book I bought talked about how much the main Char was based on him.
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« Reply #46 on: June 30, 2006, 07:10:04 PM »
I'm almost half way through the series and I can't put them down.  I don't know how anyone could have trouble getting through them.  I even find myself speaking two hundred year old phrases from time to time.

The companion book "A Sea Of Words" is essential.  I really opens up the books when you learn the naval terms.

I also recommend visiting the Rose if you’re ever near San Diego.  It's quite interesting how they set up a helm and navigational center below deck near the captain’s cabin.  The pro's could sail the ship below while the actors could be filmed on deck and not have to worry about the ship.  I was surprised at the size of the vessel though.  Looks much bigger onscreen.

O'Brian is a genius.  Twenty books are not near enough.
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« Reply #47 on: June 30, 2006, 07:22:41 PM »
Closing scene is my favorite.
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« Reply #48 on: June 30, 2006, 09:17:54 PM »
I didn't bother renting M&C, I bought it the day it hit the shelves.  One of my all time favorites.

IIRC, it scored pretty well with the History Channel's History vs Hollywood too.
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« Reply #49 on: June 30, 2006, 11:36:29 PM »
Well I truly enjoyed seeing this movie and now own a copy. To me its right up there as rewatch material in the same guys movie aspect as Top Gun, The Replacements and a few others. Yes I know the last two are cheesy but you know what those are movies that I just can't stop watching and enjoy each time I see them.
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« Reply #50 on: July 01, 2006, 12:34:39 AM »
Comparing M&C and Top Gun!!! Now, really...:huh

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« Reply #51 on: July 01, 2006, 05:51:36 PM »
One of the best books ever written, I believe, is two years before the mast. A classic sea story by U.S. writer Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast describes the author's voyage from 1834 to 1836 as a common seaman from Boston, Mass., around Cape Horn, to California and back. Dana's intention in writing was to show “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is” and to expose the abuses endured by his fellow sailors. Published in 1840.

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« Reply #52 on: July 02, 2006, 12:40:36 AM »
For those of you who love the age of sail, there's an MMO game supposed to be released next year set in the 1720 carribean - Pirates of the burning sea

http://burningsea.com

Looks to be promising if they can make it more AH on boats instead of world of warcraft on boats. Pretty graphics anyway.
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« Reply #53 on: July 02, 2006, 05:12:18 PM »
I've got all the Aubrey / Maturin novels - great reads if you can take the old style english writing and the technical sailing stuff.  You'll now your an official Lucky Jack Aubrey geek when you start getting the old english jokes.

Another GREAT series in the genre are the Alan Lewrie novels by Dewey Lambdin.  Start out with the Kings Coat and go from there... lots of action (both with Cannons and with the Capt's patented french cundums).

Hornblower series is also pretty good, but for a younger crowd.

If you want some other heavy duty period action (on land), try the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (sp).  A lot of action in those books, and they are a quick read.  Think it starts with Sharpe's Rifles, and there are a bunch of them.

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« Reply #54 on: August 25, 2006, 03:49:37 PM »
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I have been trying to get through the original "Master and Commander", but there is something about the way in which the guy writes that makes me loose interest.  He jumps around so much it is hard to keep track.


I started "Master and Commander" not long after Sandy started the thread. It was a good read but I noticed something very interesting about myself because of it.

I enjoyed the book enough that I checked out "The Hundred days" as a "book on tape" for a 12 hour road trip I was taking. It lasted about 15 minutes before I had to turn it off. All the mizzen this and bowswain that... looking back I realised that when things got a bit over my head with nautical terms I would "skip a bit, Brother." I had started to just gloss over the finer details of sailing and just stick with the plot as it advanced.

The second book "Post Captain" has been a bit tougher to get through since there is just too much Society and not enough fighting Napoleon :) None the less, I would recommend the series to you Sandy.

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« Reply #55 on: August 25, 2006, 03:51:22 PM »
Keep going the second one was slow but the rest rock.
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« Reply #56 on: August 25, 2006, 05:17:19 PM »
Patrick O'Brian is enjoyable.  Other great sailing books:

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory by Nathanial Philbrick

It's been many years but I enjoyed Voyage by Sterling Hayden (Jack D. Ripper and RPM's avatar).
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