@Kirkman Joshua Corey, who blogs the Aubrey-Maturin Review, has a footnote in a separate post about "Bartleby the Scrivener" on Davies's devotion to Jack. Since Jack saved Davies from drowning, Jack providing for him is an "obscure justice", even if Davies could be a handful. https://joshuacorey.substack.com/p/bartleby-boys?utm_source=publication-search#footnote-anchor-1-148123935
Give me joy, shipmates! The packet came in!
My previous circumnavigations have all been on audiobooks.
@annathepiper Yes, definitely the world-building feels a part of lots of good Star Trek writing.
An older essay on Reactor covers this ground too: https://reactormag.com/not-a-moment-to-be-lost-patrick-obrians-aubrey-maturin-series/
On my way to MilPhil, the 2001 Worldcon in Philadelphia, I was re-reading The Fortune of War, Book 5 of Patrick O’Brian’s twenty volume Aubrey-Maturin series. On the bus in Newark taking me to the connecting plane, I saw a stranger reading Book 18, The Commodore. “Are you going to Worldcon?” I asked. She was. […]
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@electrafish Like the time O'Brian forgot Babbington's first name and had Fanny Harte call him Charles instead of William. Then he has Stephen call her out on it in a later book!
I’m feeling the need for some really good buddy stories on the level of the Aubrey–Maturin series. Yes, of course, I’m going to return to the Aubrey Maturin series first. But after I finish it, what do you recommend?
“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”
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