Reading: Post Captain

[white_hart]

I read Patrick O'Brien's Master and Commander some years ago, and while I enjoyed it enough to seek out secondhand copies of the next few in the series, I didn't recall much about it except that the sailing bits were very detailed, possibly too detailed from the point of view of a confirmed landlubber like me. Still, I decided to give the next in the series a try this week, and though the sailing and action remain a bit of a blur to me I loved the relationship between the two central characters, and felt that Stephen Maturin's character in particular had developed interestingly since the first book, becoming considerably more complicated than I remembered. There's more social comedy than there is seafaring, and all in all I found it very enjoyable.

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

The social comedy is wonderful, and the relationship was what made me read through the entire series in pretty much one go.

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I was just contemplating rereading this very book, because I enjoyed it so much the first time, before finally moving on to the next.