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1.The Truelove (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 15.) by: Patrick O'Brian October 09, 2001
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There is no denying the near photographic realism of the scenes and the dialog, and the reader practically feels the roll of the Surprise's deck underfoot. But how long does the author feel he can hold our attention with the admittedly amazing details of the hauling and re-rigging of topmasts? Patrick O'Brien is risking his legacy in these last stories. Here we are, aboard a man of war in His Britannic Majesty's fleet in the Pacific South Seas during the Napoleonic Wars, and not a single shot is fired. Perhaps O'Brien had exhausted his repertoire of scenarios for naval combat by the time he reached his fifteenth novel. The book does contain a passable love story, but due to the point-of-view constraint (everything is viewed through either Aubrey or Maturin), the romantic component of the ... Read More

2.The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey/Maturin) by: Patrick O'Brian January 22, 2002
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One of the best of the series, and its combination of stirring adventure, strong characters, and gentle good humor leaves me a bit ahoo that only one more remains in the series. Seventeenth in the series: The Commodore (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 17.)

3.Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin) by: Patrick O'Brian November 09, 1999
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Now truthfully the last completed Captain Jack novel (one remaining partial book was published after O'Brian's death) does not disappoint, but finishes as it should. Some things are wrapped up, but not all, as it should be, as life is not over for Aubrey, at the last made an Admiral of the blue flag (ordered to report to his own squadron of ships!) and Maturin, starting to think about his mortality but still looking forward to a positive response to his temporarily spurned marriage purposal to an old friend and fellow-widow. Powerful writing about a time and a place and a set of friends that O'Brian brought to life and made you feel and see and love. Twenty-first (and last--really!) in the series: 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin Series)

4.The Nutmeg of Consolation (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 14.) by: Patrick O'Brian August 07, 2001
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Not the best in the series. Seems like a placeholder to get to the next story. Not much happens. Fifteenth in the series: Truelove (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 15.)

5.The Thirteen Gun Salute by: Patrick O'Brian June 05, 2001
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Aubrey gets his Navy position back, Maturin helps negotiate a valuable treaty with Malaysia, but they end up the book shipwrecked on a formerly unknown reef in the South China Sea with their ship destroyed by a typhoon. Fourteenth in the series: The Nutmeg of Consolation

6.The Letter of Marque (Aubrey-Maturin) by: Patrick O'Brian March 06, 2001
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Very good entry into the Captain Aubrey/Steven Maturin series wherein Aubrey loses his position in the navy, but gains personal fortune and fame. Thirteenth in the series: The Thirteen-Gun Salute

7.Treason's Harbour by: Patrick O'Brian October 10, 2000
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Second straight entry in the series that didn't live up to O'Brian's standard. Not bad, just missing the spark of action, comedy, and comradery that makes the Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin pairing so much fun to read. But its a long series. Better is ahead. Tenth in the series: The Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin Series)

8.The Mauritius Command (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels (New York, N.Y.), 4.) by: Patrick O'Brian August 24, 1999
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Before even reading the book, I noticed that this is the first of the Aubrey/Matarin series that includes more than just a figure of a ship identifying the various kinds of sails, this book shows a map of "The Mauritius Campaign." And indeed, this book ranges farther afield from the narrow confines of the ship and spends more time developing the campaign, based as it is on a set of historical events that occurred at that time and place. Consequently less claustrophobic, this book moves faster and reads easier than the others, with less character development as we have come to know the characters already. Fifth in the series: Desolation Island

9.The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey-Maturin) by: Patrick O'Brian January 02, 2001
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Very good, tightly-scripted entry in the series. The last few, O'Brian has run out of historical events to fictionalize, and his plotting freed from the constraints of mapping to historical markers is really good. He has learned how to leave at least one unresolved conflict that keeps the reader on edge for the next entry, and those conflicts aren't always resolved for the good guys! Plus, he has learned how to quickly refresh the story from the previous entry in the readers mind at the beginning of the current one without long-winded exposition. One of the best of the series. The only drawback is the rapidly approaching end. Twelfth in the series: The Letter of Marque

10.Desolation Island by: Patrick O'Brian November 16, 1999
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Not the best of the series so far, despite great action and character development through the first half. The second half of the book is taken up by a series of potential disasters, from a chase by a more powerful enemy, to a near-fatal fight with the enemy during a hurricane blow, to hitting an iceberg, to a near-mutiny, to nearly sinking due to a leak from the iceberg hit, to nearly starting the War of 1812 with an American whaling ship whose sheltering bay they have unwittingly invaded to try to fix the ship enough to move on. All of these things were be truly potential dangers of any voyage, and there were probably voyages in the golden days of the British Navy as cursed as this, but in fiction it just seems implausible, and unrelentingly depressing, and increasingly unlikely that anyone would survive all these things on one voyage. Read More

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