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I am currently re-reading it again in preparation!
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) Huh... I read Lost City of Z, and had utterly forgotten the Author's name!
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(Quote) Exactly!
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Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian is an Aubrey/Maturin novel concerning a ship's crew surviving on the islands of Kerguelen in the far south of the Indian Ocean, and is riveting. His fictionalized book on the Wager affair, The Unknown Shore is g…
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I actually liked both Cheap and Bulkley the most. I felt both had very valid points, and their prideful antagonism created the rest of the story. Byron was playing Hamlet.
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Did the stories influence the Court Martial? Of course it did! Did it change the Court's opinion? Who knows? Any ship lost requires the Captain be Court Martialed. Without exception if the Captain is living. That was going to happen regardless. Did …
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I would entirely agree with Mr. Abbott here. There was wide latitude for interpretation and enforcement, and the Courts Martial used their discretion, tacitly agreeing with the justification.
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I literally grew up with Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat and Mr. Midshipman Hornblower on the bookcase built into my bed, and they were favorite reading for my early childhood; and I have read immense amounts of naval fiction, particularly Age of Sai…
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(Quote) No. it's derived from "fleet" meaning fast moving. Something which is 'fleeting' moves past very quickly. See also 'flit'.
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I read a couple Norton books when I was a teen, and that was it. Didn't make any particular impression on me, one way or the other. Never sought her out or avoided her. Other people sing her praises, so I welcome a chance to see if I missed somethin…
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(Quote) I didn't say it was a clever pun... :o
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That was a pun! :D
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Which world?
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I don't have a problem with award winning books just because they won awards, so while I may be in the minority, it's not one sided. I like Martha Wells, and the other two sound very interesting as well!
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Huh! I love Becky Chambers. I didn't remember you being so anti when we read Small Planet...
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(Quote) Ha! Interesting thought!
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(Quote) Agreed!
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(Quote) Generally I experience novels as imaginary films, which can get very visceral, but I would never ever conceive of going into a book and meeting a character. I guess that is what some people did in Star Trek TNG's holo rooms now that I think …
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(Quote) I couldn't wait! These stories always charm the pants off me! (Quote) I would think Fantasy has become synonymous with Tolkien for most people - certainly to the mass public. The fact that there was a fantasy genre before Tolkien utterly re…
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It also hurt that we all basically agreed. No differences in opinion means little discussion. There have been books we all liked that had little discussion as well.
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I haven't seen any mention of which source she is translating. There are several collections with some different stories, and different versions of the same story, and none of them is in any way definitive.
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So no one knows if the stories Diyab brought in were current folk tales, or stories he created himself from bits and bobs and concepts and ideas floating around the Levant. Fascinating! I always assumed he brought in other folk tales from different …
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(Quote) Not a whit to me...
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If the puns were toned down an order of magnitude or three I might. I liked a lot of things about it, but the forced humor was off-putting.
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I couldn't possibly pull off this mad mad world!
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I quite enjoyed the crazy world of Jasper Fforde to be honest! It was fun and over the top strange. That worked quite well for me.
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This was one of the things I really liked about the book. The alt history is interesting and odd, and I was quite taken with it.
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Same here. It would never have occurred to me, and I doubt it would be something I would ever want to do.
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Lord knows I love puns, but for some reason I don't care for them in books - a little too planned. A good pun should be off the cuff. I don't care for Pratchett at all for example, and it took three tries to read Hitchhiker.