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Title: The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Subtitle: Aubrey-Maturin, Book 13
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Narrator: Robert Hardy
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
As The Thirteen-Gun Salute opens, Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years. But Patrick O'Brian's resourcefulness is a sure warrant that things will not turn out as his readers or characters expect. Twists and turns, sub-plots, echoes from the past, these are the only certainties in this astonishing novel. Distant waters, exotic scenes, flora and fauna to satisfy Maturin's innocent curiosity as well as scope for his cloak and dagger work enrich its flow. The ending leaves the reader more than usually impatient for its successor.
© Patrick O'Brian; (P)1999 HarperCollins UK
Critic Reviews:
"As entertaining as its predecessors. O'Brian is a master of the narrative of action, but he has sustained interest through this long sequence of novels by expanding the genre to which they belong so that it can include much else besides." (London Review of Books)
Members Reviews:
Parts are familiar but there are new twists
Another story limited in calendar length with a lot of color for the reader. I think it's a good story, although parts are familiar to the readers of all of the previous books. To be sure, O'Brian inserts new twists and certainly leaves the reader with a spectacular cliff hanger at the end. As usual, the characters and the action are worth reading. I learned more about the Malaysian geopolitical situation of the era. There is little that happens at sea and there are long passages of the at sea portion of the book that, in reality, are meaningless and seem designed to lengthen the overall story. The treachery that occurs on land is worthy of any spy novel of any era. Overall, I'm glad I read it. I really like the characters, the plots and the storytelling devised by Patrick O'Brian in this series. I like it so much I'm reading the entire series for the second time. I recommend it.
Wonderful naval stories - a great, quick read.
O'Brian puts the reader directly in the times of a British Naval officer and the voyages and actions encountered. The battle scenes are exciting as are the vivid descriptions of weather encountered under sail (storms and calms). An aspect of the writing and story lines in the Aubrey/Maturin series I love is the placing of the characters in actual historic scenarios. Its been fun to look up the ships and battles. For non-sailors, there may be ships terms used that are not understood (e.g., cathead, cross-trees) and some descriptions of the positioning of ships prior to engaging in battle (e.g., gaining weather gage), which add to a sailors reading enjoyment, but for others just read through and enjoy the content! Plenty in these books to keep you turning pages!
O'Brian is one of the two or three best popular novelists of the 20th century
O'Brian is one of the two or three best popular novelists of the 20th century. The NY Times reviewer was correct to compare his writing favorably to Jane Austen (Tolkein would come in a distant second). O'Brian accurately recreated the time, the politics, the persons and the challenges presented by the Napoleanic wars.
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Title: The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Subtitle: Aubrey-Maturin, Book 13
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Narrator: Robert Hardy
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
As The Thirteen-Gun Salute opens, Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years. But Patrick O'Brian's resourcefulness is a sure warrant that things will not turn out as his readers or characters expect. Twists and turns, sub-plots, echoes from the past, these are the only certainties in this astonishing novel. Distant waters, exotic scenes, flora and fauna to satisfy Maturin's innocent curiosity as well as scope for his cloak and dagger work enrich its flow. The ending leaves the reader more than usually impatient for its successor.
© Patrick O'Brian; (P)1999 HarperCollins UK
Critic Reviews:
"As entertaining as its predecessors. O'Brian is a master of the narrative of action, but he has sustained interest through this long sequence of novels by expanding the genre to which they belong so that it can include much else besides." (London Review of Books)
Members Reviews:
Parts are familiar but there are new twists
Another story limited in calendar length with a lot of color for the reader. I think it's a good story, although parts are familiar to the readers of all of the previous books. To be sure, O'Brian inserts new twists and certainly leaves the reader with a spectacular cliff hanger at the end. As usual, the characters and the action are worth reading. I learned more about the Malaysian geopolitical situation of the era. There is little that happens at sea and there are long passages of the at sea portion of the book that, in reality, are meaningless and seem designed to lengthen the overall story. The treachery that occurs on land is worthy of any spy novel of any era. Overall, I'm glad I read it. I really like the characters, the plots and the storytelling devised by Patrick O'Brian in this series. I like it so much I'm reading the entire series for the second time. I recommend it.
Wonderful naval stories - a great, quick read.
O'Brian puts the reader directly in the times of a British Naval officer and the voyages and actions encountered. The battle scenes are exciting as are the vivid descriptions of weather encountered under sail (storms and calms). An aspect of the writing and story lines in the Aubrey/Maturin series I love is the placing of the characters in actual historic scenarios. Its been fun to look up the ships and battles. For non-sailors, there may be ships terms used that are not understood (e.g., cathead, cross-trees) and some descriptions of the positioning of ships prior to engaging in battle (e.g., gaining weather gage), which add to a sailors reading enjoyment, but for others just read through and enjoy the content! Plenty in these books to keep you turning pages!
O'Brian is one of the two or three best popular novelists of the 20th century
O'Brian is one of the two or three best popular novelists of the 20th century. The NY Times reviewer was correct to compare his writing favorably to Jane Austen (Tolkein would come in a distant second). O'Brian accurately recreated the time, the politics, the persons and the challenges presented by the Napoleanic wars.