Re: My Dain Bramage is obviously worse than I thought.
- From: Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Aug 2008 21:53:46 GMT
In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:10 +0000 (UTC)
Anthony de Boer - USEnet <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zebee Johnstone posted thus:
Reading Forester after reading O'Brian is odd. Now it is too short,
not enough detail. A sort of black and white compared to rich colour.
Read either and Feintuch and Kent are very second rate.
Not that anybody stands up when compared with POB, but somewhere around
the Forester level would be Dudley Pope's _Ramage_ series. Good naval
stuff and character development, limited bits of wooden exposition, and
does stand up to a re-read.
I didn't mind the ones I read but I felt Ramage was a bit too good.
Another one who doesn't fail. I was never really worried about his
fate.
Admittedly Hornblower seldom did except in his own mind, but as they
are mostly told from his point of view that doesn't really strike
home.
Which is why the story of Retribution is so odd, seeing a very
competent man as others see him rather than as he sees himself.
PoB's genius was to make Aubrey hopeless by land. Even dealing with
naval officers he was bad news if it wasn't in naval terms.
Zebee
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