C.S. Forester’s The Good Shepherd has been made into a Tom Hanks movie that’s coming out eventually – remember when you could see those in theaters? – and it’s also under a buck on Amazon right at this moment. I figure that, combined with the fact that the guy wrote the Hornblower novels, was worth taking a chance. And if it wasn’t? Hey, well, I’m out a buck.
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Ooh. Pretty new site, with pretty, old ships.
It’s called Age of Sail, and it looks like a historical blog discussing precisely that.
I came into Age of Sail fiction from the science fiction end of it, actually: reading S.M. Stirling and David Weber
got me reading Patrick O’Brian
and C.S Forester
(I’m currently halfway through A&E’s Horatio Hornblower
series, and enjoying it muchly). And then, of course, there’s George MacDonald Fraser’s The Pyrates
, which is required reading for anybody who loves old Hollywood swashbucklers (and who doesn’t). So I guess I’m explaining why this is going on the blogroll…
Moe Lane
PS: OK, one last one: Naomi Novik. For all your “Napoleonic warfare novels with dragons added; only, and this is really important to note, adding the dragons doesn’t make the whole thing suck horribly, or indeed at all” needs.