Brad <holden at salome.uchicago.edu> writes: > >From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> > >And permit me to put in a special recommendation for the Aubrey/Maturin > >books of Patrick O'Brian, which are...well...just read them. The first one > >is called _Master and Commander_. > > I second this nomination. They are wonderful, and there are like > 18 of them so you can just keep reading and reading.... 20, in fact. They just read so well it seems like fewer :-). > I also picked up a great collection of incredibly dark short stories > by O'Brian called The Rendezvous and Other Stories. Little humor, > different subject matter, it is good to see an author you enjoy stretch > his legs, so to speak. I've read some of his other works, and they seem to me *very* different. I wouldn't have placed them as by the same author. I like the A/M books better, but his other writing is certainly good if you like that kind of thing. Some of the stories in The Rendezvous were really quite excellent. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info