"Mark Tiller" <mtiller at ntlworld.com> writes: > Okay, so who's Patrick O'Brian (says he preparing to be flamed) Very excellent author, the best-known (and most numerous) of which are historical novels set in the Napoleonic-era British navy. A number of people have reported that the first book, _Master and Commander_, is a poor introduction to the series, but I found it sucked me right in. Of course I was already a fan of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, and had some exposure to other authors in that sub-field (Alexander Kent, among others). For whatever reason, I didn't get into Dudley Pope until rather later, and David Donachie is new since then. But anyway. -- 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