L'ultimo viaggio di Jack Aubrey

Read this book in 2009, and its the 21st volume of the wonderful "Aubrey/Maturin" series. Sadly this book is unfinished, due to the sad death of the author in 2000, and this is what's left of it before Patrick O'Brian died. It was certainly to become another wonderful seafaring tale, in which Aubrey, Leggi tutto

Well, I started this series last July. It has been enjoyable to read and I feel a sense of loss that I can't follow Jack and Stephen on any more adventures. More than the adventures, which were tame compared to many other books, the pleasant language and craftsmanship of the books are what made for

I shouldn't give this 5 Stars...but what the hell! Not a complete novel, but I like it because POB loved these characters and this blue world so much, wrote unto his death! Fair winds and following seas, Sir!

I knew that 21 is only a fragment of O'Brian's early working through the next Aubrey/Maturin story--and I could see from the appearance of the book itself that it is quite short--and so my expectations were set quite low. I looked for it to be only a last souvenir of a series that I have loved. It i Leggi tutto

This is the first Patrick O'Brian book I have read/listened too and it was the last one he wrote. It was a 3 disc CD. I didn't like the narrator. The book was incomplete, O'Brian only completed 63 pages before he died. There was too much conversation, and no action. Also I became confused when the C Leggi tutto

The most memorable aspect of this brief book is O'Brian dying in mid-sentence and the regret of everything coming to an abrupt end...