Master and Commander: Far side of the world (2003)

IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I read the first book and I wondered about delving further into the series; the second book however doesn't sound anything like what I would have expected

During the brief Peace of Amiens, Aubrey and Maturin live in a country house, and during their time there meet women with whom they fall in love. The mores of courtship restrict both men as to making a proposal of marriage. Then their lives are turned upside down when Aubrey loses his money due to decisions of the prize court and a dishonest prize-agent. To avoid seizure for debt, they proceed through France to Maturin's property in Spain. When the war begins afresh, Aubrey has a command aboard HMS Polychrest, seeing action while gaining fewer prizes yet succeeding in his military goals. He gains his promotion and is captain of the frigate HMS Lively while its captain is ashore. The emotions of his love life interfere with his ways at sea, showing him sharply different in his decisiveness at sea compared to his clumsiness on land.
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And as well as not being what I expected, I have to say that that brief summary does not appeal to me that much. Although maybe that's foolish prejudice, presumably he will write in the same style and strive to generate tensions from personal relations as well as politics, action and so on in the same way, with positive reviews indicating that many thought he pulled that off reasonably well.

Then again there is no chance that I will read all twenty novels, in fact while I will quite possibly read a few more I doubt I'm really going to dig deeply into the whole thing. That being the case, do I need to read in order or shall I just randomly read those that appeal? If I do the latter will I be confused or do they near enough stand alone?

Anyone who has read a few, especially the second, help me out here.
 
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version

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I watched it again last night,

Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly!?
Want to call that raggedy-arse Napoleon your king!?
 
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One thing I noticed was that there are lots of characters amongst the crew and you feel you get to know them, but I've seen it three or four times and I still have no idea what any of them are called beyond Aubrey, Maturin and Pullings.
 
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catalog

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version said:
One thing I noticed was that there are lots of characters amongst the crew and you feel you get to know them, but I've seen it three or four times and I still have no idea what any of them are called beyond Aubrey, Maturin and Pullings.
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I like the little lad, Mr something or other, I love that bit where they are on the island collecting specimens and they've got the guy carrying 10 baskets that they then have to chuck
 
luka

luka

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The way Russel Crowe gets his mouth full of clunky dialogue and his accent slips into a different register

'And I don't bloody mind how much bloody grist to the mill I have to churn' he starts sounding like Mr Tea talking about Brexit
 
luka

luka

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They recruited a load of extras from Poland because that's where they found people who looked like they are from the 18th century lol
 
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version

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I know it's not really supposed to be funny, but the bit where Maturin has to perform his own surgery and Aubrey looks like he's about to be sick, dripping with sweat and barely able to watch is funny.
 
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catalog

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It's a throwback film really, like Bridge on the river kwai, shawshank redemption. Lads in trouble, getting out.
 
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