UNLOCKED Left on Read - Master and Commander 

Hi, it's me, I'm one of the 3 who has neither read the book nor seen the movie

as an American I'm super good at accents. irish and cat a lin, you said? "TOP O' THU MORNIN' GUVNA!"

yes, more of this kind of thing! Edit: Riley, we all know that it is wise not to go... Entirely Japanese

The thing about the Aunbrey/Maturin novels is that they have far more in common with Dickens and Jane Austen than they do with CS Forester. They are novels about people, people who happen to practice the profession of naval officer in the time of Napoleon, but their occupation is actually secondary to how they as people exist in their world. The best parts of the novels are when characters navigate between their separate spheres, whether from naval to civilian life, or from lower deck to officer country, from captain to POW... The characters are so real, so singular, and so well portrayed that the action adventure elements almost fade into the background despite being among the best such stories ever written. And as November says, the prose is simply magical. There are very few people who can write this well, this beautifully, this lovingly in any part of the world of literature. It makes me so happy to see that two people I admire turn out to be such fans of something I love. Parasociality be damned, now there is truly something we have in common, and it's even something I love.

Why can't I find anyone with this level of addiction to Ursula K Le Guin novels...

Riley's dedication to the bit of pretending to be on a windy boat is 👌

Last year I had a conversation on youtube with author Nicola Griffith - not the worst of stylists herself - and she named Patrick O'Brian as her favourite historical fiction writer, using almost the same words as November.

Catalan accent with Irish syntax is the way to go I think.

And thus November becomes Master pilled.

Read Stephen R. Donaldson. Lord Foul's Bane, The Ill Earth Wars, The Power That Preserves, The Mirror of Her Dreams, and A Man Rides Through. Maybe keep a dictionary handy 😉 Read The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, also his Mars trilogy. I know that's 9 books from 2 people, I just don't have much fiction, only 5%. And most made isn't worth recommending. I guess Caleb Carr and Katherine Kerr would be second teir. Don't forget that gem by Lucius Apuleius. And Albert Camus, The Plague.

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