Review: Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
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By Mark Traphagen on June 1, 2009
This second book in the massive Aubrey/Maturin series is a lot more character-driven and a little less action-driven than the exciting debut, Master & Commander. I have a feeling O’Brian was setting up the balance between suspenseful historical warfare narrative and intriguing relationship dynamics.
In Post Captain, O’Brian channels Jane Austen, setting up a love quadrangle that almost brings our two inseparable friends to twenty paces with matched pistols. (Question: what happened to that duel? It just seemed to disappear.) We also learn much more about Stephen Maturin’s secret life, something only hinted at in book one.
More than anything else, Post Captain confirmed for me that I want to read this series all the way through.
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for
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