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Title: The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian, Roger Rees, Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0-671-57501-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.63 (19 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Painfully disappointing
Comment: I am an absolute devotee of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. I have read all of them at least three times each. But "The Yellow Admiral" appalled me. I was certain within fifty pages that it had been written by someone else who had picked up all of O'brian's turns of phrase, but none of his wit or heart. I wrote an indignant letter to the publisher demanding my money back, but then never sent it. It's embarrassing to admit how passionately I feel about this - I mean, it's only a book, right? But this book was so poorly done it would have been funny had I not been so eagerly awaiting it. Diana's pronouncements on sex! and Sophie's transformation to a shrew! Sir Joseph's tortured explanations re: Stephen's character to a clerk! I would have been far happier had it never been published - it was like watching close friends disintegrate before my eyes.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rivetting, yet the "happy ending" must come next book
Comment: In typical O'Brian fashion, the current state of our heroes is reversed in this book. Here we find Aubrey on the downgrade, while Maturin is repairing the damage done him in the previous episode. Certainly a rivetting story that is a pleasure to read, yet the real "happy ending" is left 'til the next installment (we hope!) For those looking solely for naval action, this book is not the best of series. Most of the plot involves Aubrey's difficulties on land and admiralty politics. Personally, I couldn't put it down and am yearning for the next installment
Rating: 5
Summary: Political intrigue at home and on duty beset Aubrey
Comment: "The Yellow Admiral", the 18th novel in Patrick O'Brian's critically acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin saga, is one of those which are most closely akin to Jane Austen's riveting, elegant descriptions of British aristocratic society around the time of the Napoleonic wars. Here Aubrey must contend with a long-forgotten extramarital scandal which threatens his marriage to Sophie and a senior admiral who is displeased by Aubrey's opposition to enclosing lands with fences by the admiral's nephew, a wealthier landowner and neighbor of Aubrey's. Aubrey serves under the latter's command as his beloved Bellona joins the blockade fleet off the Normandy coast. Worst of all, with peace on the horizon as Napoleon suffers one crushing defeat after another on land, Aubrey fears that he will be "yellowed", promoted to admiral without command of a squadron or fleet. Meanwhile Maturin returns from a secret mission on the continent, bearing news which may restore his old friend's military fortunes. And, at the very end, not only is Aubrey reconciled to Sophie, but he receives news of Napoleon's escape from the Italian island of Elba, and reinstatement of his temporary rank of commodore, in command of a small frigate squadron near Gibraltar.
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Title: Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308634 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308219 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308200 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308138 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308626 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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