Customer Review: Because each book in the series doesn't actually finish until the first few chapters of the next book, this does a fairly good job at closing off Blue at the Mizzen. I bought it just to get closure on the series. The book is thin, and the fact that there's also handwritten copy for each printed... more info
Customer Review: StoneHeart I listened to the audio book. Although I did not think the narrator was the best choice, it didn't seem to make that much of a difference in the story. There was a great deal of detail that I normally don't care for, but it works for this story. There wasn't a great deal of dialog to help... more info
Customer Review: Book Two of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series finds Jack and Stephen ashore and shipless during the Peace of Amiens. Worse, when war between England and Nepoleon resumes, our two heros find themselves in the most unenviable of places: France, where a pennyless Jack Aubrey is hiding from his... more info
Customer Review: I have read all the 20 books 2.5 times. Unusual for a woman. A slight plagiarism of Hornblower series but so much better and overall a totally different story: the language is beautiful, the characters, with few exceptions, exceptionally varied, distinctive personalities and the breath of the... more info
Customer Review: Patrick O'Brian's "Blue at the Mizzen" is the twentieth and final book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. The Aubrey-Maturin books are quite simply the best fiction I've ever read. I enjoy them so much that I find it difficult to read any other fiction now. Although there are twenty... more info
Customer Review: I would definetely recommend this book and the entire Aubrey/Maturin series. It is very well written and keeps you eagerly reading even if your not that into historical navy type stuff.
Customer Review: The item description says that it is read by Robert Hardy. The version I purchased was narrated by Simon Vance, the least desirable of the O'Brian narrators. Seller blames Amazon.
Customer Review: I've read 4 of this series and had been impressed w/ what I had assumed to be accurate historical detail. I now have doubts. O'Brian's account of the USS Chesapeake- HMS Shannon engagement is quite inconsistent with all other analyses that I've read, in terms of USS Chesapeake's "ship-handling" and... more info
