I really wasn't expecting it to be so funny, so sly, and just so damn good.
That's it exactly. Even with so many people praising it I was a little wary, expected long historical and longer nautical expositions, all very grave & serious, but then I looked at the first few pages at amazon.com and when it didn't start on a ship, or with a ship, but with a string quartet and Aubrey and Maturin's meeting there, I was intrigued, but it still surprised me. I didn't expect to be quite so charmed by it...
(I'm 160 pages into Post Captain and it does indeed seem a little tighter, more plot driven.)
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Date: 2004-10-05 08:00 pm (UTC)That's it exactly. Even with so many people praising it I was a little wary, expected long historical and longer nautical expositions, all very grave & serious, but then I looked at the first few pages at amazon.com and when it didn't start on a ship, or with a ship, but with a string quartet and Aubrey and Maturin's meeting there, I was intrigued, but it still surprised me. I didn't expect to be quite so charmed by it...
(I'm 160 pages into Post Captain and it does indeed seem a little tighter, more plot driven.)