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The Lansing book really is a classic. This is hardly comparable, but I'm rereading the Master and Commander series (Patrick O'Brian) and you just can't beat th
by Cupertino95014 5y ago
The Lansing book really is a classic.
This is hardly comparable, but I'm rereading the Master and Commander series (Patrick O'Brian) and you just can't beat that for adventure. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin go through the Napoleonic Wars together, traveling literally all over the world, and having adventures fully as exciting as Shackleton's, although most of them don't involve 18 months of hell. It was a movie starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.
O'Brian literally spent his whole life learning about that period. You can find an interview with him on YouTube. The thing I find incredible is: some people took him out sailing for real (I think one was Tom Perkins) and said that he wasn't really that great a sailor.
- jimbob45 5y agoThe Sharpe series is decent too and has an excellent accompanying TV series (of the same time period).
- Lio 5y agoI loved the film and must read the book. What I like most about the film is how great the French commander also is. He's absolutely no push over and as devious and clever as Jack Aubrey. I notice the same thing in great sporting events. A push over is fun but the best games, matches and races for me are where the opponents are evenly matched and really have to battle it out.
- Cupertino95014 5y ago> must read the book You're in luck; there are 20 of them! In the YouTube interview, O'Brian notes that he wished he'd started earlier in the War. At the end, it's 1815 and he's "running out of months."
- zabzonk 5y agoI will never understand why there has not been a sequel to that film - it's one of the best I've ever seen, and the ending begs for one.
- Cupertino95014 5y agoFrom what I've read, Crowe is dying to make a sequel, but Peter Weir feels "been there, done that." Too bad.