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Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander is 20 books, and I've read them all twice. There's an art there, and you can't reduce it to a formula. Total immersion in
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander is 20 books, and I've read them all twice. There's an art there, and you can't reduce it to a formula. Total immersion in a period is definitely a part of it; you can actually find an interview with him on YouTube. He spent his entire life learning about it.
Amazingly, I've read that he actually wasn't that good a sailor, in real life.
- pklausler 3y agoI very much enjoyed the fun that O'Brian had in The Far Side Of The World with the unavoidable problem of plot armor with which authors of book series with continuing characters must deal.
- AlbertCory 3y agoI think he says in his interview that he came to wish he'd spent more time on the early years of the wars. Because he was running out of war by the end.