At 11:03 PM 1/1/00 -0600, Ned F. wrote:
>
>None of them compare to the -- what do I call it? --
sudden
>intuitive realization of reading a masterpiece as
Patrick O'Brian's
>"Master and Commander" gave me. But O'Brian operates
in another
>genre, heck, I'll say it, another level, than does
hardboiled
>literature.
>
As I
may have mentioned, I am a nut on literature from and set in
the 19th century, but I haven't quite succumbed to the
O'Brian fad. I enjoy the books, and I conceed that they don't
slavishly imitate the life of Lord Nelson or the Horatio
Hornblower stories, but I can't yet see the claim to
literature that their fans make. For my money I'll take
Hammett. Or Thackeray, for that matter.
James
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