On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@thepaw.org> wrote:

On 6/23/2014 9:39 AM, Andrew Staples wrote:

For age of sail crew (and captain's) quarters, the film Master & Commander is probably the most accurate movie. Watch how they strip the captain's cabin as he prepares himself for battle. The books it was based, the Aubrey-Maturin series, are even better.

I'll have to take your word on it. I had one of the audiobooks and it was horribly boring.

If your audiobook had a reader that was a terrible voice actor (e.g. couldn't change their voice appreciably for the different characters), then I can see that as a possibility.

It might also have been abridged, particularly if it got published after the author's death. O'Brian's character and scene descriptions are highly evocative but also quite detailed. An abridgement probably would have cut out some of the best parts.

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