Monday, June 20, 2016

O'Brian....................................




      My elder daughter should take some of the credit, or blame, for getting me to start reading again as if there might be a tomorrow, when I was ready to settle down on my deathbed and read nothing but the Bible.  She had all of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey novels in her house and urged me to try the first one, Master and Commander, with a  promise that it was even better than the movie.  She was like a drug dealer handing out a free sample.

-Clive James, Latest Readings

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