Saturday, May 24, 2003

Blue about Blue at the Mizzen

I finished the 20-book Aubrey/Maturin series. It's quite a literary achievement, although the series doesn't quite end as it should have and the last three of the books are really kind of stunning in their callousness towards some major characters. Otherwise, I agree decidedly with David Mamet in his elegy for Patrick O'Brian: there can be genius in genre books. Too often these days, writers forget that one of the main purposes of literature (of any art, really) is to Delight. POB never forgot that.

I hope the upcoming movie isn't too bad.

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