{"id":8138,"date":"2008-06-11T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2010-07-21T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T10:35:39","slug":"aubreymaturin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey\/Maturin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of Master and Commander<\/i><\/a> by the always insightful Joe Valdez.<\/p>\n

I was unaware of the background story of the filming of this movie, and Weir’s demands (what he would and would not do) … Marvelous stuff. He didn’t want to do the first in the series – because of too much exposition – he wanted to start in the middle, when Aubrey and Maturin were already friends. I think that was a terrific choice.<\/p>\n

I am now 3\/4 of the way through The Surgeon’s Mate<\/i>, the 7th book in the series. I cannot get enough. I am trying to slow myself down because I don’t want the entire series to end. I will be so sad when I come to the end.<\/p>\n

Interesting thing: I went home this weekend. My dad is now reading the series – he had only read Master & Commander<\/i> but now he’s on Desolation Island<\/i>, and it’s been so fun to talk with him about it. And my mother is reading Master & Commander<\/i> now (“so that I can talk about it with your dad”) … But anyway, we visited with dad and he told us that Barry and Joanne (old family friends – there has never been a time in my life when I did not know Barry) had stopped by and Joanne is such a fan of the books that she refuses to read the last two in the series!! She cannot bear the thought that after that, there will be no more books … so she is holding off on reading them … just so she knows, in her heart, that there will always be another Aubrey\/Maturin book to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Bravo, Patrick O’Brian! Sheesh!!<\/p>\n

Go read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review of Master and Commander by the always insightful Joe Valdez. I was unaware of the background story of the filming of this movie, and Weir’s demands (what he would and would not do) … Marvelous stuff. He didn’t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[737,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23837,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}