"You seem to be in an evil humour," said Neuville.
"Midshipman Hornblower, of His Britannic Majesty's ship Indefatigable," growled Hornblower. "I am Captain Neuville, of this privateer. "Welcome, sir, to the Pique," he said in French. Forester was a witty man and some of the lines in the movies are taken straight from the pages of the books.Ī handsome young man in a plum-coloured coat with a lace stock greeted Hornblower when he stepped on the deck. I found myself wanting to quote entire pages. And, it is every bit as wonderful as I'd imagined and then some. Then, I had to wait for its owner to dig out from under the snow because he was stuck at home (in Washington, D.C.) during the big blizzard and the book was at his office.įinally, I got my hands on the book and read it. I got online and found a copy was available at PaperbackSwap. He gradually located most of the books - 8 out of 9 of them - but never did manage to find the first in the series (by order of Hornblower's experience, not the order in which they were written, as they weren't written from Midshipman to Admiral in timeline order). We had a copy, but who knew where it had disappeared to? My husband, as I've mentioned before, is Mr. Meanwhile, having discovered that I don't just find the stories tolerable but I'm, in fact, wild about the adventure, I went in search of Mr. This is funny because my husband always thought they'd be far too violent for my taste.Īfter we'd watched the first 4 movies, I went in search of the next 4. Hornblower has an awesome cast and the movies are beautiful, adventurous, impressively acted. seriously, the movies would have had my approval if you'd just held up a photo of those guys in costume. Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Jamie Bamber, Paul McGann. He's seen them all and read most of the books. I had only seen bits and pieces of the series, in the past, when my husband watched them. We make huge mountains of clean laundry and then spend an evening folding and watching a movie. We watched them on laundry-folding nights. My husband and I got a boxed set of "adventure movies" by the A & E network for Christmas and the first 4 of the Hornblower movies (there are 8) were included in that set. A little background as to why I read this book.
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