De volta ao familiar mundo de pressão interna de Hornblower, eis outro volume cheio de aventura e intriga mas imensas páginas inúteis a quem não interessa a estratégia técnica naval. Para quem se interessa, a não perder.É um livro mais pequeno do que o costume no ramo dos calhamaços de tragicoméd...
This review is for the complete 11-book series of THE HORNBLOWER SAGA by C.S. Forester, which I just finished reading last night.[Note: Individual books have individual star ratings (mostly 5-star, a few 4-star), but the descriptive review will be the same for each, and encompass the entire seri...
“Lord Hornblower” by C.S. Forester is his 1946 continuation of the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his rise in the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In the waning years of Napoleon's reign, Hornblower is assigned a delicate mission: there has been a mutiny aboard a British ship, whic...
I found I love the prose very much, which I didn't expect. There's lots and lots of wonderful adjectives, but the author doesn't ever lose track of the action he's telling, unlike, say, Tolkien. ;) It's very descriptive, but you hardly notice unless the author really, really wants you to feel the...
This review is for the complete 11-book series of THE HORNBLOWER SAGA by C.S. Forester, which I just finished reading last night.[Note: Individual books have individual star ratings (mostly 5-star, a few 4-star), but the descriptive review will be the same for each, and encompass the entire seri...
Forester created quite a sympathetic character in The General. Can you sympathize with someone who gets a lot of people killed?Herbert Curzon is a Major in the British army when WWI breaks out. He is very average. I mean, there's nothing special about him to the point that it makes him special. Y...