Zero Audiobooks have recently uploaded all ten Hornblower books to Youtube. These are the old recordings that have been around for ages, but it's nice to have them all in one place. Links below if you're interested.

* Mr Midshipman Hornblower
* Lieutenant Hornblower
* Hornblower and the Hotspur
* Hornblower and the Atropos
* The Happy Return
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Way back in July I started posting reviews I'd written of the Horatio Hornblower books by C. S. Forester.  With this we've reached the end of the series, although I have reviewed one more C. S. Forester book and will post that in the next couple of days.  Here then is my take on Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies.
Dave

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Well, I tried to come up with something new for the Boat Challenge, but to no avail. So, given that the option to "repost vintage creative endeavours" was available, I blew the dust off this one, originally posted in 2010 for the letter S in lokei's Horatio Hornblower Alphabet Soup ficathon. The boat in question is a steam tug, as it appears in a ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I can quite see Hornblower as a blond! Love the frilly shirt though :)


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It has been a few weeks since reading Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, and quite frankly, I was beginning to think I'd never get a review written.  Nonetheless I've pressed on and finally have a little something.  So here it is.
Dave

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

C. S. Forester

Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney

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One of the first things newbies to the Hornblower fandom via the TV series wants to know is if the books are any good, and in which order should they be read. It’s a daunting thing to be confronted with so many books mostly with such horribly generic names, though I’ll imagine not as daunting if you want to pick up an O’Brian ( Read more... )