One advantage of a Hornblower community like this is that I can ask this question without feeling stupid. My copy of Beat to Quarters/The Happy Return is in storage, and I need to know the names of the officers (Lieutenants and Midshipmen) for a story I'm writing. I don't want to just make up names if names were already given. I know Lieutenant ( Read more... )

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

Admiral Hornblower in the ( Read more... )

Hey, I found it.  I'd posted it to the following_sea nearly three years ago, but somehow neglected to keep a copy in my files.  (We changed/updated our computer during that time, so perhaps it was never transfered to the new system.)  Anyway, to nearly complete this current run of reviewing the Hornblower books by C. S. Forester, here it is again.
Dave

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It's been a while since my last Hornblower review was posted.  Here's a review of the book that started it all for me.
Dave

Commodore Hornblower
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney            Several decades ago, a book loving high school freshman searched the shelves of his school library, looking for something to read.  By chance he ( Read more... )

As of late I've posted a couple of reviews on books outside the Age of Sail genre, and I hope they've  triggered interest in the stories and the authors.  While I'm in the mood to post, here's the next in the Hornblower series.

Flying Colours
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney            C. S. Forester ends the Captain Horatio ( Read more... )

As I continue through the Hornblower Saga, here is a review of the next book in line.  (I'll try to remember to put the majority of it behind an LJ cut, as with my last posted review, someone thought it was a bit too long to be posted without a cut.
Dave

Ship of the Line
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney            This is early ( Read more... )

It's been a few days since I've posted any reviews of the Hornblower books, so I suppose it is about time I did so.  Here is my take on the first Hornblower book written and published.
Dave

Beat to Quarters/The Happy Return
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney            In the early nineteenth century, Captain Horatio Hornblower ( Read more... )

Here is another review of the Hornblower books by C. S. Forester.  Up today, Hornblower and the Atropos.

Hornblower and the Atropos
C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney
            After reading Hornblower during the Crisis, a work which felt unrefined and not quite ready for publication, it was a joy to begin Hornblower and the Atropos.  ( Read more... )

Well, in the immediate aftermath of the Fourth of July and Horatio Hornblower's Birthday, here is another review of one of C. S. Forester's Hornblower books.  I may have mentioned at one time or another that I originally intended to include Horatio Hornblower as a minor character in my Stone Island Sea Stories.  Thus I tried to arrange some of the ( Read more... )

Here's my review (again) of the second book in the Hornblower saga.
Dave

P. S. It was the Hornblower books that inspired me to start writing and to come up with what are now the Stone Island Sea Stories.

Lieutenant Hornblower
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney          A Royal Navy ship-of-the-line bound for the West Indies, ( Read more... )