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Bwahaha, somebody has finally made a spock_chapel comm. AWESOME. Now, quick, somebody cast Anne Dudek as Chapel in the next Abrams film.

Meme! That I have in fact done before! But, well, hulamoth gave me new prompts, and who am I to resist?

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You shouldddd! Well. As I said in the post, Lieutenant Hornblower was definitely my favorite of the books, helped by the fact that I didn't have the plot spoiled for me by having seen the movies first, so I don't know if it's quite as good if you already have a rough idea of some of the twists and reveals (but, I mean, I've reread the book and still enjoyed it, and obviously there are a lot of differences from the movies, so). It's a bit confusing to know where to start because the books were written very much out of chronological order, so while Lieutenant Hornblower, for instance is the second book in terms of order of events, it was the seventh Hornblower book that Forester wrote. If you get the newer editions, they're numbered chronologically... older ones might be organized by publication, I'm not really sure. So anyway, for the best ones I'd probably recommend the original trilogy (Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours), and, well, Lieutenant Hornblower, obvs. Also, fair warning -- if you were a big fan of Archie in the movies, prepare yourself for disappointment because he only merits something like two sentences in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and that's it. (This is of course compensated for by the fact that Bush is the total BEST THING EVER so it's all good. Evidence, as transcribed from my copy of Beat to Quarters [because, yes, I do have all of my eeee Bush eeeee!! moments bookmarked]: "Aye aye, sire," said Bush. There was anxiety in his face, and Horblower realized with a thrill of pleasure that Bush was actually worried about his captain's well being. "Do you think -- is it safe for you on shore alone, sir?"
"I don't know," said Hornblower, with honest indifference. "I must go, that is all."
"We'll bring you off, sir, safe and sound, if there is any hanky-panky."
ADORABLE, I TELL YOU.) Also, Horatio is about twenty thousand times douchier in the books, too (granted, it's in part due to all of the books except Lieutenant Hornblower being from his weird grouchy pessimist self-loathing POV, but a lot of times he is kind of an asshole on his own merits as well).