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first post and a question!

Jun 28, 2009 09:20

hey, all. bought 'master and commander' a few months ago and am slowly making my way through the series -- am up to 'the fortune of war' at the moment. (did anybody else notice a rather high number of typos in their copy of 'desolation island'? i counted five or six at least on my first runthrough ( Read more... )

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ylla June 28 2009, 14:25:28 UTC

You're about the same place I am - I finished Desolation Island earlier this week, and I don't have The Fortune of War yet (it was surprisingly difficult to resist buying it in norwegian, but that would have been silly. I'm back in an english speaking country now...)

I remember seeing one surprising typo, but I'm not sure now if it was DI or HMSS - I had both books with me.

It's nice to see other relatively new people around :)

torsui June 30 2009, 21:25:18 UTC

... i think i'm in love with your icon. stephen, books, intelligence work? ♥

i think 'desolation island' is my favorite so far, just because of all the crap that occurs within it. man.

ylla July 1 2009, 08:29:28 UTC

It comes from mandc_icons, so I can't take any credit for it :)
(There's an animated version with different pictures as well, which is cool, but I don't tend to use moving icons myself).

My favourite so far is one of the first three, but I can't decide which - I love them all for different reasons.

esteven June 28 2009, 15:05:52 UTC

Welcome aboard! Give you much joy of having seen the movie and also having started on the books.

Maybe you would like to join mandc_read, where we are reading the books chapter by chaper at the weekends? At the moment we are at The Surgeon's Mate, chapter six. :D

Thank you for offering you audiobooks and the Beeb afternoon play. Is that the same as this?

As to the books we had a number of links to audiobooks when
HMS Surprise
Post Captain
and Master and Commander were posted there. I think a lot of people on this comm will be thrilled to find more audiobooks, as long as we please keep in mind that most of those are copyrighted and we would not like to step on anybody’s toes. Surely there will be a solution. :D

Once again, welcome!

ylla June 28 2009, 16:05:21 UTC

Maybe you would like to join [info]mandc_read, where we are reading the books chapter by chaper at the weekends? At the moment we are at The Surgeon's Mate, chapter six.

Come and join me in the Desolation Island comments - I've been having fun commenting as I go, and maybe some later arrival will see my comments at some point :)
(This applies to esteven and everyone else as well, of course, if they want :) )

torsui June 30 2009, 21:23:29 UTC

... oooooh. reading community. :D! though i'm not sure i could constrain myself to only one chapter a week.

the BBC play looks to be the same, though i have mine in three separate mp3 files. as for the audiobooks, maybe flocking them to members of the community only?

ecto_gammat June 28 2009, 18:10:43 UTC

A bit off topic, but I must say that your icon is made of pure win.

torsui June 28 2009, 19:43:21 UTC

i figured it would be appropriate. :D

ecto_gammat June 28 2009, 19:46:20 UTC

Instead of 1980s San Fran, the crew of the Enterprise slightly overshoot o.O

Oh. my. god. the crack!fic would be delicious.

THAT'S HOW STEPHEN FINDS THE TRIBBLES! HOLYSHIT.

cats_paws June 28 2009, 21:33:43 UTC

(did anybody else notice a rather high number of typos in their copy of 'desolation island'? i counted five or six at least on my first runthrough.)

Yeah, they're full of typos - the old HarperCollins versions at least. Some obvious - this week's chapter in the groupread has Jack pacing the qBuarterdeck - and some where I'm not sure whether the publishers or Patrick O'Brian goofed, like with Faster Doudle/Doodle.

torsui June 30 2009, 21:21:44 UTC

i've actually been collecting the norton editions (mostly because i'm a dork and i prefer the spine art to the HC editions).

... *is giggling her head off at 'qBuarterdeck'* oh dear.

ylla July 1 2009, 08:41:14 UTC

I am incredibly shallow, and have been buying the ones with the Geoff Hunt paintings (the standard HC ones, I think), except where the photographic ones have Stephen on the cover.
*sigh*

cats_paws June 29 2009, 20:47:40 UTC

Regarding audiobooks, apparently there's an abridged version out, reviewed in this weekend's paper. Sounds like a really bad idea to me, but the reviewer liked it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/27/aubrey-martin-obrian-audiobook