linucs@lemmy.ml to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 hours agoWhat books are your favourite and what are you reading now?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down11
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minus-squareLeraje@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 hours agoFavourites include Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin’s Hainish cycle. Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.
minus-squareblueduck@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoI always came down on the Hornblower side. Have you read that series? How do they compare?
minus-squareLeraje@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoHornblower is OK. I enjoy some of it but O’Brian has a knack for humour and tragedy thats mostly absent in the Hornblower series.
Favourites include Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin’s Hainish cycle.
Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.
I always came down on the Hornblower side. Have you read that series? How do they compare?
Hornblower is OK. I enjoy some of it but O’Brian has a knack for humour and tragedy thats mostly absent in the Hornblower series.