C.S. Forester's name on a novel gives promise of excellent entertainment, but always something more--the development of character, the flow of history, and the stress of events. THE GOOD SHEPHERD is in this genre.A convoy is ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas during the...
De volta ao familiar mundo de pressão interna de Hornblower, eis outro volume cheio de aventura e intriga mas imensas páginas inúteis a quem não interessa a estratégia técnica naval. Para quem se interessa, a não perder.É um livro mais pequeno do que o costume no ramo dos calhamaços de tragicoméd...
This review is for the complete 11-book series of THE HORNBLOWER SAGA by C.S. Forester, which I just finished reading last night.[Note: Individual books have individual star ratings (mostly 5-star, a few 4-star), but the descriptive review will be the same for each, and encompass the entire seri...
“Lord Hornblower” by C.S. Forester is his 1946 continuation of the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his rise in the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In the waning years of Napoleon's reign, Hornblower is assigned a delicate mission: there has been a mutiny aboard a British ship, whic...
Separated from his regiment during a retreat, Rifleman Matthew Dodd of Wellington's army engaged the French single-handedly and eventually causes their retreat. If you liked "The Gun, " you will love this book.
Loa was not just king of his Central African tribe, he was a god to his people. He controlled life and death in his village. Then he turned outward and conquered his neighbors. He felt very fierce. But this was not to last. Europe was on the march in Africa, and destiny in the form of King Leopol...
I found I love the prose very much, which I didn't expect. There's lots and lots of wonderful adjectives, but the author doesn't ever lose track of the action he's telling, unlike, say, Tolkien. ;) It's very descriptive, but you hardly notice unless the author really, really wants you to feel the...
This review is for the complete 11-book series of THE HORNBLOWER SAGA by C.S. Forester, which I just finished reading last night.[Note: Individual books have individual star ratings (mostly 5-star, a few 4-star), but the descriptive review will be the same for each, and encompass the entire seri...
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey BogartA fast-moving tale and a very good yarn...Mr Forester again and again proves himself a master of suspense - New York Times Book ReviewAs World War I reaches the hea...
Forester created quite a sympathetic character in The General. Can you sympathize with someone who gets a lot of people killed?Herbert Curzon is a Major in the British army when WWI breaks out. He is very average. I mean, there's nothing special about him to the point that it makes him special. Y...
'Who is?' 'We are. You and I. We are going carpentering or rope- making or boat-building- they want men for all those.' 'Who does?' 'Headquarters. The colonel announced this morning that all men with a knowledge of carpentry or boat-building or rope-making or smith's work were to report to the ad...
But it turned out that there was no immediate need for the poison, because the arrival of the police was not the first step in a personal tragedy; it was part of a national tragedy, of a world-wide tragedy, for that was the morning that the Germans invaded Holland, and the police were arresting, ...