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Which Age of Sail series is your favourite?
Which Age of Sail series is your favourite?
Does David Drake's Daniel Leary series count? :)
If it does, then the first few Honor Harrington novels should, as well, until they get to the point where it abruptly flips to being modern and Tom Clancy-ish.
John Paul
03-17-2015, 22:18
I went with Forrester even though I enjoy just as much O'Brien and Kent, and the Ramage series equally! I do prefer reading an action packed story like "Hornblower" and "Bilitho", as sometimes the minutia of the period presented by O'Brien sometimes causes my eyes to glaze over. However, I still find the series interesting to read due to the character development the series takes you through!
Oh, heck, I forgot Pope! Should I nuke this poll and start over with Ramage included?
If it does, then the first few Honor Harrington novels should, as well, until they get to the point where it abruptly flips to being modern and Tom Clancy-ish.
And that's why the Learyverse scores over the Honorverse. That, and Drake has not succumbed to "900-page 'action' novel with 9 pages of People Shooting At Each Other". >:)
Eep! I just discovered that there's a whole other forum just for polls. Sorry about that!
Diamondback
03-18-2015, 19:14
LOL, we all have our rookie Teething Difficulties... as for me, I'm more the Heavy Metal of WWII than Wooden Ships & Iron Men, but kinda got dragged down this sidetrack because getting in on the ground floor as a consultant was a chance to help Ares avoid some o the pitfalls of other nautical mass-market games. *stares pointedly at WizKids Pirates*
Did someone say "heavy metal?"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/futabachan/2014-06-03195945.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/futabachan/media/2014-06-03195945.jpg.html)
Diamondback
03-18-2015, 19:35
Not that kind of heavy metal, THIS kind of heavy metal:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/New_Jersey_Shoots.jpg
:D
Looks pretty metal to me. \m/__(>.<)__\m/
Diamondback
03-18-2015, 19:39
Do bear in mind, I was smacked in the head with a submarine once... thereare some who aren't sure my brain's fully come back even 20 years later. LOL
Comte de Brueys
03-19-2015, 07:12
Which Age of Sail series is your favourite?
The Hornblower series for me.
Comte de Brueys
03-19-2015, 07:14
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/New_Jersey_Shoots.jpg
Looks like an US BB crossing the English Channel after a successful operation "Seelöwe" in 1946.
I appreciate the characters of several of the characters in the Hornblower series.
Eep! I just discovered that there's a whole other forum just for polls. Sorry about that!
Moved accordingly.
For a similar poll: http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?746-Poll-Which-is-your-favorite-naval-book-series
Old Salt
03-19-2015, 20:32
The Hornblower series for me.
Me also
Privateers and Gentlemen series for me.
Mycenius
03-23-2015, 01:48
Horatio Hornblower, of course!! :wink:
John Paul
04-04-2015, 23:39
DB,
That's the type of Heavy Metal that WILL rock your world!! :thumbsup:
Unless you're dug in really, really deep!!!!
Brought up on Hornblower, and Kent, but now veering toward Pope.
Rob.
capncarp
08-28-2015, 16:45
Forrester fan, tried and true, including some of his non-HH stories.
Following that, it's a toss-up of O'Brien, Honorverse, Niven (Known Space has many interstellar voyages), and Niven/Pournelle (The Mote In God's Eye),etc.
Oh. And e.e. "Doc" Smith's Lensman and Skylark series.
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