Forester doesn’t dumb-down naval terminology for the reader. Midshipman Hornbower, which made it familiar to me and in many ways made it easier to read.
Four of the specials are based on events in Mr. Thankfully, I picked this book up after having viewed the series of A&E films based on the character.
It can be hard for newcomers to the series to start here.įorester does let me get inside Hornblower’s head at times, so it’s not completely from a third-person perspective, but I found it difficult to bond to the character and probably would not have finished the book nor continued the series if I hadn’t already had an investment in them. Rather than building them for a new audience, it seems as if Forester is writing adventures for people who are already very well-acquainted with them already. Midshipman Hornbower was written after there was more known about the characters contained within. This is one of the main places where it seems very obvious Mr. The characters don’t seem to have a great deal of depth throughout, the only one who really seems to grow is Hornblower as even his crewmates who are repeatedly mentioned don’t seem to get much of a chance to become rounded characters to me. Although he builds on the central character throughout the book, as well as some peripheral characters, it was hard reading as each chapter seemed to veer off on an entirely different adventure, rather than concentrating on one major even throughout Mr. These stories were combined together into a novel, but they still read more like short stories than a novel with a central theme.įorester’s writing style here can be difficult. It is actually a series of short stories as Horatio embarks on his first assignment as a midshipman in the British Navy prior to the turn of the 19th century. It introduces the character and creates a background for him.
Midshipman Hornbower starts the series off, although it was not the first written.
Forester began his Horatio Hornblower series with a novel that is now in the middle part of a series of eleven books that take place in the British Navy during the late 1700s and early 1800s. George Lucas wasn’t the first to craft his Star Wars saga out of order. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.All Creatures Great And Small (Original Series).
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