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The Far Side of the World
Written by Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by Patrick Tull
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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The South Seas are a paradise for battle-weary Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. But their peace is disturbed when Stephen's fancy for a peculiar marine organism lands him overboard. Acting in his usual headstrong fashion, Jack dives in to the rescue, unfortunately failing to plan what will happen once they are both in the water watching the sails of the Surprise disappear in the mist.
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Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O’Brian (1914-2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist, biographer and translator from French. His translations include Henri Charrière’s Papillon, Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle and many of Simone de Beauvoir’s later works, including Les Belles Images, All Said and Done and A Very Easy Death.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great read and a real page turner
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ex-FBI agent Pender is tired of golf after just four months of retirement when an old police friend asks for his help to solve a series of murders in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until then, the fictional island of St. Luke didn't even know they had a serial killer on their hands. When a hurricane unearthed two bodies with missing right hands, just like a girl who was found two years previously, the police track the killer but don't inform the public.Husband and wife anthropologist team Phil and Emily Epp are weird serial killers. While spending time with a culture that believed a person could absorb a person's soul by sucking in their dying breath, Emily accidentally inhales a tribal leader's last breath. She and Phil, along with the tribal leader's son, go on a rampage, stealing dying breaths to prolong their own lives.There are several other plots intertwined in the story. The number of characters introduced at the beginning of the novel is a little overwhelming, but get easier to differentiate as the book goes on. Dion Graham does an excellent job with narration and various island accents.The library had taped a note to the cover stating, "This audiobook contains a great deal of graphic description and language." I didn't think anything of it because I've read plenty of graphic descriptions. However, on disk 2 a sex scene made me stop what I was doing and stare at the player! That set the bar and nothing else surprised me. But if you're squeamish, you might want to pass on this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jonathan Nasaw is the author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored. Twenty-Seven Bones is the first book I’ve read of Nasaw’s. I, reading books from authors I’ve never read anything by before, seems to be happening a lot lately. I’m not sure why. But you never know what you might discover by expanding your horizons. So-to-speak.Anyway, back to the review. A good suspense/thriller keeps you wanting to read, on and on. I found this book to slow down every third or fourth chapter. This was very frustrating, because it was hard to get back into the book, after the slow periods. The characters were extremely well developed. Maybe, and I don’t say this to often, a little to developed. The book was not lacking detail, that’s for sure. So it’s no wonder it was 423 pages. The main thing, I liked about the book was the plot. It was different. Sure I’ve read serial killer books before, but I’m talking the whole religion/customs/voodoo, whatever you want to call it, surrounding the killers. Why they did, what they did.I am a huge fan of the Pendergast Series, written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Twenty-Seven Bones was very similar to something Preston and Child would write
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has big retirement plans - to play as much golf as he can stand. Turns out he can stand a lot, which is why he jumps at the chance to track down a killer.