You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
Each individual story is on itself brilliant, it's just disappointing that this was never finished by CS Forester. Whilst we know the planned plot of the book, it would have been great to read it in full! It's almost worse knowing the plot because you can imagine how well Forester would have told the tale!
This was on its way to being my favorite of the novels. Hornblower's painful self-awareness is used to good effect. It's always a double-tragedy when an author dies in the middle of a series, and a certain kind of torture for the reader to get a glimpse of the book that could have been.
AND we never find out what Meadows did to sink Hotspur. Son of a bitch.
AND we never find out what Meadows did to sink Hotspur. Son of a bitch.
This is an unfinished fragment of a novel, but it's good enough that I am agonized that we'll never see the rest. Hornblower as a spy! It breaks off before he can actually set off into France under false pretenses, but what I would have given to see blunt, upright Horatio wrestle with the angst of being a conniving spy...
This is not much of a book. Forester died while writing it so it is unfinished and unedited. The premise of Hornblower training to be a spy and setting off on a secret mission does sound cool (and SO late 60's) but it's very short and ends before that story begins. I am surprised it was published at all.
adventurous
fast-paced
The final - and incomplete - Hornblower story, set back just before Trafalgar.
And I say incomplete deliberately, as [a:C.S. Forester|932179|C.S. Forester|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1218219226p2/932179.jpg] died before he could complete this work, although he left notes over where it was heading
What we have is, thus, more or less the opening act to the story: Hornblower, heading back to England for a new posting after handing over command of the Hotspur, finds himself engaged in a boarding action against a French vessel and, subsequently, in possession of some very important piece of information that may answer the age-old question of just why Trafalgar was fought when the French and Spanish fleet had no need to at all ...
it's just a pity that Forester never got the chance to finish the story.
And I say incomplete deliberately, as [a:C.S. Forester|932179|C.S. Forester|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1218219226p2/932179.jpg] died before he could complete this work, although he left notes over where it was heading
What we have is, thus, more or less the opening act to the story: Hornblower, heading back to England for a new posting after handing over command of the Hotspur, finds himself engaged in a boarding action against a French vessel and, subsequently, in possession of some very important piece of information that may answer the age-old question of just why Trafalgar was fought when the French and Spanish fleet had no need to at all ...
it's just a pity that Forester never got the chance to finish the story.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No