{"id":410,"date":"2006-04-12T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=410"},"modified":"2024-04-07T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:19:18","slug":"obrian_07spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/04\/obrian_07spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Brian, Patrick: (07) The Surgeon’s Mate<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post contains SPOILERS for The Surgeon’s Mate<\/cite><\/strong>. Here’s the non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n

[Originally posted at my LiveJournal<\/a> while this booklog was down.]<\/p>\n

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Well, Stephen and Diana are married. It doesn’t take any great psychological insight to tell that this is not the end of their difficulties; a book that starts out with Miss Smith (you should’ve heard<\/em> me yelling at Jack over that one in the car) and has them married on HMS Oedipus<\/cite>, for goodness’ sake, makes that more than clear. (I will accept prostrating sea-sickness as an acceptable way to get out of bearing Johnson’s child.)<\/p>\n

I was so very amused that Stephen is a terrible public speaker. And relieved that he didn’t display another talent.<\/p>\n

Is the dyslexic Lieutenant really responsible for the crash? Surely the hands would know what to expect and what he meant, rather than just blindly listen to larboard or starboard?<\/p>\n

When I mentioned secondary characters and criss-crossing—of course Miss Smith would snag marriage there in Canada over money sent intermittently from after, and of course Johnson would show up in Paris.<\/p>\n

Jack getting them to clean the prison apartment was very funny. The escape was lovely in all its parts—I’ve been reading Engineering in the Ancient World<\/cite> and Jack’s contrivance reminded me of that. I’ll have to look up Talleyrand—I know he was quite the player in any number of sense of the word, but I don’t know whether his machinations here were historical or had any effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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