{"id":485,"date":"2007-02-04T21:53:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T21:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=485"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:55:17","slug":"obrian_12spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/02\/obrian_12spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Brian, Patrick: (12) The Letter of Marque<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPOILERS for The Letter of Marque<\/cite><\/strong>; here’s the non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps if I just type a bunch of exclamation marks here, I won’t overuse them in the rest of the post: !!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Now that that’s out of my system:<\/p>\n

The actions, of course, and Jack’s eventual reinstatement—not that I doubted it was coming, since I know what the title of the last book is, but still. And the disguises and strings of prizes and desparate cutting-out expeditions; it really did feel like the Sophie<\/cite> to me, except for the horses. Dear William (not Charles!) Babbington; and I bet that a pistol ball pressing on the sciatic hurts like anything, having had an infinitesimally small difficulty with that nerve myself. Somehow I doubt that Jack’s resolution to keep mum in Parliament will last, given his on-shore judgment; but that’s okay, there has to be some source of future land-based trouble for him. (Philip Aubrey is awfully cute, and I hope we see more of him.)<\/p>\n

I was surprised that Wray and Ledward were not taken, further spinning out this plot thread. There’s a suggestion, I believe, that they are homosexual, which makes me glad that there was a homosexual character of unquestionably good character in the first book, so I don’t have to fear that authorial (perhaps unconscious) homophobia is behind the Evil Gays.<\/p>\n

Poor dear Stephen and his addiction, now finally out in the open to both good and bad effect (by which I mean, Padeen would be unlikely to have become addicted if Stephen didn’t treat the possibility so lightly out of his own denial). I understand why O’Brian stuck so closely to Stephen’s point-of-view after his accident (and what remarkable writing that was), but I would have liked Diana’s change of heart to be filled in just a bit more. That’s about my only complaint.<\/p>\n

Yay, happy endings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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