{"id":583,"date":"2008-02-09T22:19:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T22:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:19:07","slug":"obrian_16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/02\/obrian_16\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (16) <cite>The Wine-Dark Sea<\/cite> (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my relief, <strong>Patrick O&#8217;Brian returns to form in <cite>The Wine-Dark Sea<\/cite><\/strong>, which picks up almost immediately after the disappointing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/obrian_15.php\"><cite>The Truelove<\/cite><\/a>. Lots of stuff happens, as part of a coherent story; that stuff arising from human action flows from much more natural characterizations; and a long-pending plan is finally carried out. My only quibble is that the last sequence doesn&#8217;t fit as smoothly with the plot of the main book, but it does round off a longer arc, so I can see why it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>I find I have fewer and fewer non-spoiler comments to make about these as the series progresses, just because I&#8217;m not sure where to draw the line. But this was a good installment in the series, and I think will hold up even after the relief of non-shark-jumping fades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my relief, Patrick O&#8217;Brian returns to form in The Wine-Dark Sea, which picks up almost immediately after the disappointing The Truelove. Lots of stuff happens, as part of a coherent story; that stuff arising from human action flows from much more natural characterizations; and a long-pending plan is finally carried out. My only quibble &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/02\/obrian_16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (16) <cite>The Wine-Dark Sea<\/cite> (audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,118],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aubrey-maturin","category-historical","category-single-narrator-audio","tag-obrian-patrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}