- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: W.W. Norton; First American Edition edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393046745
- ISBN-13: 978-0393046748
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.6 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #809,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a weird collection...,
This review is from: The Hundred Days (Hardcover)
A couple of years later and I stroll in and see such a weird collection of remarks! It seems that people either love this installment or absolutely loathe it. By my rating, you can see that I enjoyed it immensely. I think that O'Brian lived up to his reputation as a sophisticated storyteller. Yes, Diana's death is a mere mention - but the author creates such a deeply painful upset that feels very real - we grieve with Stephen from the shock - and if we are open to it, we appreciate the story even more. And yes, Bonden's demise is equally jarring, but that's life at sea (especially during that time). My one critique of O'Brian - there should have been more death among Aubrey's and Maturin's closest friends and followers - that is, if history were followed more closely. So - to the naysayers I say -"you are heard, but you do not speak for everybody." I love this book as I love the entire series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
an utter disappointment,
By Buck Bauer (ELDERSBURG, MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hundred Days (Hardcover)
Don't read this book. If I could, I would give it zero stars. O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin novels are among the greatest works of historical fiction ever written, but the series should have ended with the previous volume, a gem, #18, "The Yellow Admiral," which nicely ties up a number of plot threads, leaving us to imagine a happy future for our favorite characters. "The Hundred Days" is both unnecesssary and bad. I am not the only Aubrey fan I know who was left wondering whether O'Brian was in fact the author -- it reads like someone trying to imitate O'Brian's style, and failing badly. Abandoning his beloved slow match in favor of the flint lock is just one of several things that Jack does that are completely out of character. In the subsequent and final volume, #20, "Blue at the Mizzen," little better than this one, O'Brian attempts to backtrack and have Aubrey compensate for the most glaring one of these lapses, but it's too little and too late.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining as always,
By A Customer
I love great historical fiction and O'Brian's Napoleonic era novels, although not as timely as more recently set novels like the Civil War's "Cold Mountain" or WWII's "The Triumph and the Glory", capture the era in magnificent fashion. But no matter what type of fiction you like you should read the Aubrey/Maturin novels, they are wonderful, finely-crafted examples of the story-telling art. If you want to learn how to write a novel, read Patrick O'Brian, If you love to read great novels, he's your man too.
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