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Ragged Clown's avatar

If you liked Master and Commander, do read the books! I've read the whole series three times. It follows Captain Jack and Doctor Maturin from Jack's first ship through to being an admiral. It's one of my favourite stories.

Stephen Maturin never quite understands how the Navy works, and the books kind of give readers the same experience, where you don't know exactly what the words mean or why they did what they did — and yet you are carried along anyway.

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Andrea E Wenet's avatar

I love (!) reading what you write! Thank you.

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Ergil's avatar

Great though The Wire is, the fact that everyone knows about it yet hardly anyone knows about Deadwood (at least in my neck of the woods) is criminal

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Martin Greenwald, M.D.'s avatar

I need to rewatch Master and Commander with my kids. Not quite yet (5 and 7 seems a tad young), but it’s not as far off as I might think…

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Radek's avatar

Deadwood was great but it did suffer from the “we told a great story but now dont know how to end it” issues that plagued lots of late 90s/early 00s series. At least that's how i remember it.

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Yassine Meskhout's avatar

Well, partly that might be because it was cancelled prematurely. The 2019 movie was actually surprisingly great as a wrap-up!

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Radek's avatar

Oh hell I actually missed that happened

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9A's avatar

If you look at graphs of genre popularity in book publishing, Westerns have tanked harder than most. The market shifted to superheroes, but I feel like we've lost something in the process.

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Ragged Clown's avatar

I think this is a shame.

I think it's largely because anything that implies that native Americans are less than sovereign, indigenous people, or suggests that colonialist invaders had any right to be there is an indiscretion.

I still think it's a shame. Sometimes history tells stories that are not accurate or are offensive — but they are still stories.

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