Sharpe or Aubrey?

Ive recently read nearly all the Richard Sharpe books and when I read them I thought they were some of the best books ever written, I mean I like read them in 2-3 days for each book.

Recently I haven've had time to get hte next ones so I continued reading some of the Jack Aubrey books (I had read 1 and 2) and I started reading HMS Surprise. It was such a complete change (for the Better) from the Sharpes books. The language, the dialouge, the action, the charachters, seemed so much more diverese, so much more colorful than those of the Sharpe books.

The Characters weren't all good and band, black and white, they were a lot more realistic. The dialouge was possibly the most noticable change, not only did Patrick O'brien have the characters talk in the very colorful language of the era but he also wrote in the same language too. He captured almost every aspect of society via how he expressed small talk and the thoughts of the characters.

I liked the Shape's books a lot but I think the Aubrey books are a lot better.

O'Brien couldn't even write. His books are tedious drudgery, a drearisome litany of naval technical detail he copied near-verbatim from textbooks. His prose-style is feeble like a 12 year-olds, his characters clumsy. If you want Napoleonic naval adventure then read C. S. Forester's Hornblower books. O'Brien is just awful.

As for the Sharpe series, they are at least competently written, if formulaic.

Have you even read the Aubrey books? They are so completly and colorfully written that to the inexpiereinced reader it could seem wearysome to comprhend. Maybe learn som vocabulary annd return to them. Hardly any of the terms are nauticaly technical and even then Stephen's Ignorance makes up for it as an explination.

The books are rather complicated to read and that could make it hard for someone who doesn't read as much, the Sharpe's books were a lot easier to read, but after coming out of reading Romeo and Juliet for school the Aubrey books are fairly easy to comprhehend.



and I don't think O'brien copied anything.....