Series books and libraries are eee-villlll

So thanks to a lifetime love of Regency, too much Hornblower, and Melinda loaning me the book "Master and Commander," I have found yet another book series to eat up my waking hours. The Patrick O'Brian novels, upon several of which the movie "Master and Commander" was based, are really really good. Better than the Hornblower books, I must say, which are good but are more like adventure series for boys. The O'Brians have MARVELOUS characters, wonderful humor, sex, love, travel, ornithology, ship-battles, espionage, more marvelous characters, you name it.

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What would I have done if I'd started in the middle of a series that the author hadn't finished? It'd be like waiting for Harry Potter but over and over and over. The torture!

PS: How do you do a livejournal cut? Duh.