This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
Stitchley's Rating:
While the movie may have gotten a PG-13 rating I found this book to be boring... much as I found the movie to be. There were several points in the book where I really thought that there might actually be some real potential in the story only to have it die away in monotony. I've read plenty of stories about the sea, and this could have been good, but it needed the boring stuff edited out in my opinion.
Instances of Swearing:
- Hell: 4
- Ass: 2
- Bitch: 9
- Shit: 1
- Genital Related: 1
- Damn: 12
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