What are you reading right now?

Kazuaki Shimazaki II · 10-15-08, 09:18 AM

I've just read C.S. Forester's 1943 work The Ship. How was it? Well, let's just say that if he's born now, he'll be writing Tom Clancy's SSN or Bear and the Dragon or maybe he's just a 1943 version of Patrick Robinson.

I know the WWII Italian Navy was hardly in the running for "Best Navy", but even counting the fact it is a piece of wartime propaganda there's no need to write them as incompetently as he did.

In one go, the author effectively insults both the Italians and the Brits who fought them. The Russians would no doubt be ecstatic to find out that Malta was more important than Moscow. The Germans basically did nothing.

In short, mediocre characterization and wartime propaganda. Sigh...

10-15-08, 09:18 AM	#11
Kazuaki Shimazaki II Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I've just read C.S. Forester's 1943 work The Ship. How was it? Well, let's just say that if he's born now, he'll be writing Tom Clancy's SSN or Bear and the Dragon or maybe he's just a 1943 version of Patrick Robinson. I know the WWII Italian Navy was hardly in the running for "Best Navy", but even counting the fact it is a piece of wartime propaganda there's no need to write them as incompetently as he did. In one go, the author effectively insults both the Italians and the Brits who fought them. The Russians would no doubt be ecstatic to find out that Malta was more important than Moscow. The Germans basically did nothing. In short, mediocre characterization and wartime propaganda. Sigh...