Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780736670333
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN number: 0736670335
Label: Books on Tape
Manufacturer: Books on Tape
Quantity: 9
Printing Date: 2003-02
Publishing house: Books on Tape
Sale Popularity Level: 2629402
Studio: Books on Tape
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In 1780, 17-year-old Alan Lewrie is rebellious and close to being a libertine, so much so that his father believes a bit of naval discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the king's ship ARIADNE, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding - rather unexpectedly - that he is a born sailor, equally at home on bawdy shore leave or afloat and in battle at sea. A vastly popular series, we watch Lewrie mature, but not to the point where he outgrows his appetite for adventure and risk, and for all that comes with them.
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This is the very first book in a 12 plus book series, about the tales of Alan Lewrie, who goes from midshipman in the British Royal Navy to Captain during the 1780's to the Napoleanic Wars. The adventure is very good, the character development is excellent, we really get to know the midshipman and his thought process. Our hero is not the eagar young person wanting to join the navy, but a privledged (...)son of a Lord, who is 'pressed' into naval service by the trickery of his father. The nautical settings are accurately presented, however, the old english, and the foreign tongues that are part of the story are sometimes a little hard to understand. No need for a dictionary, but prepare to comprehend some passages that are not easy reading.
Lastly, while many of our nautical heros do not seem to have a sex life, our hero has a good and vividly portrayed one. He seems to have almost as much fun in bed as he does on the decks of a fighting ship. Overall a great start to a series, I am currently reading book 7 and look forward to the rest of the series.
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This very first installment Alan lewrie gets pressed into service. The story is interesting and deals mostly with Lewries difficulties adjusting to his new life as a midshipman in His Majesty's Navy. There are only a couple of battles in this book but it is still an exciting read. The one thing that I don't like is the VERY graphic descriptions of Lewries sexual exploits. It would be good enough to just let you know he bedded certain women. Those parts of the book are unneccessary. I am reading a naval adventure, not looking for pornography.
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For historical fiction, this series is absolutely unbeatable! Huzzah for Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewerie!
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I don't believe Dewey Lambdin went out to try to match the depth of style and prose of Patrick O'Brian. O'Brian will be very, very difficult to even match for quite a while. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the romp and action of this novel. I have not yet read the subsequent one, but will soon. If you're looking for lighter reading than O'Brian or C. S. Forrester, this is certainly a choice. Lambdin's Alan Lewrie character is much more of a hero/anti-hero than is Hornblower, and a little more so than is Aubrey.
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If an author sets out to pen a new swashbuckling, age of sail novel, he finds himself in the unenviable position of having to measure up to the works of C.S. Foreseter and Patrick O'Brian. To make these stories engaging to a reader that has already consumed perhaps dozens of swashbuckling naval adventure novels, the main character has to have a hook that makes him stand out as unique. The hook for Lambdin's Alan Lewrie is so simple, I'm surprised that it is new: Lewrie is teen-aged rake and libertine, and "The King's Coat" blend the staples of the naval adventure with the borderline pornographic style of a cheap romance novel.
The results are lurid and earthy, perhaps more "Moll Flanders" on the gun deck of a man of war than God, King and Country. Lewrie's sexual adventures put a new twist on the role of being the King's man in the 18th Century, especially when compared against the chilly and self-conscious Hornblower. Indeed, Lewrie makes me think of what the lusty Mr. Midshipman Aubrey who got himself turned out among the common hands for keeping a whore in the focsle must have been like. Those in love with the details of nautical life in the age of sail should look elsewhere; Lambin's prose shares a disdain for such matters similar to Forester's; he is no O'Brian. The novel's feel for action borrows a great deal from Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho novels. Lambdin's main innovation is in his ribaldry.
The result is an earthy novel detailing the adventures of a promising young swashbuckling officer entering HM's Navy in 1780. The story is enjoyably precisely because the characters are so human. If you are a fan of this kind of fiction, give "The King's Coat" a try.
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