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This is what happens when you have your cultural experiences backward.
...I've just realized that watching Hornblower is making me nostalgic for--making me actively consider hunting down and rereading--David Feintuch's Midshipman's Hope.
I've gotten to the point of telling myself the first one wasn't so bad, it was just the cumulative effect of five books' worth of...
Everything goes wrong.
Hero saves the day.
Hero blames himself for everything that went wrong.
Hero thinks he's going to hell.
Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.
...that compelled my seventeen-year-old, critical-judgement-free self to give up on the books so entirely as to sell them off.
I've gotten to the point of telling myself the first one wasn't so bad, it was just the cumulative effect of five books' worth of...
Everything goes wrong.
Hero saves the day.
Hero blames himself for everything that went wrong.
Hero thinks he's going to hell.
Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.
...that compelled my seventeen-year-old, critical-judgement-free self to give up on the books so entirely as to sell them off.