I'm in the middle of Susan Cooper's "Victory" right now and it's DAMNED GOOD. It flips between the story of a young boy pressed into service aboard Nelson's flagship, and that of a homesick English girl living in Connecticut with her blended family, who finds a book about Nelson. I'm not sure how the two are going to connect just yet, and I don't really care all that much about the girl, but the bits with the boy are great so far.
BR was made into a TV series in the 1980s, with a youthful Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Sebastian. They are *adorable*. The series itself is long and lavish and very true to the book.
There are rumours that Andrew Davies (1995 Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones' Diary, the Vanity Fair mini-series I made the vid out of, etc) is going to make another BR mini-series with Jude Law and Paul Bettany, but he got himself on my shit list forever for saying that he was going to remove any homoerotic subtext. This after making "Tipping the Velvet". Fucker.
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BR was made into a TV series in the 1980s, with a youthful Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Sebastian. They are *adorable*. The series itself is long and lavish and very true to the book.
There are rumours that Andrew Davies (1995 Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones' Diary, the Vanity Fair mini-series I made the vid out of, etc) is going to make another BR mini-series with Jude Law and Paul Bettany, but he got himself on my shit list forever for saying that he was going to remove any homoerotic subtext. This after making "Tipping the Velvet". Fucker.