Vacuum Deposition onto Webs, Films and Foils (Materials Science and Process Technology)

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This new book from William Andrew Publishing is the only practical reference available for anyone employing the roll-to-roll deposition process. Vacuum Deposition onto Webs, Films and Foils is an expansive journey of the process; benefiting manufacturing efficiency, unit cost reduction, and financial results. It is a sweeping approach to the total design of the vacuum deposition process written by a successful and world renowned consultant with three decades of experience.

Roll-to-roll deposition processing is a high growth industry and this reference covers a wide variety of important industrial products that use vacuum deposited coatings, including: optical storage devices, metallized packaging films, energy conservation windows, electronic information displays, and magnetic electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags among many others. This book is a must-have for roll-to-roll machine operators, process engineers, and research and development engineers throughout industry.

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"Integrates the latest findings on metallized plastics and their far-reaching applications by more than 80 recognized experts from North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Addresses both basic and applied aspects of the subject."

Metallized Plastics 5 & 6: Fundamental & Applied Apsects

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Metallized Plastics 5 & 6: Fundamental & Applied Apsects

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Metallized Plastics 7: Fundamental and Applied Aspects

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Metallized Plastics 7: Fundamental and Applied Aspects

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Crystallization and stress-strain properties of ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene gels filled with iron particles.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Crystallization and stress-strain properties of ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene gels filled with iron particles.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
M.L. Kerber , I.N. Ponomarev , O.A. Lapshova , and E.S. Grinenko
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2783 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Crystallization of ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene (UHMW-PE) filled solutions and gels was studied by differential scanning calorimetry. It has been found that the structure and properties of the gelating systems depend on solvent type, polymer concentration, and filler. Crystallization rate decreases as the polymer content is increased. The crystallization rate dependence on filler concentration passes through a maximum. The influence of a disperse filler on the structure, the stress-strain and relaxation properties of UHMW-PE gels has been studied. The results demonstrate the advantage of using less thermodynamically active solvents (thermodynamic activity means polymer-solvent interaction). This gel-technology enables us to obtain UHMW-PE based materials with a 90-vo1% content of iron particles. Highly loaded fibers based on UHMW-PE were obtained with a tensile strength of 40-50 MPa and an elastic modulus of 350-400 MPa.

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Title: Crystallization and stress-strain properties of ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene gels filled with iron particles.
Author: M.L. Kerber
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v37 Issue: n8 Page: p1359(8)

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Discrete models of failure for particulate polymer composites.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Discrete models of failure for particulate polymer composites.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
V.V. Moshev , and S.E. Evlampieva
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6850 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: A stochastic discrete model is offered that simulates the behavior of particulate composites able to generate and accumulate scattered structural microdamages to the final breakdown of the model. The model is quite transparent, which allows us to observe continuously its internal state and effective behavior. Through numerical experiments, it is established that the accumulation of the scattered damage, accompanied by the appearance of the elastic nonuniformity, ends in a loss of the elastic stability of the whole of system and macrocrack formation in the most compliant part of the body. No strength criteria are needed to describe this process. Breaking stresses and strains and their scatter in repeated experiments, as functions of the virgin system specification, can be calculated and used for safety factors or for optimization of composite properties.

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Title: Discrete models of failure for particulate polymer composites.
Author: V.V. Moshev
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v37 Issue: n8 Page: p1348(11)

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Drawing of high density polyethylene tube: effect of different cooling conditions. : An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Drawing of high density polyethylene tube: effect of different cooling conditions. : An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
I. Ulas
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2977 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: A method of producing biaxially oriented high density polyethylene tube is described where some of the deformation parameters may be controlled by a post mandrel cooling bath application. Experimental results show that dimensional stability of the drawn products primarily depend on uniform temperature distribution around the tube circumference. This research gives a clear understanding of the post mandrel deformation process and shows that natural cooling conditions may lead to inhomogeneous products having properties significantly different from water cooled products.

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Title: Drawing of high density polyethylene tube: effect of different cooling conditions.
Author: I. Ulas
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 39 Issue: 5 Page: 855(7)

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Electrical resistivity behavior of mold-cast metal-filled polymer composites.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Electrical resistivity behavior of mold-cast metal-filled polymer composites.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
Lei Yang , and Dale L. Schruben
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2692 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Mold-cast, metal-filled composites made of poly(methyl methacrylate) and aluminum or nickel exhibited electrical resistance qualitative behavior as predicted by the percolation and tunneling mechanisms. A precipitous change in resistivity of about [10.sup.4] ohm-cm was found at volume concentrations of filler in the range of 18.5 to 19.8 vol%. Details of the electrode system are given for making these measurements. Using different polymers does not change the resistance behavior of the composite to any great degree, suggesting that particle features of shape, size, arrangement, and so forth are the more important parameters. Such particle morphological details are indicated in the included photomicrographs.

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Title: Electrical resistivity behavior of mold-cast metal-filled polymer composites.
Author: Lei Yang
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v34 Issue: n14 Page: p1109(6)

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Metallized CPP fits snack food trends. (cast polypropylene): An article from: Food Processing

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Metallized CPP fits snack food trends. (cast polypropylene): An article from: Food Processing

Manufacturer: Putman Media, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008YXIKC
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on February 1, 1992. The length of the article is 639 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Metallized cast polypropylene (CPP), which is relatively new to the United States, is suited to the needs of today's snack foods marketers. The film product provides both barrier properties and secure seal performance which are needed for today's popular light snacks with fewer preservatives. This new form of packaging will find many applications in the growing snack foods industry.

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Title: Metallized CPP fits snack food trends. (cast polypropylene)
Publication: Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1992
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: v53 Issue: n2 Page: p117(1)

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Tailored materials shape the future. (custom-designed composites): An article from: Tooling & Production

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Tailored materials shape the future. (custom-designed composites): An article from: Tooling & Production
Paul C. Miller
Manufacturer: Nelson Publishing
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008MFXHU
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Tooling & Production, published by Nelson Publishing on November 1, 1989. The length of the article is 1152 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tailored materials shape the future. (custom-designed composites)
Author: Paul C. Miller
Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1989
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: v55 Issue: n8 Page: p70(4)

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The award-winning Our Living World series emphasizes the fascinating patterns in the natural world, enabling readers to discover their own place in the network of life. Each book includes chapters on unique characteristics of the organism, senses, metabolism, reproduction and growth, food webs and food chains, fitting into the web of life. Introductions by John Behler, New York Zoological Society.

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Blind as a Metaphor

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My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
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ASIN: 0375706852
Release Date: 2002-08-27

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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.

The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar

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Worth Reading.......2007-09-26

"My Name is Red" has a solid start and will probably catch your interest right away. The idea of narrating not only from different humans' points of views but also from the POV of inanimate objects is engrossing and feels fresh.

Despite the strong start, the book weakens towards the end. The conclusion is not very enlightening, and the last 5th of the book feels quite anticlimactic. However, if you want to get a feel for 16th century Ottoman Empire and its times/culture, then this is a must-read. I enjoyed "My Name is Red" despite its semi-weak plot because of the different POV's and artistic theme.

Blind as a Metaphor.......2007-09-14

I wish I could avoid "starring" this novel. I could just as easily give it one star or five, since I don't quite know what to make of it. I don't read Turkish, but I've visited Turkey several times. I thought I had a start on an impression of Turkish culture, but this book refutes my impression in that I can't fathom what it might mean to a Turkish reader. (There's a one-star review by a Turkish reader below, which you might want to look at.)
Many reviewers have chosen to treat My Name Is Red as a mystery novel. If I go along with that concept, I'll have to give it one or two stars at most. The "mystery" is of no interest. There are three suspects, the three brilliant miniaturists, but I can't imagine that a normal reader would give a hoot about which is guilty. They are poorly differentiated, except in external details, and I really felt no empathy with any of them. By the canons of popular mystery fiction, this book is an outright failure.
On the other hand, if I choose to read Red as philosophical fiction, in the manner of Borges or Eco, I find myself once again "blinded" by culture. I COULD do a "new criticism" analysis of the metaphor of blindness which pervades the book, but I have no confidence at all that I'd be grasping Pamuk's version of his own writing. I've seldom read a book that seemed so intellectually inaccessible. The other pervading "symbolism" of the book is the "pretty boy", AKA buggery. Okay, Orhan, what are you trying to say, something generic (genus Homo) or something specific to Islam?
I've also read Snow, which I found equally inaccessible intellectually but more rewarding in verbal excitement. Red has its beautiful passages, but I'm not convinced that even the descriptions quite translate into my culturally blinded schema or perception.

I'm A Horse.......2007-08-04

My Name is Red is not really a murder mystery - it is in fact a beautifully written novel of a time of conflict between the Ottomans and what is perceived to be the corrupting influence of the West told through the eyes of miniaturists and dogs and horses and Satan. Orhan Pamuk writes with exquisite skill and humor as he narrates the story through ten or twelve different characters and manages to maintain a degree of suspense throughout. Highly recommended.

Brilliant, unusual, and also average.......2007-06-29

"My Name is Red" is a rare treat, with a fictional account of a brief time in the Muslim world of the 16th century under the Ottoman Empire. Someone with only modest awareness of that historical period and the lurking conflicts between east and west can still enjoy the novel. More knowledge would help, but even in this dense writing, the author doesn't reach too much into the obscure or excessive detail that could overwhelm the reader.

Mr. Pamuk has three primary simultaneous threads, all anchored to the assignment to create a collection of miniature paintings for the Sultan. One is a love story, one is a murder mystery, and one is philosophical contemplation about art and style. The third is easily the core of the novel and far more compelling than the rest.

The love story, which barely qualifies as one, is shallow and more like lust on one side and necessity on the other. The two participants don't bond or even have very many interactions, and I found a particular sex scene right before the end oddly placed and inappropriate.

The murder mystery opens the novel and Pamuk uses an effective alternating first-person style to provide different perspectives, even those of two dead characters and "Satan". The murderer takes its turn a few times, without identification. The perspectives are interesting and wonderfully written. Unfortunately, the murder and the mystery are relatively lame, without generating that urge to hurry to the end for the resolution.

The side discussions on what is art, what is style, where does style come from, and many philosophical riffs on those topics provided the interest for this reader. I knew almost nothing about Islamic art, so Pamuk's background on the role of Allah and other details was quite informative and well integrated, without sounding like a tutorial. Similarly, the description of groundbreaking new art of the western "infidels" and the conflict over whether to embrace the perspective style were quite intriguing.

I didn't know quite what to make of the thread about torture that ran through the novel. Was Pamuk simply describing the role of torture in the empire at that time, so casually applied, without a value judgment, or was he in fact making a concrete statement? That may well be obvious to someone with more familiarity with Pamuk and/or that historical era.

Exquisite smorgasbord.......2007-06-15

A smorgasbord of mystery, philosophy, history, and love novel. The book requires a slow and patient read to appreciate all Pamuk has to offer. It also helps to be somewhat familiar with Ottoman history (there's a chronology at the end).

My Name Is Red.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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My Name Is Red.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Allen Hibbard
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: My Name Is Red.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Allen Hibbard
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Page: 203(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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Orhan Pamuk and the "Ottoman" theme.(SPECIAL SECTION)(Critical essay): An article from: World Literature Today

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Orhan Pamuk and the "Ottoman" theme.(SPECIAL SECTION)(Critical essay): An article from: World Literature Today
Erdag Goknar
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3659 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Orhan Pamuk and the "Ottoman" theme.(SPECIAL SECTION)(Critical essay)
Author: Erdag Goknar
Publication: World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
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Volume: 80 Issue: 6 Page: 34(5)

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Whassup?(Review) (sound recording review): An article from: Girls' Life

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Whassup?(Review) (sound recording review): An article from: Girls' Life
Kara Wilde
Manufacturer: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Girls' Life, published by Monarch Avalon, Inc. on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 615 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Whassup?(Review) (sound recording review)
Author: Kara Wilde
Publication: Girls' Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
Volume: 7 Issue: 5 Page: 36

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Benim Adim Kirmizi (My Name is Red) (Chinese Language)

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Benim Adim Kirmizi (My Name is Red) (Chinese Language)
Orhan Pamuk
Manufacturer: Bardon-Chinese Media Agency
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My Name is Red
Orhan PAMUK
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My Name's Not Red
Jennifer Cdrkur 2 Marks
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The year is 1803, and that scalawag Napoleon Bonaparte has gone to war again. For Captain Jack Aubrey, who has fled to France to escape his creditors, this is doubly alarming news. In short order the captain is interned, makes his escape across the French countryside, and leads a ship into battle. And again, his adventures are cleverly counterpointed by those of his alter ego Stephen Maturin.

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As the first sentences of Post Captain roll off actor Robert Hardy's tongue, you know you're somewhere you've never been before: the high seas in the early 19th century. Hardy's rich rendition of Patrick O'Brian's 1972 novel, a follow-up to Master and Commander, starts with series heroes Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin enjoying a brief period of peace. Soon enough, though, the Napoleonic Wars resume, and the seafaring adventures continue. (Running time: 4.5 hours, three cassettes) --Lou Schuler

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In 1803, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., is interned in France. He escapes from France, from debtor's prison, and from a possible mutiny and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.

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Patrick O'Brian Fan..........2007-09-18

This is the second book a series which is most entertaining to me. There are people who may not like all the information about life on ships and sailing them but the action and the relationships between the characters is totally riviting. I even had to buy the companion books, one of which is "A Sea Of Words" to understand what I was reading and laughing at. I don't know if I would sugest reading these books out of order since they are so much fun going from the first to the last.

An Experimental Novel.......2007-08-29

As is the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series of high-sea adventure, POST CAPTAIN is a mixture of both entertaining and annoying elements. It reads as through the author, a somewhat ne'er-do-well Englishman actually named Richard Patrick Russ (1914-2000) writing under the nom de plume of "Patrick O'Brian," is experimenting with new techniques and approaches, not many of which are successful. Here are what I find to be the most annoying shortcomings of this second novel in the series:

No transitional or prefatory introduction is provided to explain any of the background of the companionship and co-habitation of the two protagonists, Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin, or to explain how they came to be living the life of rather impoverished country gentlemen on very solid land. This novel is, therefore, very much a sequel to MASTER AND COMMANDER, and the reader will find himself rather lost if he has not already read that preceding novel.

Russ/O'Brian spends a fair amount of ink in this book examining the ill-fated romances developing between Aubrey, Maturin, and the young ladies residing in the nearby countryside, attractions that are largely complicated by the artificial mores of "polite society." This is the sort of thematic material that one expects from George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH or William Makepeace Thackery's VANITY FAIR, not in a novel of marine warfare during the Napoleonic Wars, nor does Russ/O'Brian command the literary skill of Eliot or Thackery, and the theme of doubtful love is not particularly well developed. In fact, its focus in the opening chapters results in a particularly boring beginning to the book, although I confess that I was eventually caught up in the story and really wanted to learn whether or not either man would be successful in his wooing of the ladies.

The description of the ship Polychrest left me quite nonplused. Supposedly, she was an experimental ship built to carry a new, secret weapon--a ship-to-ship rocket. Considering the time setting of the novel, such an explanation is utterly incredible. The reader feels that Russ/O'Brian decided to experiment himself with inserting a bit of science fiction into his historical novel, but the two genres simply do not coexist smoothly, and the reader feels a sense of relief when the strange vessel finally sinks out of sight and, thankfully, out of mind.

Throughout the book, Russ/O'Brian employs a stylistic technique that is most disturbing until the reader becomes accustomed to it. The author frequently omits transitional narrative and compresses time, drawing separate scenes together with no transition whatsoever. For example, he may have Aubrey direct a seaman to call for the doctor, and in the very next sentence, he is addressing the doctor as though he had been standing beside him all along. There is no going to fetch the doctor. There is no approach by the doctor. The doctor is simply and immediately present. For another example, at one point we see the doctor preparing to perform surgery on a seaman, but never are we told why. What may have been wrong with the patient we never learn. This jarring and confusing technique of omitting explanatory or transitional detail does not appear in the preceding novel so we may conclude that it is more of Russ/O'Brian's experimentation--and it is a failed experiment that I hope not to see in the next book of the series. Perhaps we could describe it as a truncated style of writing, but it not a smooth one.

As soon as Aubrey and Maturin get back to sea, the action does pick up substantially, and the reader can almost forgive all of the land-based tedium with which the novel begins. There is surely enough swashbuckling adventure on the high seas to reward the reader for having persevered through the initial pages. The character of Maturin is also further developed, and we see a hitherto unknown side of him as a covert political agent as well as an unusually learned physician and naturalist. If one enjoyed MASTER AND COMMANDER, then he is very likely to enjoy most of POST CAPTAIN, yet I feel as though this second book is as experimental in its own way as was the Polychrest in hers. Let us hope that Russ/O'Brian will have gotten this urge to experiment out of his system by the next book, THE MAURITIUS COMMAND.

I'll keep it brief.......2007-07-08

Volumes have been written about this series. Some of them are worth reading and contemplating, useful derivatives of some of the best literature I have ever read.

In some ways this series is less entertainment than obsession. Also uplifting, educational, extremely funny, difficult, challenging. Amazing.

Disappointed with O'Brian's "Post Captain".......2007-06-25

I found Patrick O'Brian's "Post Captain" to be a plodding and literary "dense" read. I spent more time trying to decipher the archaic prose and search for sailing terminology definitions, then actually reading and enjoying the book. Also much of the "action" took place on land - another detraction from a high seas naval adventure. Much more readable and enjoyable are C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels that will transfer the reader to the age of "wooden ships and iron men" without the ponderous wording or having to master the British Seamanship Rules of Sailing Terminology.

Glad I borrowed O'Brian from the local library... and was not out any money! Beat to quarters... but steer clear of this one!

Splendid book, though not as strong as M&C.......2007-06-10

Post Captain again shows the excellence of O'Brian.
Master and Commanders unfortunate tag-line advertising for this book was 'Aubrey and Maturin vie for the affections of Diana Villiers.' While true, this by no means does justice to the book, and I approached it skeptically. At the opening, Aubrey and Maturin are living in the country, where entangled romance ensues. While I would rather read about broadsides or boarding, it is quite a stroke to take these two characters out of their natural setting, one that is done boldly and quite well.
Fortunately there is plenty of action to soothe those dissafected by the romance. Aubrey is on the run from debtors prison, and is given command of an ungainly and unusual ship that he must master and fight the French with, among other involvements.
Post Captain is a very strong book, though perhaps not as so enjoyable as Master and Commander, it was still a great read and one that does not dissapoint.

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Post Captain: Library Edition
Patrick O'Brian
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Patrick O'Brian
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The Eaglet in the Americas
John Mariner
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Release Date: 2006-07-06

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As the Seven Years War draws to an end Royal Navy Commodore Daniel Winchip is ordered to Canadian waters to meet what is left of the French threat. However, upon arrival, he finds the French defeated. Dispatched by Rear Admiral Saunders on a special mission along the North American coast, Winchip must lead his squadron on a hunt for a gang of slave-stealing pirates.

Along with his son-in-law Peter Pardoe, Winchip employs every reserve of strength and cunning to trap his enemy and free an imprisoned people.

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This first book in the Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Capt. Aubrey, & Stephen Maturin, Ship's surgeon & intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleoncic wars. Post Captain: "We've beat them before & we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, & Capt. Jack Aubrey, R.N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors' prison, from a possible mutiny, & pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Desolation Island: Commissioned to rescue Gov. Bligh of Bounty fame, Capt. Jack Aubrey & his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy-and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the under-manned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing wates of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes. The Fortune of War: Capt. Jack Aubrey, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the comand of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. The Thirteen Gun Salute: Capt. Jack Aubrey sets sail for the So. China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. Stephen Maturnin climbs the Thousand Steps ot the sacred crater of the orangutans: a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reed: and at the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelliegence agesnt sunfolds; the French envoys, well-entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maaturin.

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