If you enjoy adventure stories and don't fear having to have a guide to get you through (unless you're fluent in nautical terminology already), I'd recommend this book. I was really very disappointed because I think if a movie of this story was done correctly, it would be very interesting indeed.Overall, I'm glad to have read the book, despite how difficult I found it. The movie, which barely followed the book in any respect, was even more incomprehensible. I did watch the movie of this once I was over 3/4 of the way through the book, thinking that if I didn't get what was going on in the book, the movie could offer some enlightenment. Even his newly made best friend, Stephen Maturin, feels set apart from Jack on occasion. On the personal side, he feels set apart from everyone else, and has bad taste in women (or mainly one particular woman, but he doesn't seem too fussy). In those respects, Jack excels immensely. Jack seemed to come off as bit of a ruffian sort, kind of thick when it comes to everything other than commanding and sailing. There is a lot of interaction with a lot of different sorts of people. Overall, I thought the story, when I could understand what was going on, was pretty interesting. Basically this is a story of Jack Aubrey of the English Royal Navy in the 1800s during the war with France and his adventures in being commander of the good ship (sloop, maybe?) Sophie. I did pick up a companion guide called "A Sea of Words" which was helpful, but really, there was so much I didn't understand I would have had to stop reading every sentence to look stuff up. The nautical terminology used was like reading a foreign language.
Wow, this is one of the most difficult books I've read through to the end.
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