If you haven't started reading all about Jack and Stephens expolits start to day. You will have firm friends by the end of book one. I have read and reread these tales and now liken them to a warm brew that you cosy up to on a cold winters night safe and secure in your abode. Each post will deal with a book in chronlogical order and hopefully inspire you to read or reread the book again and discuss.
These tales of tales are set in the Napoleonic wars held at sea at the turn of the centuary. O'Brian whose life work must surely be a novel of itself maintains that most if not all his information is garnered from the Royal navy's own documents of that era. This makes the expolits all the more fantatsic that they are based on fact with in some cases only the names or timescales changed.