After wading through the absolute garbage inherent with the holiday season, we finally got spoiled for choice tonight. Harry Potter & The Philosopher's stone, part one of a very good sci fi mini series, The Andromeda Strain & HornBlower:The Even Chance on Prime. After much deliberation, I opted to watch the start of Harry Potty then swap over to HornBlower at 8.30. With Andromeda Strain, have read the book, seen the movie & probably got the tee shirt lurking somewhere.
For those that don't know, Even Chance is the first book in th HornBlower series written by C.S. Forester. They are set in the late 17th, early 18th century & involve lots of naval battles, gunpowder smoke personal conflicts & above all the triumph of said Horatio HornBlower. Was a good movie with plenty of gun battles at sea, & even the odd duel or two. All in all a relaxing way to spend an evening, blowing away the old Christmas cobwebs. The title is HornBlower's line after refusing to kill the dastardly senior midshipman who was the story baddy & challenged him to a duel. Good stuff it was..
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