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The opening salvo of the Aubrey-Maturin epic, in which the surgeon introduces himself to the captain by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. Fortunately for millions of readers, the two quickly make up. Then they commence one of the great literary voyages of our century, set against an immaculately-detailed backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This is the place to start--and in all likelihood, you won't be able to stop.
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Since Patrick O'Brian launched his series of historical novels with Master and Commander in 1970, millions of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin. O'Brian's prose, so immediate and yet so distinctly capturing the language and culture of the English navy in the first moments of the 19th century, rolls effortlessly off the tongue of actor Robert Hardy. Never for a second do we doubt that this is the way an English naval officer would have expressed himself in 1800, and that these are the sights, sounds, and emotions he encountered. As Aubrey sails his ship into battle, we don't need the sounds of cannon to share this moment with him; Hardy's voice is the ideal instrument. (Running time: 4.5 hours, three cassettes) --Lou Schuler
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3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hours
Read by Robert Hardy
Abridged
AudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship.
The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
"The best historical novels ever written..."
-The New York Times Book Review
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing Sea Story.......2007-06-13
I began this book prepared to like it, I really did. Actually, I was pre-reading it to see if it was suitable for my son. It is not.
First, let me say that this book is not for children. Certain topics of a sexual nature are routinely mentioned, indirectly. All of that action takes place off-stage or implicitly.
At the start, I was all for Captain Aubrey. I wanted to like him. After all, he is the hero of twenty more sequels. I tried to like him. I just couldn't. He is an obtuse, vain, vulgar, amoral jerk. His only real and true skill is in seamanship and the classical violin.
The author uses the immersion method to introduce his audience to the terms and jargon of early nineteenth-century navy seamanship. Nothing much is explained to us landlubbers, which makes following the copious sailing and battle descriptions a bit sketchy. I tended to gloss over at the mention of too many "stuns'ls" and "topgallantmasts."
There is a vein of anti-Catholicism which surfaces several times. Two characters are secret Catholics, and neither acquits himself heroically in that regard. One takes an oath against the Pope to obtain his commission; the other avoids revealing his true creed by turns of phrase and re-directing the conversation. Aubrey hates all Catholics (if he knows them to be so) and makes no bones about it. Of course, one would not expect to find pro-Catholic sentiment in His Majesty's Navy.
All of the technical jargon and religious differences aside, the story did mostly hold my interest. In the end, I was not satisfied with the resolution of the story. I am sure that is directly related to my dislike of the main character. I don't plan on pursuing any of the abundant sequels at present. I think I'll try the Midshipman Quinn: Collection (Bethlehem Budget Books) books next.
A Superb Book.......2007-06-10
Master and Commander sets a very high bar for the rest of the novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
O'Brian is a writer of immense qualities, and his ability to relate the intricacies of naval warfare in the beginning of the 19th century is both immersive and enjoyable. O'Brian does not start with a remarkable character, but builds him from the ground up, and builds up his friendship with Maturin as well. Viewers of the Master and Commander movie saw Aubrey in command of a ship of the line, but that is 10 books into the series, and at the start of this book Aubrey is a lieutenant without a ship.
The book is thoroughly laden with action, but it is a welcome break from the pattern that most authors assume of building to an immense action at the end of the book. O'Brian scatters action and excitement throughout, and there is still plenty of book left when the largest bit of action is done, and they are not boring pages to be skimmed till the finish.
Master and Commander is easily one of the best historical novels out there and one of the most enjoyable pieces of literature I have yet read. After reading this book, the next three came in quick succession, and I am sure the others will be soon to follow
So many wonderful things...........2007-05-30
I love this series - have read them all five or six times. There are many reviews that summarize the story of "Master and Commander" and indeed the many following books. I'd just like to highlight a few points.
About the early 19th century speech idiom and thought processes, so well captured by O'Brian: while these may present difficulty to those who aren't familiar with the writings of that time, they also represent a great opportunity. The O'Brian books are a delightful way to begin to appreciate the charm and subtleties of a long-gone way of life. Read Jane Austen for an appreciation of the overall social framework, for instance. Pick up on the strict codes that governed conduct: some perhaps too macho for today's taste, as where any insult to a gentleman - by a social equal, not by one of the "lower orders" - called for either an apology or a duel, the duel itself being a formal affair with each man having a "second" (a supporter) in attendance, the challenged one having choice of weapons. That's why, as Jack and Stephen leave that first concert, they coldly tell each other where they may be found, in the event of one deciding to "call out" the other. Also, later, when Jack is almost directly accused of cowardice (being "shy" in 18th/19th century idiom) by James Dillon, Stephen is depressed at the thought of two people he respects shaping up to fight each other.
Yet at the same time, note the courtesy in conversation: see the point early in the Aubrey-Maturin relationship where Jack holds back because he doesn't want to commit the rudeness of questioning a guest about personal matters. Stephen however picks up on the unspoken question and is happy to tell something of his life story, an indication of their growing mutual esteem.
Then, the technicalities of sailing ships - anyone today who has done some sailing should be able to grasp what's happening fairly readily, but admittedly readers from the prairie states may be on unfamiliar ground. (I confess to an unfair advantage, perhaps, with time in the Royal Navy - no, not in sailing ships! but there are many terms still common today.) The diagrams of a ship's rigging and sails, in the books, should help, and there are passages where O'Brian finds an excuse to give quite a good lesson in "the naming of parts." But isn't it a little strange that those who revel in action novels where every detail of modern weaponry is cataloged at length, should be unwilling to ride over the equally complex details of that wonderful creation, the fighting sailing ship, and just enjoy the story? You can always go back over the unfamiliar parts later in learning mode. Dictionaries are for the second time around.
The humor: there is so much of it! Word-play, especially Jack's malapropisms, of which there are many. Of course some rely on the reader already having a general knowledge background. Jack says someone is roaring "like a bull in a basin" - you have to recognize the Biblical misquote: "the bull of Bashan" (Psalms, 22:12-13; Amos 4:1). And also in Master and Commander, Jack's wonderfully mangled French lets him down, as so often, when he is told about the Catalan language and says it is a "putain" - Stephen has to gently correct him, the word for a dialect is "patois." Jack says he could swear the other is also a word, "I must have heard it somewhere" - well, since "putain" means prostitute, we (and Stephen) are left to speculate just where he heard it! Oh, those sailors when they get a run ashore... Then there are the sly puns - Jack had once been injured by a woman in Deal (a coastal town) hitting him with a smoothing-iron because she did not think her man should be *pressed* - the press-gang was the Navy's way of grabbing unwary landsmen and "pressing" them into Navy service whether they wanted it or not: but to *press* is also to iron clothes! I strongly suspect O'Brian was tempted to write that his wound was *dealt* him by a woman in Deal, but thought that would be overdoing it.
Another aspect of his word-play is the frequent use of favorite phrases that stem from other well-known authors. Every time we see the phrase "remote and ineffectual" we're reminded of Belloc's famously amusing poem (see Poetry Archives if it's unfamiliar). Incidentally, Belloc was a keen sailor. Then "Expense of spirit" is a phrase that surely has its most famous use in that Shakepeare sonnet. And more...and there are probably others that I'm missing because I'm not familiar with the source. But those that one recognizes are pleasant - a kind of sidelong glance from the author as if to say "Here's a little smile, if you're a reading person."
An inexhaustible treasure trove of riches. Enjoy!
Mastery.......2007-05-27
This is a great, readable novel sent on a wartime sailing vessel during the Napoleonic Wars. I have a love affair with this time period, and the sailing ships thereof, and this novel brought home the goods in both respects, conveying the realism of close quarters on a ship of war. In this case, I also learned something: how warships of that era managed their financing, so far from home. I may continue to explore the books in this series, from time to time.
When "Civilized War" Was Not a Complete Oxymoron.......2007-04-27
MASTER AND COMMANDER, the first of twenty complete novels and one unfinished volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, is a mixture of both pleasing and annoying elements, though I do believe that the earlier outweigh the latter. Set primarily on the high seas along the European coast with a few incursions onto English land, this historical novel portrays the adventures of the sloop "Sophie" as she battles the French and Spanish during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800s.
Pleasing elements include the very human traits of the character of Jack Aubrey, who has just risen from the rank of lieutenant to that of master and has been given his first command of a ship of war. The reader shares his mixed emotions, ranging from pride that comes from being called "Captain" to estrangement from crew mates that inevitably results from his position of supreme authority aboard ship to disappointment that his ship is merely a sloop and not a man-of-war. We see Aubrey's attempt to mimic the great fighting ships fail miserably as the cannons he has had mounted on her bow threaten to dismember her timbers with their recoil, and we feel his resignation as he has them returned to the shipyard. We also come to understand Aubrey's motivation, accurate for the time period, not to achieve memorable military victories but to enrich himself (with a paltry bit for his officers and crew) by capturing prizes such as merchant ships not under English protection. We are also privy to many of his foibles, which include his chagrin at catching a venereal disease from his high-ranking mistress who has obviously been a trifle too flirtatious in his absence.
A few other characters, including of course the second main protagonist of the novel, Dr. Stephen Maturin, are also well developed for the reader's enjoyment. Maturin is portrayed as a superb physician, an erudite student of nature, and a consummate wordsmith whose tongue is always ready with an appropriate Latin phrase or precise English locution for the topic at hand. He is also versed in Catalan and can correct Aubrey's poor attempts at French. In medicine, Maturin is a miracle worker, able to repair a depressed skull fracture by removing the top of a sailor's skull and resuscitating a drowned midshipman. Maturin's skills may strain credulity, but his naivety at all things naval or military is endearing.
Actually, my favorite character portrayal is that of the pederast mate who adores Aubrey, who in turn is oblivious to the nature of the man's devotion and sees him merely as a loyal and able seaman. This particular example tells us much of Aubrey's innocence and ignorance of many facets of life, his incredible luck as a ship's master notwithstanding, and of Maturin's vocabulary since it is he who describes the man as a "pederast."
In addition to character portrayals, one of the strongest elements of the book is the picture it gives us of the nature of European marine warfare at the beginning of the 19th century. It is portrayed as a strange mixture of utter barbarity, with chains shot from cannons eviscerating sailors, and of gentile manners with victorious captains entertaining their captive equivalents with sumptuous meals and gentlemanly conversation. For officers, at least, if one was not cut down by a cannon ball, warfare was more or less a civilized pursuit in which capture, release upon parole, and eventual formal exchange was the understood procedure. This concept of "civilized warfare" is nearly surreal when contrasted with the impersonal ravaging of modern wars and forces one to think that perhaps civilization has retreated from a higher state of two centuries ago. In any event, the historical picture is a valuable one.
To the novel's discredit, its author throws technical terms about willy-nilly, and if one is not conversant with the architecture, sails and rigging of a late 18th to early 19th century sailing ship, the significance of quite a few orders being issued from the quarterdeck will be lost upon the reader. Neither is the tendency to overawe the reader with linguistic oddities limited to seafaring terms. Aubrey comes out with British colloquialisms now and then ("I'm clemmed."), and words such as "tremontana" occur with some regularity. Having a large dictionary at hand when reading MASTER AND COMMANDER is almost a necessity. There are also spots in which the story line is broken by skips in chronology, and the reader must reconstruct in his mind the missing intervening events that brought the characters to their present situations; this becomes more evident near the end of the book, as if the author were rushing to a conclusion and leaving out bits and pieces here and there. In this regard, a few references pop up for which the reader has not been prepared, such as a mention late in the book to the Sophie's four lunatics-to which the reader has never been introduced before.
Considering both the strengths and weaknesses in the novel, I must conclude that I am far from agreeing with a New York Times book reviewer that the Aubrey/Maturin series are "the best historical novels ever written." Their predecessors, the Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester, are surely of equivalent if not of higher quality, although each is shorter and may lack some of the complexity of character development found in the Aubrey/Maturin stories. Still, MASTER AND COMMANDER has been a fairly captivating read and has inspired me to proceed to the next novel in the series. If one has enjoyed Forester's Hornblower series, he will enjoy O'Brien's novels as well, for they are very similar in genre. However, if one is approaching this particular type of historical novel for the first time, may I suggest that Forester may prove a better read than O'Brian?
"O'Brian," by the way, is an assumed name for a somewhat ne'er-do-well Englishman actually named Richard Patrick Russ (1914-2000), whose own life is interesting if perhaps somewhat unenviable. Readers interested in knowing more about the author may find the biography PATRICK O'BRIAN: A LIFE REVEALED by Dean King to be a valuable study.
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The ailing Duke of Rochester finds himself on his death bed with no legitimate heirs. Concocting a plan to 'legitimize' them all upon his death, he instructs his butler extraordinaire, Reeves, to find the duke's unsanctioned children and "civilize" them.
Reeves's first assignment is the duke's oldest illegitimate son, wounded–war–hero–one–time–pirate Tristan Llevanth. Wounded after the Battle of Trafalgar, Tristan sits in his gloomy house and waits for life to pass him by. Unfortunately, his bothersome neighbor, the delectable widow Prudence, has other plans. Reeves wants to mold him into a real duke while Prudence wants Tristan to keep his wandering sheep on his own property. Tristan, for his part, wished to do neither. When Reeves notices a flair of interest in Tristan's eyes whenever the now–destitute Prudence is about, he hires the lady on the spot to teach Tristan the manners he so sadly needs.
Lessons turn into kisses which turn into a hot searing passion that even the threat of losing a fortune cannot disrupt. And eventually, Tristan realizes that in love, as in all things, if one needs the answer, all one must do is just ask Reeves.
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WEAK!!!.......2007-09-30
I really loved the story line... there was so much potential, so much bought up that never went any were... I was soooo let down!
Cheerful But Average Story.......2007-07-15
The late Earl of Rochester sent his efficient butler Reeves to find his two illegitimate twin sons, Tristan and Christian, who disappeared when they were ten years old when there mother was arrested for treason. The Earl knew he was dying without a legitimate heir so he sends Reeves out to find and civilize his sons. The eldest son, Tristan was pressed into merchant service as a youth and then later became a pirate and then war hero, fighting alongside Nelson himself. Tristan now is retired living in a cottage with a war injury and his retirement nestegg is being slowly depleted because all of his old crew have come to live with him having nowhere else to go. When Reeves tracks him down and tells him if he is willing to become a gentlemen to impress the trustees he can have the title and a fortune which will ensure the welfare of his men for their entire lives. Tristan struggles with his decision not wanting anything of his father because he did not help their mother or his brother and him but he relents knowing that the funds will help his men. He is also intrigued to find that his brother is alive and Reeves knows where to find him. Reeves enlists the help of Prudence, a widow living next door, to help teach Tristan manners. Tristan is wildly attracted to the widow and she to him, but she knows that nothing can come of a relationship because her late husband was part of a money scandal before he died and nobody in society would accept her. As they begin the tutoring, Tristan and Prudence give into their physical attraction, but will it be enough to make it.
This story was not bad, it was just average. I would have liked to known more about the other illegitimate children that the Earl had besides Tristan and Christian also. It never seems like you really get to know much about the characters, just that something is missing from this story. Its not bad, its just missing that extra special element that makes a book so hard to put down.
I'm ambivalant............2007-06-04
While I found the cutesy title of the book a bit too saccharine -I decided to give it a try anyway as I've read good reviews for the authors previous books.
This first book in a series started very well with an intriguing back story about twin brothers who were born on the "wrong side of the sheet" to an earl and who find themselves orphaned at 10 when there mother dies in prison-wrongly accused of treason.
Fast forward to chapter 2-20+ years later to the story of Tristian and Penelope. The book left me ambivalent-while there were parts of "clarity" within the book-between the main characters and secondary characters-it was too often seasoned with choppy, far fetched and repetitive writing as to make the book hard to get through.
Overall the book seems hastily put out, and very poorly edited (I found several obvious grammatical errors, misspellings and even one twin being referred to as the other!)
While I loved the fact that the H/H are older, and experienced from other relationships-I didn't like the authors tendency to keep having their inner dialog go over yet again why they could not marry-when the reasoning was not even plausible to begin with.
The ending of the story is 360 degrees from what the characters were trying to accomplish throughout the book and made for an immature, silly end.
I'm trying the other twins story right now and I hope it will be better than this one.For those like me with limited book budgets- I would only recommend this book used or from the library.
3 stars.
Nobody should have to read dialog this stupid.......2007-03-30
The very first scene between Pru and Tristan contains some very forced, contrived, dialog. Then a few chapters later, their sex scene even contains forced, contrived, and ill-timed dialog.
This story has a great premise. There is tempting sub-plot potential with his twin brother, but it falls flat. Maybe it is too much of a stretch that Tristan's country neighbor, with the sheep in her front yard, is also the high-born lady that he feels he's not cultured enough for.
But for me the show-stopper was the absolute lack of nuance in this story. You can see immediately where it is going from the opening scene, and that makes it not worth reading.
Not terribly interesting.......2006-12-21
The Earl of Rochester died without a legitimate male heir, but he tried to correct this by manipulating the facts regarding his illegitimate sons. He then charged his butler, Reeves, to find and shape the most likely son to be the new Earl.
First son is Tristan Llevanth, an ex-pirate diamond in the rough, but all around good chap who is busy caring for his former subordinates and having tussles with his neighbour. This is, of course, the love interest - widowed Patience Thistlethwaite.
All is set for Patience and Reeves to push, pull and drag Tristan into the shape of an Earl.
This sounds interesting in the usual way, but it's not. The whole premise of the English laws of inheritance is manipulated into oblivion.
Alas, I could not help but compare this to a far finer book using the same idea of a father trying to redress the law of primogeniture to his preference - "Mr Scarbourough's Family" by Anthony Trollope. Possibly not a fair comparison, but the plot immediately called it to mind.
It's not a bad book, just not terribly good. The characters go through the motions. Neither hero nor heroine catch hold of the reader's sympathy.
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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
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Patrick O'Brian Fan..........2007-09-18
I have read this series of books and listened to them on tape and now I am getting them on cd so I can rip them to the computer and sync them to my mp3 player which is easier to carry around my neck as I work. When I listen to these stories it makes watering the trees a bit more interesting. If you haven't read this series I highly recomend you start if you want to be totally entertained by the wonderful cast of characters.
Happy O'Brian fan.......2007-06-26
It's been a decade since I read the books, so this time around I am listening to them. The production is first rate and I am enjoying the book as though I'd never read it. Joy!
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- Great book, would have made a better movie than the one out.
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Great book, would have made a better movie than the one out........2004-04-08
This book would have made a great movie on its own. They borrowed the titles from two books. They should have stuck with the series verbatem.
The book kept my interest. Even with the very technical descriptions of the sailing terms it was hard to stop listening. The heavy verbose english takes about 1 disk to get used to, but once you do, you will sink right into it.
Highly recommended for sailors or historians.
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is tenseand unexpected in its culmination. Meanwhile in Paris, Diana Villiers anxiously awaits Maturins safe return.
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navys blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.
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The fascinating story behind one of the most highly anticipated movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
Peter Weir's astonishing film brings Patrick O'Brian's world to life, complete with its swashbuckling adventures, brilliantly drawn characterization, romance, and intrigue. It is sure to captivate stalwart enthusiasts of O'Brian's work as well as draw in new fans everywhere. With unique access to the cast and crew, Tom McGregor traces the project, from the actors' boot camp to the filming in the Galapagos Islands and on board a replica ship (in the same studio where Titanic was filmed).
With exclusive photographs and interviews with key members of the cast, including Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind), and director Peter Weir (Dead Poets' Society, Green Card, The Truman Show), this book records the painstaking work of the crew and stars in making the film as historically accurate as possible, from replicating the uniforms of Nelson's navy to bringing the gun deck of the Surprise incredibly to life. Exclusive behind-the-scenes insight and information on the history of the project are dazzlingly showcased in this unique companion, featuring the same high production standards and imagination as the film itself. 200 color photographs.
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Can't Stop Reading It!.......2007-03-20
My dad loves Master and Commander (and so do I), so I got him this book for Christmas. He loves it and said it was his favorite present this year! He says he's also reading the books by Patrick O'Brian (the author of the books that inspired this movie) and he said he sometimes goes back to this book for reference after reading the novels.
This book is divided into sections - stuff about the crew, the doctor, the captain, etc. It has quotes from the actors and stuff about the novels and the author.
Well, all I can say is my dad loves this book and is still looking at it from Christmas and I look at it all I can. If you love the Master and Commander movie, you'll love this book!
A Fan's Dream Come True!!!.......2006-06-26
If you love the O'Brian series and the movie, this book is not only full of colour photos but also contains much information about the movie and its actors. Any interested in the 19th century British Royal Navy will find it intersting, also. A great book!!!
An excellent look behind the scenes.......2005-11-18
I'm a great fan of O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels and of Napoleonic era naval fiction in general, and I looked forward to this film with a certain apprehension. I mean, how could they possibly do justice to O'Brian's extremely detailed world? Would they just crank out a superficial action film? I'm not sure any devotée was entirely pleased with the result, but it was, in fact, a pretty damn good movie. And all the background information and photos in this book help explain why. Peter Weir, the director, was a fanatic on accurate historical detail, including small items you never see on camera (but the crew knows they're there). He kept the entire cast together for the full five months of filming at the big tank in Baja, the same way a ship's crew would be together every day of their lives. And he instituted hierarchy (with Russell Crowe at the top, naturally) even during the "boot camp" phase at the beginning of the project. And on and on. A fascinating look behind the scenes and into the minds of all the people responsible for the film. I winced every time they talked about the "cannon," though.
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