# Last book you bought? and why?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-book-you-bought-and-why/222225 "2004-01-02T04:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-book-you-bought-and-why/222225/61 "2004-01-03T06:23:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by racinchikki \*  
> \*\*Wow, look at my coding. I keep switching between here and LiveJournal and forgetting to change coding protocol.
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> The series is Master and Commander; Post Captain; HMS Surprise; The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War; The Surgeon’s Mate; The Ionian Mission; Treason’s Harbor; The Far Side of the World (which is the other book the movie was based on); The Reverse of the Medal; The Letter of Marque; The Thirteen-Gun Salute; The Nutmeg of Consolation; The Truelove (which was called Clarissa Oakes in England IIRC); The Wine-Dark Sea; The Commodore; The Yellow Admiral.
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> I don’t have that memorized, by the way; I looked it up in the frontispiece of my copy of M&C. \*\*

Your copy is missing the last two: _The Hundred Days_ and _Blue at the Mizzen_.

My last purchase was _Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster_ by Melissa Fay Greene. Springhill, in Nova Scotia, was one of the deepest coal mines in the world until it had a major collapse in 1958. It was right there in the remainder bin, so how could I pass up such a piece of Canadian history?

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