Nothing much happens in the first half of The Ionian Mission, the eighth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series, and I must confess that that’s just the way I like it. My favorite film subgenre is the hangout movie, a la Barry Levinson’s Diner or Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some! These are the kinds of movies in which a group of likable characters …
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