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Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
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lugnet.pirates
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Sat, 1 Jun 2002 23:19:46 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Shaun Sullivan writes:
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> Soooo, anybody have any good recommendations?
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> A decent read is Wilbur Smith's "Bird of Prey", or something like that. IIRC,
> it's set along the African Coast.
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> My favorite is, by far, Tim Powers' "On Stranger Tides". I *love* this book,
> consider it head and shoulders above any other pirate story I've read (followed
> closely by Treasure Island, perhaps?), and I read it on average once every 18
> months or so. It's a tough book to find in a store, though - I think it's out
> of print. But if you can hunt it down, it's definitely worth the effort.
> Blackbeard, voodoo magic, and some nice historical tie-ins.
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> Any other suggestions from the crowd?
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> -s
Shaun,
I've always enjoyed "Howard Pyles Book of Pirates" for enjoyable reading.
His pictures are super too. He has another version of pirate stories
entitled "Tales of Pirates and Buccaneers"! I believe that there are some
stories repeated in the two books and some that are not. I hope this falls
under the catagory of "Contemporary"!
Tom
ps - I may check out your recommendation. I'm not familiar with it!
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