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Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:59:47 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
Not really piratical itself, but in the period and great fun for me was the
Hornblower saga: http://verax.home.mindspring.com/horatio.html
My interest always leaned to the more military side of things :-)
The recent English set of telemovies was pretty cool too, for those looking
for a taste of the life, and plenty of maritime moc inspiration (and now
available on DVD!): http://www.aande.com/tv/shows/horatio/
Richard
Still baldly going...
http://www.ozbricks.com/portblock/welcome.htm
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| (...) I agree whole heartedly Richard! The Hornblower stuff fits in great with Lego pirates! The telemovies were great inspiration for creating lego MOCs! Same goes for the recent "Mummy" pics for the Adventurers theme (but I'm getting off topic (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Soooo, anybody have any good recommendations? A decent read is Wilbur Smith's "Bird of Prey", or something like that. IIRC, it's set along the African Coast. My favorite is, by far, Tim Powers' "On Stranger Tides". I *love* this book, consider it (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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