tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682438184679769936.post7248774026726031269..comments2023-10-18T09:50:12.721-04:00Comments on Fresh-scraped Vellum - A blog devoted to historical and fantasy fiction: Pirates & the CaribbeanJoseph Finleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348233611003693635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682438184679769936.post-75174903971715827212012-07-19T00:43:13.915-04:002012-07-19T00:43:13.915-04:00I read Pirate Latitudes and came away feeling that...I read Pirate Latitudes and came away feeling that Crichton had only complete his first draft. I've read plenty of his works--as well as being a writer myself--and the normal feeling of depth was missing. As an outline for a movie, this works well enough, but as a finished novel, and from a renowned writer like Crichton, this fails just a bit. A good story, but only the bones without the flesh.<br />If you hunger for pirates, especially unusual pirate tales, try Jolly Roger and Dragons on Nook or Kindle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682438184679769936.post-76958911012197847692011-08-24T12:41:35.362-04:002011-08-24T12:41:35.362-04:00Long live The Dread Pirate Roberts! (The Princess...Long live The Dread Pirate Roberts! (The Princess Bride was a book before being a movie.) Crichton's Pirate Latitudes is the only full-length novel I have read about pirates, but I can recommend several short stories by Robert E. Howard in which Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane deal with pirates. Conan himself did a stint as a pirate captain along the Corsair coast. Separately, but related, there are, of course, many wonderful novel set at sea during the times of pirates, although not concerning pirates per se. These novels can satisfy the craving for sea-faring adventure, too.BJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368732448714328754noreply@blogger.com