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Title: Hungry As The Sea by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0-312-97107-9 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (21 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing After 50 pages!
Comment: I actually never finished this one. Came recommended to me by a tug boat captain who started it while waiting for a dredge to fill up his hopper barge. I know how boring it can be steaming to and from the dumping grounds, especially at two knots, but a person would have to be lost on a deserted island to find this book even the slightest bit captivating. It starts out interesting enough, with some high stakes backstory about a captain going out on a financial limb to start his own salvage business, but it quickly degenerates into a cheap Hollywood actioner, complete with plastic characters and a forced romance to boot, which happens as soon as the main character reaches the antarctic to rescue a stricken cruise ship. If you ask me, you're better off with Jan De Hartog, Farley Mowatt, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and for more contemporary sea fare, David Poyer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Visit my Wilbur Smith page!
Comment: This book and the other 20+ books that Wilbur Smith has
written are incredible. I have a website dedicated to Smith
at www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/wilbur.html
If you are a big fan also please visit, and make sure you
e-mail me. This book is fantastic, a nonstop adventure
Rating: 4
Summary: my review
Comment: This book is the story of a man who wins back his fortune and life from very difficult circumstances. He faces incredible storms and temperatures to salvage a boat with passengers off the coast of Antartica. He next saves an oil tanker who is also carrying his ex-wife and son.
As usual, Wilbur Smith writes in excesive detail, but makes every scene, every place and situation seems very real. The characters are also very life-like and you warm up to them imediately.
If there was anything I could say against this book, it would be that the author seems to spend too much time describing every scene during the storms and salvages, when it is hard to follow because it gets very technical. Also, the ending is a little disappointing because after he has warmed you up to his ex-wife and son you are left not knowing what happens to them.
However, it is overall a very good book and always a pleasure to read a book that is entertaining, alive and written in such a complete way.
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Title: Cry Wolf by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312982585 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 09 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Diamond Hunters by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0449216144 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0449221032 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 31 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312993501 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eye of the Tiger by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312979398 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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