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Like comstock lode, it contains a powerful event at the beginning of the book that foreshadows what’s coming. A reasonable bit of foreshadowing right there. It is a melancholy read but those tend to stick with you a little longer than the fairy tale e... Read More
Louis l'amour's merchant seaman is a seafaring adventure story about the men who sailed on a dangerous tanker around the time before wwii. The book chapters alternate between the diary of the second mate, john harlan who acts as the glue tying all the... Read More
This predates his pulp magazine work and yet foreshadows the pulp writer he would become. There was something familiar and comforting about his formulaic writing.
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Quality
This novel is unlike any of his others that i have read with the admission that i have not read his work exhaustively
I am also familiar with the area of oklahoma wherein he lived those few years so that is an added benefit for me to read of it
It was with the understanding that i would post a review on net galley goodreads amazon and my fiction book review blog
But for the avid l’amour reader it’s a great addition
Price
Harlan is an observer of human nature
Shipping
The descriptions are so good you can feel the water spray over the bow of the boat you can see the docks and picture how they a... Read More
”short chapters entries from “the private log of john harlan second mate” interject various observations about the ship’s the mission
Before the ship leaves dock some critical repairs are left incomplete
The ship seems to be incorrectly loaded with 80 thousand barrels of the explosive naphtha
Packaging/appearance
Gives an excellent picture of ship life on the high seas back in the 1930s
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- This product had a total of 772 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 4 2024.
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Could easily have been one of them judging by this early effort book
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In the first place the original authors contribution is now static limited to what was already written plus any notes and in the second the voice must of necessity change no matter how slightly to one informed by current events slang politics political correctness and any number of nuances simply not present at the time the original work was started
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Nonetheless the concept for the novel remains a relevant kernel around which to create so my approach to reading and enjoying it was for its own sake and on its own merits
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As explained in the preface this story was most likely louis’s first book it was never completely finished nor published and his son beau finished the book for us now
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My kindle read this book to me via bluetooth and there were several times i stopped just to go back and read it again because i didn’t want to miss anything
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That was one of the best parts of the book
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The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It could have been confusing with that many voices but it wasnt
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