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The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark Russell, Fiction, Horror, Action & Adventure by W. Clark Russell
rayn0n's review against another edition
4.0
Do you like dazzling sunbeams breaking through scintillating clouds, the heaving spray of seafoam in her mercurial bosom, and glistening prisms of iridescent ice? Long hours alone worrying over glaciers and gales and stripes of foreboding grey on the horizon and the possibility of losing the booty you stumbled on in a ship fifty years out of time? Then boy do I have a book for you!
Don't be fooled by the cover on this app, there is only one pirate and no sword fights.
In all honesty: it was a decent 19th c ghost story, it scratched that piratey-seafaring itch, but the experience of reading it out of a gorgeous 1890s edition was what really made it for me.
Don't be fooled by the cover on this app, there is only one pirate and no sword fights.
In all honesty: it was a decent 19th c ghost story, it scratched that piratey-seafaring itch, but the experience of reading it out of a gorgeous 1890s edition was what really made it for me.
jayshay's review against another edition
1.0
Yup, a popsicle pirate. Unfortunately, this former best-seller hasn't weathered time as well as the pirate does (at first). Seaman Paul Rodney isn't a very interesting character (passive and priggish) and the book didn't really hold my interest. It takes ten or eleven chapters to get to the pirate and these are not chapters filled with exciting events. When we finally do get a defrosted pirate he's almost as boring as Rodney. The secret of a pirate book is to delight in the depravity of these rascals of the sea -- author William Clark Russel will have none of that. As for the resolution, well all I can say is freezer-burn isn't much of a plot device. The rest of the book is Rodney working out, in excessive detail how to get his booty home. For a pirate book there is a distressing lack of fun here.
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I listened to this as a free download from Librivox (Well, I did skim listen some of the middle chapters.) There are multiple readers, but once I got past the first two chapters the volunteer narrators get better and it is read quite competently mostly by Barbara Derksen, though I think her French accent sort of drifts over into Russian -- all part of the charm of having regular people read.
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I listened to this as a free download from Librivox (Well, I did skim listen some of the middle chapters.) There are multiple readers, but once I got past the first two chapters the volunteer narrators get better and it is read quite competently mostly by Barbara Derksen, though I think her French accent sort of drifts over into Russian -- all part of the charm of having regular people read.
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