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A review by rafternorth
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
2.0
“In plain fact we were merely two young gentlemen in a seven-ton pleasure boat, with a taste for amateur hydrography and police duty combined”
Caruthers, bored out of his mind gets a letter from an old friend to do a bit of yachting with the possibility of duck shooting on the German Coast. What follows isn’t the simple holiday he had imagined.
Good god, I crawled in agony to finish this. It isn’t badly written, it’s just painfully boring. So much detail, but to me most of it didn’t do much to further the plot. That might be just me as I don’t know that much about boating or seafaring and there is a lot of that described in the book.
The actual “action” that took place also left much to be desired. I understand it’s 1903 and spy novels as we know them today were just beginning to take root, and I will give it some respect for that, that’s why I decided to finish the bloody thing, but I felt that there was no danger, the stakes weren’t high enough for me to really get into the story.
Rating: 1 & 1/2 Stars rounded up in respect to the literature’s place in history.
Caruthers, bored out of his mind gets a letter from an old friend to do a bit of yachting with the possibility of duck shooting on the German Coast. What follows isn’t the simple holiday he had imagined.
Good god, I crawled in agony to finish this. It isn’t badly written, it’s just painfully boring. So much detail, but to me most of it didn’t do much to further the plot. That might be just me as I don’t know that much about boating or seafaring and there is a lot of that described in the book.
The actual “action” that took place also left much to be desired. I understand it’s 1903 and spy novels as we know them today were just beginning to take root, and I will give it some respect for that, that’s why I decided to finish the bloody thing, but I felt that there was no danger, the stakes weren’t high enough for me to really get into the story.
Rating: 1 & 1/2 Stars rounded up in respect to the literature’s place in history.